Lazarus Archive · LZ-32268

NimbusTools

Foxglove Software, 2002. Application software for RISC OS.

Description

A file manager for RISC OS, written by Foxglove Software for home users.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All files were recovered; 29 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5b40c5660abde16b89c99ae2b40efa121b0a0c92d3687a691a2186a605e2ab2a
Last verified
Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-RISCOS-4 · lz-arm2 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-RISCOS-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on RISC OS.

Cite as: Foxglove Software, NimbusTools (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32268.

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