Lazarus Archive · LZ-32157

Planet Fair 4

Midland Schools Software Unit, 1983. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

Educational software for ages 7 to 11, published by Midland Schools Software Unit in 1983.

Provenance

Deposited by Larkvale Harbour College Library in 2021. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d7c11bf88a2b6830570d566cb966d873b6deda558150705ab23e75d2de79dd24
Last verified
Sep 16, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Midland Schools Software Unit, Planet Fair 4 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32157.

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