Description
A programming language for Atari 8-bit computers, written by Egret Computing for schools.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Mould on three disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8d56f7a3050d6bf1ed1e6be26c222b867f57a01715e152779409c38e1a7ca47d- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ATARI8-5 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.
Cite as: Egret Computing, LodePascal (1979). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35961.