Lazarus Archive · LZ-15008

Astrid De Vries: music modules

Astrid De Vries, 1985. Sound recording for MS-DOS.

Description

97 music modules composed on MS-DOS and shared on bulletin boards and disk magazines.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Six disks; two read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All files were recovered; 34 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a621615abf944bc81d1f2d7da3f930dc882f7626d52794af11feca370abc2f87
Last verified
Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Astrid De Vries, Astrid De Vries: music modules (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15008.

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