Description
A planet program for ages 8 to 12, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
11811379dd0d7e7aba80a03d0eaaa0453fc6588fcb5552805a2c431c76141b94- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Stonehaven Springs Educational Software, Planet Island (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15862.