Description
A demo for the Amstrad CPC by Echo Society, first shown at Granite Coast Compo in 1988.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9e02e4ba9fc50ceb647bf7ef9e1e82fa7c63d8f0659e6c104b40cdf87ed799c9- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-CPC-5 · lz-z80 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-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.
Cite as: Echo Society, Blitter Weather (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04409.