Description
A demo for MS-DOS by Analog Labs, first shown at Highfold Assembly Hall party in 1983.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2016. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
aa9740fad3e7731949706ed06146587d9644320610688cbd252d3646b0729768- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Analog Labs, Fade Postcard (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24628.