Lazarus Archive · LZ-28647

Weather Rescue

East Duncrest Educational Software, 1982. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

Educational software for ages 7 to 11, published by East Duncrest Educational Software in 1982.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2018. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. About 66 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9ed4027f5137810c29ca793c04e4aa9028b597569335bd482394c0223dea56dd
Last verified
Oct 29, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: East Duncrest Educational Software, Weather Rescue (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28647.

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