Lazarus Archive · LZ-19911

Dither Heart

Spectral Arts, 1986. Demo for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A 8-kilobyte intro for the Amstrad CPC by Spectral Arts, released at Upper Valley Compo in 1986.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘Master’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d19806cc4be04a1dc23cad0e9974fbff1333c0784b79a85eddb0bb8f4eda488a
Last verified
Oct 7, 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.

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: Spectral Arts, Dither Heart (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19911.

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