Description
A demo for the Commodore 64 by Cathode Squad, first shown at Upper Valley Compo in 1982.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
33b7318cdaa761e050a4e4ca3022cc58d3970f4affbfde4a9d36a00687122f85- Last verified
- Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-C64-9 · lz-6510 core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-C64-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Commodore 64.
Cite as: Cathode Squad, Glow Waltz (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03324.