Lazarus Archive · LZ-21548

Weather Island

Nguyen Educational, 1995. Educational software for MS-DOS.

Description

Classroom software for MS-DOS, written by Nguyen Educational for ages 5 to 7.

Provenance

Deposited by Longhaven Bay Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
90d7ae7a907c4b179c27b333fa57fd4f864128605d59710abe12b6230bd3c356
Last verified
Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Nguyen Educational, Weather Island (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21548.

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