Description
A demo for the Amstrad CPC by Phosphor Arts, first shown at Coastal Compo in 1984.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Greenharrow and passed to Lazarus. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fd1157a521520abe0034f5a229f44bbfe3f05144a0d7285c5a1662bd9c9076db- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Phosphor Arts, Blitter Garden (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22803.