Lazarus Archive · LZ-00021

Phonics Safari

Ashholt Educational Software, 1985. Educational software for MS-DOS.

Description

Classroom software for MS-DOS, written by Ashholt Educational Software for secondary pupils.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Eastcrest and passed to Lazarus. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
890bef268345466f9c9700aa57acc3b13c66a5f7c1b346900a426f7a4e0accb0
Last verified
Oct 27, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Ashholt Educational Software, Phonics Safari (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00021.

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