Lazarus Archive · LZ-29146

RelayForth

Heronsoft, 1987. Application software for the Commodore 64.

Description

A programming language for the Commodore 64, written by Heronsoft for universities.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fb4c5b790589cef71c73c694a48c413c96516509800becf89a9369db3cafeacf
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-C64-9 · lz-6510 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-C64-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Commodore 64.

Cite as: Heronsoft, RelayForth (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29146.

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