Lazarus Archive · LZ-20654

Voxel Heart

Kinetic Squad, 1981. Demo for MS-DOS.

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.

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