Description
A phonics program for ages 7 to 11, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All files were recovered; 24 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
db12812e0b5722125b8e6fce94dad70d45f68178d1eb03773be2aac11b370fee- Last verified
- Oct 13, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 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-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.
Cite as: North Thornford Educational Software, Phonics Island (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00230.