Lazarus Archive · LZ-30838

Raster Tide

Parallax Design, 1982. Demo for the Commodore 64.

Description

A demo for the Commodore 64 by Parallax Design, first shown at Amberbrook Springs Byte Fest in 1982.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d84c2515ca46d72bc16fc8582338d433575ff8992e9660810daef5bf039e2172
Last verified
Sep 22, 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.

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: Parallax Design, Raster Tide (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30838.

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