Description
A weather program for ages 8 to 12, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6b965cd57254e5db51f67181a5eaa9de7eec08e0b59616d8390261f75ad1cab8- 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. 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: Vega Educational, Weather Circus (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32557.