Lazarus Archive · LZ-26880

Plover Basic

Nakamura Interactive, 1986. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A programming language for MS-DOS, sold to universities by Nakamura Interactive.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Riverstead. The label, written in marker, reads ‘Version that works’. All files were recovered; 44 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
46f402b57906adac4222a3f807be779ff684a1c633fbaf3cf04341f4292d5d2c
Last verified
Oct 10, 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: Nakamura Interactive, Plover Basic (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26880.

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