Lazarus Archive · LZ-40291

HeronDesk 4.6

East Birchcombe Software, 2008. Application software for feature phones.

Description

A desktop publishing program for feature phones, sold to printers and typesetters by East Birchcombe Software.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2025. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
307a83eb4f8f07025c9d103b68a5b6544dc83a353bea9989d5a2c7e82545e7c8
Last verified
Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-JME-3 · lz-jvm 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-JME-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on feature phones.

Cite as: East Birchcombe Software, HeronDesk 4.6 (2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40291.

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