Lazarus Archive · LZ-40100

Ardent Sketch

Brookmont Software, 2004. Application software for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

A paint program for Windows 95 and 98, sold to illustrators by Brookmont Software.

Provenance

Deposited by East Birchcombe Library and Archives in 2025. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
97ab4efec6ca7c94b34265cb437f0e426ef33a0193f7677ebab0ef80294690fb
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN9X-9 · lz-x86 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-WIN9X-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 95 and 98.

Cite as: Brookmont Software, Ardent Sketch (2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40100.

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