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Outsoftware · Digital preservation · 2016–present

The collection preserves original media and their copy protection. Supplied backup copies are also used to document the software and are identified in the screenshot captions.

Digital preservation / Sinclair QL

BetterBasic v1.0

BetterBasic v1.0 for Sinclair QL. One preserved file in MDV format, from the digital preservation collection started in 2016. Software release year: 1986. Names recorded on the medium include BOOT, BETTERBASIC_BIN, XTRAS.

BetterBasic v1.0 — Screen from files extracted from the supplied MDV backup and loaded in sQLux
Screen from files extracted from the supplied MDV backup and loaded in sQLux · sQLux
Source: BetterBasic v1.0 (1986 Digital Precision) mdv BK Dave – 100%gF (µdump 2.0.1 Alpha1).zip

BetterBasic v1.0.mdv

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Preserved copy: Backup (BK)

Platform
Sinclair QL
SHA-256
73aaea622ea3dcf1afb21f9ff148f41ca4b9d0db3f0571cdb18af5d073b97ccc
File timestamp
2017-06-17T04:37:56

Timestamp stored in the original ZIP; timezone unspecified. It does not certify the dump acquisition date.

Media contents (3)
QDOS media directory
Original nameTypeByteMedium in package
BOOTQL file93BetterBasic v1.0.mdv
BETTERBASIC_BINQL file29.158BetterBasic v1.0.mdv
XTRASQL file4.160BetterBasic v1.0.mdv

Names are preserved as recorded on the medium. “≤” indicates allocated space, not the exact file length.