Lazarus Archive · LZ-41183

Spelling Detective 2

Petrov Educational, 1992. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

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

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Rockport Springs and passed to Lazarus. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
502089935485f74f3cdc3d4df7c9968789bba8cad24abef01c6450c2afc47dd8
Last verified
Oct 28, 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: Petrov Educational, Spelling Detective 2 (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41183.

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