Lazarus Archive · LZ-16843

Bitplane Weather

Nova Collective, 1982. Demo for the Commodore 64.

Description

A demo for the Commodore 64 by Nova Collective, first shown at Tri-County Compo in 1982.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
69280895e5319a3244bcf74601699d63183fba982fde737b2cd98cfce6290a41
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: Nova Collective, Bitplane Weather (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16843.

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