Lazarus Archive · LZ-23881

CalderPen

Corvid Software, 1991. Application software for the Amstrad CPC.

Description

A word processor for the Amstrad CPC, written by Corvid Software for home users.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The label reads ‘Don’t lend’. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5857fd012c66e1c5ec3294d64112135208aeb45acd91f34d765f5b42810c7ba9
Last verified
Oct 23, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPC-5 · lz-z80 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-CPC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Amstrad CPC.

Cite as: Corvid Software, CalderPen (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23881.

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