Lazarus Archive · LZ-34214

Halftone Tide

Northern Brigade, 1990. Demo for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A demo for the ZX Spectrum by Northern Brigade, first shown at Riverstead Byte Fest in 1990.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2021. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8faa8874b1d34f6d41b8b55fdafbdb9de45f1434e0d2534386b32096b3d5bed1
Last verified
Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ZXS-6 · 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.

Cite as: Northern Brigade, Halftone Tide (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34214.

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