Description
A demo for the Commodore 64 by Parallax Crew, first shown at Bramwater Party in 1991.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
12ce6a2ab8fb2387234d0ccee6f807cc31c93f45ac43e5fe703b943b0101908f- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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: Parallax Crew, Palette Rain (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10963.