Lazarus Archive · LZ-06104

Orchid Script 1.6

Price & Rowe, 1993. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A word processor for the BBC Micro, written by Price & Rowe for home users.

Provenance

Deposited by Lowland Retro Computing Society in 2003. Mould on three disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. About 66 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b134fde2d2b9e82a7745ba26deb6466350c125fa4ac8e9bf15459771cacbec81
Last verified
Oct 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Price & Rowe, Orchid Script 1.6 (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06104.

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