Lazarus Archive · LZ-40068

Kestrel Drafter

Watanabe Interactive, 1985. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

An architectural drawing program for the BBC Micro, published by Watanabe Interactive in 1985.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Barmore. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a26416edd3d0f3ffcd4db6b7f2de7ca6dd8100e199d9292fc2772efa3be581a4
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: Watanabe Interactive, Kestrel Drafter (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40068.

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