Lazarus Archive · LZ-03252

Aster Sketch 3.2

Fernwater Software, 1990. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A paint program for the BBC Micro, sold to home users by Fernwater Software.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in East Redby and passed to Lazarus. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b8848b0b952696dae8eabfa828e930c32dfed465a42f1b75bec3f6e81f2706a1
Last verified
Oct 23, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Fernwater Software, Aster Sketch 3.2 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03252.

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