Lazarus Archive · LZ-27821

Aster Basic

Egret Computing, 1995. Application software for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

A programming language for Windows 95 and 98, published by Egret Computing in 1995.

Provenance

Deposited by Harbour Region Software Preservation Group, which had held it unread for years. The label, written in marker, reads ‘Recipes’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d9eeb18a2134b4070e87abb0b5d98b9fc9d554d003c6f3bde50bc9508d603928
Last verified
Sep 7, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN9X-9 · 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-WIN9X-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 95 and 98.

Cite as: Egret Computing, Aster Basic (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27821.

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