Lazarus Archive · LZ-34986

NorthwindShell 3.8

Mensah & Demir, 1984. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A file manager for the BBC Micro, written by Mensah & Demir for home users.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Wrenmore Bay and passed to Lazarus. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e35f1b3ee0281a2b98d44e1164cf4765b5fe42f06002eb5caad67ed053304bed
Last verified
Oct 15, 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: Mensah & Demir, NorthwindShell 3.8 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34986.

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