Lazarus Archive · LZ-22709

Sprite Weather

Static Systems, 1987. Demo for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A demo for the Amstrad CPC by Static Systems, first shown at East Northleigh Byte Fest in 1987.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
151f47f14bc5c3ff5965c56e2516cddc27103a3d46126242cfb5e8d5b2fa3d0a
Last verified
Sep 23, 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: Static Systems, Sprite Weather (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22709.

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