Description
A demo for MS-DOS by Silicon Squad, first shown at Bayside Compo in 1999.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All files were recovered; 44 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b0c0ba8d96bdec5732938856ef13a18a9e0cf0ed1adee6161ac9258fcc2b4702- Last verified
- Sep 15, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.
Cite as: Silicon Squad, Parallax Theory (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20239.