Archive News 2024
26/03/2024 |
Added the following titles;
- Educational Compilation 1 from 8-Bit Software,
- Translations of Homer's The Odyssey and The Illiad,
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25/03/2024 |
Scanned and added the documentation for the Micro Primer pack. This
was one of those jobs I had been meaning to do.
Following a question from a teacher about whether a GCSE 2D-platform game
could be written, the Archive has added a program that could fulfil this task.
Put forward in the style of an AQA Controlled Assessment (before the government
killed practical work for GCSE Computer Science), this is an example of such a
game, written from the perspective of a good GCSE candidate and in BBC BASIC,
just to show it is still alive and well. Yes, there are errors in the program
but a GCSE candidate would make these. It works, however, and could be extended
to have different levels. |
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21/03/2024 |
System Delta from Minerva Systems is the latest addition to the
Archive. This is a substantial ROM-based card index database package package
that can handle up to 2 billion cards, apparently. |
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20/03/2024 |
Tidied the scans of the Software Catalogue and added two missing
pages. |
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19/03/2024 |
Thanks to OneSwitch from the StarDot forum, an Educational Software
Catalogue for 1991 has been added to the Books section. This is very much a
provisional scan, made with a Czur ET-24 Pro overhead scanner. The scans will
need extensive tidying but, at about 400 pages, this will take a while. |
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18/03/2024 |
The collection of Micro-Scope magazines has now been completed, I think.
The Archive was contacted by Roger Keeling, the editor of the magazine. Roger
had the missing Issue 1. He very kindly provided scans which were able to be fed
through an OCR program to reconstitute the magazine in its entirety. |
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14/03/2024 |
The latest updates include;
- Geography and History Notes in Interword, Wordwise Plus and View
format added to the Oddments section,
- Simple Maths Practice, a collation of infant maths programs,
- Number Bonds, from ECL,
- Parmenter Maths, a collection of mathematics programs,
- Maths Compilation, a collection of infant maths programs compiled
by Paul Clucas.
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12/03/2024 |
The latest updates include;
- AVC Turtle Graphics, a simple turtle graphics application,
- Standard Reading Tests, by P J Rooney,
- The Executioner, an adult hangman game,
- Rushden Roy Games, letter and number games for young children.
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07/03/2024 |
The latest updates include;
- Multiple Choice Christian Quiz from John Lyons,
- A disc of Beatrix Potter illustrations in the Oddments - Graphics
section,
- Games for Children, an amateur collection of four simple games.
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05/03/2024 |
A conference publication 2010 Education has been added to the
Microscope Magazine Section thanks to the generosity of Richard Keeling,
one of the editors.
The 2010 Education conference of 1989 attempted to predict the face of
computing in education by the year 2010. The conclusions make very interesting
reading and many were quite accurate. This is definitely worth a read by anyone
interested in education. |
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04/03/2024 |
The latest updates include;
- The addition in the Oddments-Teletext section a BASIC program to decode
and display the Teletext pages contained in the BeebFAX disc images. This
software will work on any RISCOS machine or a BBC Master and under ADFS, NFS
or SDFS or SCSIFS on the Raspberry Pi.
- AB Maths, a compilation of two Alan Blundell programs,
- Extra documentation for MAPE Tape 5: Owl Pack and the Owls
Special Edition for Spring 1988 in the MAPE magazines section, both
courtesy of Richard Keeling one of the leading lights in MAPE.
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27/02/2024 |
The latest updates include;
- Tess from H & H Software. The original disc was physically
damaged with a complete ring of surface worn away. In addition the rest of
the disc surface was very crumbly. With care, repeated cleaning of the disc
heads and a lot of luck the necessary files were extracted from the original
disc and a new, working disc was created. This latter was archived.
- Addition of the documentation for Decimals by Chalksoft.
- Addition of documentation for Let's Count from ASK.
- Addition of third party documentation for the South East Railway Game
from Longman.
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26/02/2024 |
Updates to date include;
- The documentation for Alpha, a language processor from AUCBE;
this needs the ROM which is missing,
- Microscope Issues 2 and 11 from MAPE. A big thank you to Heather
Govier, one of Microscope's major contributors, for the missing issues,
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Message Scroller, from John Hewes, courtesy of John Simpson, who
offered this to the Archive.
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24/02/2024 |
It has been a while since the last update. The Flax Cottage Archive room has
been redecorated and re-organised. The re-organisation went well with about 50%
of the held items being re-homed elsewhere. There is now room to move and
concentrate on archiving.
Updates to date include;
- The documentation for The Micro at Work pack 2.
- Added Turtle Tales information from MESU.
- Added an archive of software modified for use with partially sighted
students. This archive came courtesy of OneSwitch from the StarDot forums.
The whole archive is in the Oddments/Miscellaneous section as much of the software needs
hardware add-ons that are not possessed by the Archive.
- Transform from Chalksoft, looking at mathematical transformations
of shapes.
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28/01/2024 |
Several educational magazines and other materials have been added to the
Archive. These include the MAPE special edition for December 1987, featuring
LOGO and a MAPE magazine Focus on MFL.
A new section for NAACE, the
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24/01/2024 |
This update completes archiving titles from the ScaryBeasts/billcarr2005 HFE/FSD
archive of educational titles.
- From
Shards Software, The Adventurer, a collection of 4 Shards adventures,
- Electricity, from Shell Education, a title that is a starter with
electric circuits, etc.,
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Two titles from the Sulis Grammar Tree series, Sentences and
Verbs.
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19/01/2024 |
Continuing to archive titles from the ScaryBeasts/billcarr2005 HFE/FSD
archive of educational titles.
- From Pitmansoft;
- Business Studies Programs, a collection of programs for O-Level
Business Studies students,
- Diary Planner, a diary application for up to 4 different diaries,
- Email, an email simulation,
- Hotel, a simulation of an hotel booking system,
- Simple Information Processing, a look at data storage and
retrieval,
- Stock Control, a simple stock control program.
- Two titles from Quicksilva;
- Character Generator, which designs BBC micro characters including
multi-coloured ones,
- Teletext Generator, which designs, saves and retrieves MODE7
teletext screens.
- Three titles from Selective Software;
- The Music Box Adventures, a simple adventure game,
- Number Investigations B, explores links between sequences of
numbers,
- Quickdraw, a simple drawing package.
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15/01/2024 |
Finally recommenced archiving titles from the ScaryBeasts/billcarr2005 HFE/FSD
archive of educational titles.
- From PAVIC Publications titles from the Fun Phonics series - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
7,
- From Pitmansoft Business Documents, providing a simulated
Purchase and Sales Ledger.
Also added EduCAD and EduCNC from Edusoft. EduCAD is a comprehensive CAD
package and EduCNC allows design of profiles and generation of the CNC programs
to create the designs. Thanks to Rasp from the StarDot forums for providing the
images. |
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10/01/2024 |
Another year and much more to do ...
Watch this space. |
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ARCHIVE STATS |
4273 programs
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1788 packages
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385 publishers
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GENRE STATS |
Administration 53
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Adventure 99
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Art 55
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Biology 168
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Business 71
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Chemistry 211
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Classics 3
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Computer Science 277
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Design and Technology 59
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Economics 19
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Electronics 14
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English 73
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French 65
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Gardening 2
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General Purpose 178
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Geography 134
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German 27
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History 48
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Literacy 531
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Mathematics 1319
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Modern Foreign Languages 10
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Music 45
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Navigation 1
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Office Skills 5
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Personal and Social Education 31
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Physical Education 6
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Physics 159
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Problem solving 134
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Religious Education 1
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Science 56
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Sociology 1
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Special Needs 291
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Training 4
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