Today the Archive was contacted by David Glossop the author of several Pavic Publications titles. The authorship for Fun Phonics 7 has been updated to recognise him as the programmer. Not a bad achievement for a 17/18 year old programmer.

Added Talking about Numbers from CAMET. This is a Special Needs title and is concept keyboard compatible.

Added Pod-Cy from ASK. This is a re-creation of the Welsh version of Podd. Thanks to kazzie from the StarDot Forum for the conversion to Welsh.

Added the software titles for the Discomania Concept Keyboard resources.

Updated the download for Prompt 3 from SEMERC with an earlier variant.

Unfortunately the Archive's main PC suffered a terminal hard disk failure following a Microsoft upgrade to Windows this week. The failure meant a replacement SSD drive and hours of agony reinstalling the software and data from backups and recovery discs. We are almost back in operation and this is despite the frustrating efforts of Microsoft.

When reinstalling Windows 10 (yes I know it is soon to be relegated to be Dodo software) it soon became apparent that Microsoft in their deranged wisdom had updated Windows 10 to be close to their Windows 11 appearance and 'feel'. Not only that but software that was in constant use by the Archive before the crash will not now work with the 'improved' version of Windows 10.

There is a very good maxim -

If it works then don't fix it!

A number of titles from the Cleveland Educational Computer Centre have been added. These include;

• Brick Up Pack, which includes the original version and a new version that reads its vocabulary from Acornsoft View files,
• Concept Shapes, a concept keyboard compatible shape recognition and graphics program,
• Reading and comprehension programs that need the Speech! ROM to work;
  • Planet Earth,
  • Hanna and the Old Wizard,
  • My Friend Robert,
  • World War Two,
  • The Bermuda Triangle,
• Make Use, a program to make concept keyboard overlays,
• Concept Keyboard Programs, JUMBO and DART adapted for the concept keyboard,
• Koran Tales, a modified version of the Resource title, Fairy Tales - a work in progress,
• NORICC Sample disc.

A loan from OneSwitch from the StarDot Forums provided masses of Concept Keyboard Overlays for the Archive. So many overlays were scanned that a new Concept Keyboard section has been added to the web site. In addition a new version of the AB European Marketing concept keyboard manual was included along with the previous version in the download for this title.

A SEN INSET Resource pack was added to the Special Needs section of the Archive.

Prices of some packages were added.

Another milestone for the Archive has been reached with the addition of Snatch from 4Mation. There are now 4,500 programs archived.

Further titles have also been updated;

• Typesetter, from Sherston Software - added original 40T Font and User discs and some missing documentation,
• The French Mistress, from Kosmos - added missing documentation,
• Video Maths, from Central Software - added missing documentation.

Thanks to a loan from VectorEyes of StarDot Forums fame, the following titles have been updated;

• Raft-Away River from Jacaranda - added 1985 UK version Disc and Front cover scans,
• Prompt Writer from MESU - added documentation,
• Punctuate! second edition from Topologika; this has new and improved documentation,
• Words and Pictures, from Chalksoft - added an SSD image and a scan of the disc,
• An Introduction to Electronic Systems, from AVP - added documentation.

Thanks to a loan from VectorEyes of StarDot Forums fame, the following titles have been added;

• Educational Software Selection Volume 3 from Fernleaf, a compilation of some of their titles,
• Datadisc,datalogging software from Philip Harris,
• The Filling Station, from BP, a business game,
• Enigma, from Capital Media, a program about cyphers,
• Stars, from AUCBE, a business game.

It has been quite a while since the last update.

The latest addition is a comprehensive design project brief from Myers Grove School Technology Department. The aim is to build a model of a bungalow and fit an intruder alarm. The student then programs the computer to control the alarm system. The download also includes the complete skeleton program for the project.

Added Discs 7 & 8 from Starshine Software, completing the collection of Tony Ellis programs.

Starwars Day!

A range of titles have been added including;

• The French Revolution from Akadimias Software,
• micro-PROLOG ROM version 3.00,
• Disc 6 from Starshine Software.

Updated several Amateur packages where the software was missing;

• The Ashby Special Disc (A1),
• Chemistry 13,
• Colour.

Added missing software downloads for;

• BBCSoft - The Mole Concept

Updated the entry for Tesselator from Addison Wesley publishers. The download now includes the software as an HFE file.

The latest additions to the Archive include Discs 4 and 5 from Starshine Software, a collection of primary adventure games.

The latest additions to the Archive include;

• The Theorem of Pythagorus from Griffin Software,
• Englishskills 1, from Griffin Software,
• Discs 2, 3 from Starshine Software, a collection of primary software,,

• Linkword - German from Acornsoft

The latest additions to the Archive include;

• The documentation for the Griffin package, Wordspell,
• VuCalc, Psion's spreadsheet offering,
• Eight discs of primary age software from Starshine Software,
• Mathskills II from Griffin, a collection of maths programs on tape

The Archive is very grateful for all the dedication and hard work of Diminished from the StarDot Forum in writing and maintaining the Quadbike package. This amazing piece of software allows BBC cassette tapes to be easily preserved as CSW files. Quadbike is now the default method used by the Archive for preserving BBC tapes

Two packages from unknown publishers and unknown programmers were added. The packages were;

• Menstruation and Pregnancy,
• Sentence Scan

Updated the download for Ashby Drop Disc A25 to include an image of the same disc made for Ticknall School, also added the documentation for Chalksoft's Words and Pictures.

Another Alternative Software title, Thomas the Tank Engine's Fun with Words has also been uploaded.

The broken links on the website have all been detected and corrected.

Sooty and Sweep's Fun with Numbers by Alternative Software is the latest addition.

Thanks to Dave E of the www.everygamegoing.com website, a number of dead download links have been identified as well as missing disc images in the downloads. These have been fixed. The whole website is currently being checked and repaired where necessary, so please bear with me. New items will continue to be added during the checking.

Now added Time from Stell Software,

The latest additions to the archive include;

• Help Yourself - Maths from BBCsoft,
• Inside Information, from BBCsoft, looking at computer processing of data.

The latest additions to the archive include;

• Signals and Magic from H&H Software, two mathematical puzzles discovered on the Stairway to Hell website,
• Further titles from MattBlissett from the StarDot forum,
  • Mosaic from AUCBE,
  • Masterknit 200 from Clwyd Technics, a program to control a knitting machine,
  • Anita Straker Set 6 - Language from ECL

A happy new year to one and all.

The first offering of 2025 is a title from David Pilling Software, Image Master. This came bundled with a Mustek 600 II EP flat bed scanner for RISCOS 3.x operating system computers with a bi-directional printer port. At the Archive the system used to test the software and scanner was a 4Mb, 25Mz A5000 computer system. This is in the RISCOS-Applications section.

Thanks to MattBlissett of the StarDot forum for the kind donation of the scanner and software.