Lazarus Archive · LZ-32680

OspreyKeys 1.0

Gabriel Lim, 1986. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A typing tutor for the BBC Micro, published by Gabriel Lim in 1986.

Provenance

Deposited by Redcombe Bay Computer Heritage Centre, which had held it unread for years. The label reads ‘Don’t lend’. All files were recovered; 57 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
7d1fd805a0c36664356b546099b5c07cea6b7980c583efd3c7223291e5c84478
Last verified
Oct 24, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Gabriel Lim, OspreyKeys 1.0 (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32680.

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