Lazarus Archive · LZ-09448

Bitplane Tide

Nova Society, 1983. Demo for the Commodore 64.

Description

A demo for the Commodore 64 by Nova Society, first shown at Lowland Compo in 1983.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Coldford Springs. Contacts were cleaned before reading. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9751df1a753558df6a42fb85a08b18873ec7331f2f4e03d696718610663c94ea
Last verified
Sep 11, 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: Nova Society, Bitplane Tide (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09448.

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