Lazarus Archive · LZ-21751

Rainforest Quest

Northwind Learning, 1988. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A rainforest program for ages 8 to 12, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘Photos’. All files were recovered; 56 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
26e8dcfcac5b52cbbac7a70b9b7b0e2673d2bd991c970d70560dab8af99fc2e5
Last verified
Sep 7, 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: Northwind Learning, Rainforest Quest (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21751.

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