Lazarus Archive · LZ-25786

KestrelShell 1.6

Pike Interactive, 1982. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A file manager for the BBC Micro, published by Pike Interactive in 1982.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Sandwick and passed to Lazarus. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
442414f0e94ccadaabb871e5b4c8a2a29d49abf60eca7568b67bc5562493de2d
Last verified
Oct 16, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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: Pike Interactive, KestrelShell 1.6 (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25786.

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