Lazarus Archive · LZ-24667

Halftone Machine

Nova Society, 1991. Demo for the Commodore 64.

Description

A demo for the Commodore 64 by Nova Society, first shown at the Willowridge Falls Gathering in 1991.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Mould on two disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. About 56 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e75e869a0ccf87ea84bb1a6a9c40ea0ff288a72bcb132bd87bdaf073c4d03909
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-C64-9 · lz-6510 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-C64-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Commodore 64.

Cite as: Nova Society, Halftone Machine (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24667.

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