Lazarus Archive · LZ-03561

Reading Castle

Midland Schools Software Unit, 1997. Educational software for Windows 3.x.

Description

Classroom software for Windows 3.x, written by Midland Schools Software Unit for ages 5 to 7.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
6e82bb7e07f4144814dc48da0bb6f8b1db2016870325084c20c5ba1faf443d23
Last verified
Sep 15, 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: Midland Schools Software Unit, Reading Castle (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03561.

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