Archive News 2023
14/03/2023 |
Latest additions include:
- STD Database from 8-Bit Software, a database of the new (in 1980s
UK) STD codes,
- Some Sampled Sounds from the C J Richardson archive,
- Teletext, from the CJ Richardson archive,
- Word Search 2.4, from the CJ Richardson archive,
- The complete CJ Richardson archive.
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10/03/2023 |
Latest additions include:
- Personal Banking, from Addison Wesley, a simulation of the
Trustee Savings Bank,
- Turtle Graphics, from Acornsoft, a full-featured implementation
of LOGO graphics,
- From AVP a number of missing titles;
- An Introduction to Electronic Systems,
- Translations,
- Chemical Formulae,
- Periodicity of the Elements,
- French Programs
- A-Level Maths/Stats
- Investigating Radioactive Sources
- Control Simulations
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06/03/2023 |
Latest additions include:
- The Paraffin File, BP, an Economics simulation based on the
international oil market. Kindly provided from an Herefordshire County
Council MDFS Server being restored by StarDot member fermit.
- Flowchart Generator, from Garland, make flowcharts from simple
BASIC programs. Kindly provided by StarDot member iledoffard.
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26/02/2023 |
Latest additions include:
- Calligraphy, from Redwood Publishing Ltd, software to print text
in a range of high quality fonts and a ROM that shows a range of
different on-screen fonts; thanks to StarDot members Iggypop and
Billcarr2005 for the software.
- Animal Vegetable Mineral game, from BES;thanks to StarDot member Diminished for the tape image,
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25/02/2023 |
The latest additions include;
- Function Graph Plotter, from SCDS and ITMA, a graph plotter
program.
This marks a massive milestone in the Archive's activities. All physical
discs and all virtual disc images hosted by the Archive have been examined for
new material and the cupboard is bare! The Archive now needs to start hunting
for more educational titles to preserve. There are still thousands to 'discover'
but they are hard to find. HELP IS NEEDED, PLEASE.
Please contact us via the Contact page to offer any materials you have. |
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18/02/2023 |
The latest additions include;
- Coastal Map Reading, from Soft-Teach Educational,
- General Map Reading, also from Soft-Teach Educational,
- Electric Fields, from BBCSoft,
- Ultracalc 2 Utilities added to the Oddments --> Applications
section,
- Russian Language and People, from BBCSoft,
- Modern Language Characters, a SEMERC publication.
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13/02/2023 |
The latest additions include;
- Net Utilities from Akademias, software and information to help
set up their software on L2 and L3 Econet,
- Creative Sound on the BBC Microcomputer Model B discs to
accompany the book,
- The Micro User Magazine Disc for December 1988, in the Oddments
-> Magazines section,
- Another Music disc, Music 19, a collection of themes including
Starwars,
- The Master Emulation ROM from Dabs Press added to the ROMS
section, make a BBC micro into a Master, without documentation it is unsure
whether/how this works,
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08/02/2023 |
Continuing to look through the hundreds of floppy discs at the Archive, the latest additions include;
- Intermediate Model Computer 1, based on the model in Computer
Science by Peter Bishop,
- British Isles Quiz, from Computer Market, a quiz on naming places
on a map,
- Town Test, from Silverlind, a quiz on naming towns on a map,
- LOGO Extensions and Examples, from Acornsoft,
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04/02/2023 |
The latest additions to the Archive include;
- An update to Angle Turner - thanks to Dave Edwards, webmaster of
https://www.everygamegoing.com , for providing the documentation and
correct publisher attribution,
- Tracer-3 a very simple card index database from Woodsoft,
- Data Handling Package, an amateur simple card file database,
- Text Shape System, a text processor form Disc User magazine,
- Deadline!, a newspaper creation package from Granada.
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01/02/2023 |
The latest additions to the Archive include;
- Junior Maths 1 and 2, from EaroSoft. A two disc collection of
maths programs for children aged 7 - 11
- Music Synths, a collection of music files, sythesisers and a
Morse Code Tutor from Ashby School, added to the Oddments -> Music section,
- Adventure Into BasicB, from John Wiley; a collection of BBC BASIC
adventure games and utilities.
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20/01/2023 |
The latest additions to the Archive include;
- Wordsearcher (A218), a compilation disc of literacy and numeracy
programs from Ashby School,
- Ices (Disc T1), a compilation of numeracy programs and games from
Ashby School,
- Compute-A-Tale, a Wordwise Plus application that writes
personalised and random stories, from Ashby School,
- AQA GCSE Computer Science controlled assessment scenarios; these
are solutions to the controlled assessment tests from the AQA GCSE Computer
Science examinations for the years 2014 to 2017 written in BBC BASIC on a
BBC Master.
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04/01/2023 |
Happy New Year everyone.
A recent acquitistion, Wagon's West, from Tressell Publications is a wagon train simulation.
There are still more discs to examine for missing treasures. Watch this space! |
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Multiplication Train
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DJL Software
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ARCHIVE STATS |
3819 programs
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1635 packages
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368 publishers
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GENRE STATS |
Administration 50
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Adventure 96
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Art 45
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Biology 149
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Business 56
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Chemistry 192
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Classics 1
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Computer Science 230
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Design and Technology 52
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Economics 19
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Electronics 13
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English 66
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French 31
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Gardening 2
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General Purpose 170
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Geography 127
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German 17
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History 45
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Literacy 470
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Mathematics 1198
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Modern Foreign Languages 9
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Music 42
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Navigation 1
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Office Skills 4
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Personal and Social Education 29
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Physical Education 6
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Physics 130
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Problem solving 128
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Science 55
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Sociology 1
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Special Needs 291
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Training 4
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