Lazarus Archive · LZ-35442

FerroFix 1.7

Kestrel Software, 1982. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A disk utility for the BBC Micro, sold to repair shops by Kestrel Software.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2023. The label reads ‘Recipes’. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f3c1662a349ecd0521b8ac503cc827a807c19975707ab39c86c4bb841577c229
Last verified
Sep 12, 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.

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: Kestrel Software, FerroFix 1.7 (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35442.

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