Lazarus Archive · LZ-10188

Fade Machine

Orbital Collective, 1994. Demo for the Commodore 64.

Description

A demo for the Commodore 64 by Orbital Collective, first shown at Wolffield Party in 1994.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 86 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
00304c328f1fb3b54be6e68ab6c066e2fb4ea1a35cbe19894b0454edf85b7220
Last verified
Sep 19, 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: Orbital Collective, Fade Machine (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10188.

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