Description
A demo for the Amstrad CPC by Cathode Arts, first shown at the Cedarwater Bay Gathering in 1990.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1b533d1222bf52becb40695e17633f0a4bceca27f3035944ef6d30da6662746d- Last verified
- Oct 27, 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: Cathode Arts, Vector Dreams (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07549.