Lazarus Archive · LZ-17623

Basalt Brush

Ashport Falls Software, 1981. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A paint program for IBM mainframes, sold to illustrators by Ashport Falls Software.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Larkstead Radio Amateurs’ Society. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b291a61a8b7e2b2f2f075ec44755fd0ba80bed922a11216f2c58831ec1071a39
Last verified
Sep 14, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.

Cite as: Ashport Falls Software, Basalt Brush (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17623.

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