Lazarus Archive · LZ-30903

Dither Bloom

Fractal Design, 1989. Demo for Atari 8-bit computers.

Description

A 4-kilobyte intro for Atari 8-bit computers by Fractal Design, released at High Plains Compo in 1989.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Four disks; two read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d2826630e7ec2f0716874df606488a062209d083db3f7fdb779bb5b42e5d7935
Last verified
Oct 2, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ATARI8-5 · lz-6502 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.

Cite as: Fractal Design, Dither Bloom (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30903.

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