Description
A demo for MS-DOS by Kinetic Squad, first shown at Wolfby Byte Fest in 1981.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b2cd20be5741f3ff0ee2be968b10c6fe69e970e6ee7a31b849563355d6436160- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Kinetic Squad, Voxel Heart (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20654.