Lazarus Archive · LZ-39756

Rotozoom Machine

Silicon Collective, 1993. Demo for MSX computers.

Description

A demo for MSX computers by Silicon Collective, first shown at Rockhallow Byte Fest in 1993.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2025. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. About 83 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
633acc211a32a10e552c34631d5796daf2c3261f237cb0d378c585210fc25154
Last verified
Oct 18, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MSX-4 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.

Cite as: Silicon Collective, Rotozoom Machine (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39756.

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