Lazarus Archive · LZ-30049

VantageForth

Shaw & Byrne, 1992. Application software for the Apple II.

Description

A programming language for the Apple II, sold to schools by Shaw & Byrne.

Provenance

Deposited by Cedarwater Bay Computer Club, from its own collections. Three disks; two read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3b86d9600527c990507409fed4c61abb265a55f14884b4201eedfc13512d975f
Last verified
Oct 7, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.

Cite as: Shaw & Byrne, VantageForth (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30049.

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