Archive News 2021
14/01/2021 |
Early January has been a busy time at the Archive. Some of the outstanding copies of Micro-Scope have been scanned and added to
the archive. They include issues 39 (Summer 1993) to 41 (Spring 1994).
Thanks to Tom Moffat, who contacted the Archive recently and offered to loan a
mass of missing titles he had rescued from a skip at his school when they were
being thrown away due to the progress of IBM PC clones in the early 1990s. It
will be a major job to archive these titles.
First off the mark is the addition of the documentation for the AVP titles ,
Physics (CYG010) - Measurement - Interestingly the disk was
numbered CYG004 in the catalogue, (This documentation was badly 'corroded' due
to sticky ink peeling onto the opposing page and needed significant 'tidying
up'.), and Trigonometry (COM115). Documentation was also added for the
Find Database from HUMMEC along with the original master disks.
The following titles were also added;
- DCIRC from Pavic Publications which is a simple electronic
circuit designer.
- Teletext Pack, an early title from Beebug, which is designed to
allow easy creation of MODE7 displays.
- Tech Tracker from British Nuclear Fuels plc, a time travel
adventure in which the player must rescue scientists.
- Power Plan from British Nuclear Fuels, which gives the chance to
run a virtual nuclear reactor.
- Design and Technology Part 1 by BBCSoft a set of technology
programs along with accompanying audio tapes.
- Design and Technology Part 2 by BBCSoft a set of CAD, Business
and Computing simulations and games.
- Several titles from Linear Graphics Limited; these titles are designed
to work with the Plotmate pen plotter;
- LinChart, a bar/pie chart program to
work with a Plotmate plotter.
- Graph Fit, a program to fit experimental data to the correct
graph.
- LinSign, a utility to produce banners with large letters.
- Lib-CAD from OWL Microsystems, a simple CAD program that works
with a plotter.
There are still many titles from this loan left to add to the archive.
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05/01/2021 |
Latest updates include the following AVP titles;
- Graph Sketching - draws graphs of exemplar or user-defined
equations.
- Kinetic Theory (COM160) - virtual experiments investigating
aspects of kinetic theory.
- Logic Gates - design and test circuits made from logic gates.
- Timing Package - a collection of timing programs using either the
keyboard or switches.
- Statistical Tools - a set of programs to perform statistical
analysis of experimental data.
- Engine and Transmission - animated explanations of how an engine
and gearbox work.
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02/01/2021 |
Welcome to the year 2021!
Issue 38 of the MAPE members' magazine Micro-Scope has been added.
Whilst cataloguing some of the vast number of floppy disk images held by the
Archive a missing title from Sherston Software was discovered. This was Jolly
Jack Tar, an animated series of lessons and quizzes aimed at teaching music
theory to young children. This was a copy of the original disk and had been
'hacked' to remove the quite sophisticated protection used by this title.
Updates also include the following AVP titles;
- Four Stroke Internal Combustion Engine (COM170),
- Electricity 1 - a series of questions about simple electric
circuits,
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ARCHIVE STATS |
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Biology 104
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Business 12
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Chemistry 122
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Computer Science 84
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Design and Technology 15
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Economics 4
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English 37
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Gardening 1
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General Purpose 67
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Geography 50
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German 6
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Literacy 199
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Mathematics 680
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Modern Foreign Languages 18
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Music 18
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Physical Education 1
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Physics 91
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Problem solving 111
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Science 25
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Special Needs 159
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