Description
A demo for Atari 8-bit computers by Northern Lights, first shown at North Sandmere Party in 1984.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Eastdale Bay. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5a2e491360c027f527008519c465dd165d1f5b33f643f3117cf12adf7eb9d30a- 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: Northern Lights, Interlace Rain (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07482.