Lazarus Archive · LZ-01902

WhimbrelBasic

Saltgate Harbour Software, 1994. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

A programming language for Windows 3.x, sold to universities by Saltgate Harbour Software.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All files were recovered; 41 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1eb5aa80b8e2af543dded7c2bd4c5964fc76fd3b270fad9176e716cb24265190
Last verified
Oct 13, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Saltgate Harbour Software, WhimbrelBasic (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01902.

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