Lazarus Archive · LZ-19477

OrchidBasic

Quill Software, 2003. Application software for feature phones.

Description

A programming language for feature phones, sold to hobbyists by Quill Software.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. About 91 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9cebe3e49a4c3176026da5c4f6538e51a1a6fea2ac4d00c81677d1d44caf1c0a
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-JME-3 · lz-jvm 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-JME-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on feature phones.

Cite as: Quill Software, OrchidBasic (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19477.

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