Lazarus Archive · LZ-01875

Beacon Basic 1.4

Tariq Bakker, 1990. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

A programming language for Windows 3.x, published by Tariq Bakker in 1990.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. All files were recovered; 51 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3c82787ef0cfb166b2372cfbcb80e9dc0e12951b424345967f0b21a5b93c3e50
Last verified
Oct 12, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN3-6 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.

Cite as: Tariq Bakker, Beacon Basic 1.4 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01875.

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