Lazarus Archive · LZ-04584

Clock Island

Port Whitebrook Educational Software, 1981. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

Classroom software for the BBC Micro, written by Port Whitebrook Educational Software for secondary pupils.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 73 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a69663967a664a6c684d041dedd96ffa0002fbb3b4af685295b20aac8bb6de18
Last verified
Sep 16, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: Port Whitebrook Educational Software, Clock Island (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04584.

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