Description
A demo for Atari 8-bit computers by Prism Crew, first shown at the Larkworth Gathering in 1980.
Provenance
Deposited by Port Saltwater Computer Club in 2003. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2d9dfecaa542b73f8ff297e05a99113627d952a31f84b0ee372b083ebd2ae02d- Last verified
- Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · lz-6502 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Prism Crew, Scroller Theory (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06455.