Description
A demo for the Amstrad CPC by Nova Arts, first shown at Redport Falls Byte Fest in 1986.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2014. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4caebf48b7d92bcdcc9a2f04613f5c4f86a91283f84030c7e02d7972f1745c55- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-CPC-5 · lz-z80 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-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.
Cite as: Nova Arts, Scroller Season (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17088.