Lazarus Archive · LZ-37801

Planet Castle

Pinewood Schools Software Unit, 1993. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A planet program for ages 5 to 7, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.

Provenance

Deposited by Hazeldale Museum of Computing, from its own collections. The label reads ‘Version that works’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
893d2d2e76cc87efdfb8eec1707869c05817cc77a4fd8c6203d9620dcac6810f
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: Pinewood Schools Software Unit, Planet Castle (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37801.

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