Lazarus Archive · LZ-38922

Scanline Bloom

Nova Design, 1989. Demo for MS-DOS.

Description

A 16-kilobyte intro for MS-DOS by Nova Design, released at Goldmere Party in 1989.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 80 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
cd28c28ccfab3535a1dcdb9ac83e53ccd7f9470f3861c02a234a9bedd8d90043
Last verified
Sep 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Nova Design, Scanline Bloom (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38922.

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