Lazarus Archive · LZ-11068

Volcano Fair

Fraser Educational, 1984. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A volcano program for secondary pupils, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Kingscrest and passed to Lazarus. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All files were recovered; 8 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0349a696324607ea7c1d918ca973e4a65194be044950362702feb9e68543dbb1
Last verified
Oct 15, 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.

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: Fraser Educational, Volcano Fair (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11068.

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