Description
A disk utility for the ZX Spectrum, written by Beacon Software for office workers.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. About 77 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
42d1ba93a6ac2d1ef19a1f015ad652c055a7fe004729f117298b593529ec1bb0- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ZXS-6 · lz-z80 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 under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.
Cite as: Beacon Software, OspreyCopy 3.8 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32642.