Lazarus Archive · LZ-00808

Weather Detective

Three Rivers Schools Software Unit, 1988. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

Educational software for ages 8 to 12, published by Three Rivers Schools Software Unit in 1988.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in North Coldport. The label reads ‘Master’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
010b17783769386473dad1c5469173aad0e0a634eb34bc870b1946c11d7fb91f
Last verified
Oct 8, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Three Rivers Schools Software Unit, Weather Detective (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00808.

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