Description
A demo for Atari 8-bit computers by Polar Systems, first shown at Pineford Falls Party in 1982.
Provenance
Deposited by Greenport Bay Radio Amateurs’ Society. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. About 63 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1909f85d499a7bf6412d9e2751acfdf5d63abcfd12654cb6a8ea8739d1b59651- Last verified
- Oct 6, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · lz-6502 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Polar Systems, Scanline Reverie (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16908.