EcoDisc

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The EcoDisc is a simulation of a real nature reserve in which students are free to explore and experiment for themselves. The disk is aimed mainly at students aged 14-18 who are studying ecology.

The project, an off-shoot of the Domesday Project, it was 2 years in the making includes 4000 photographs, 150 video sequences and over 1000 kilobytes of software." It is about a real nature reserve at Slapton Ley in Devon, you have the opportunity to explore the reserve and its inhabitants and to manage it.

The material is based on the original BBC Ecodisc (LV-ROM version), produced by Peter Bratt and Stewart Atkins. CD-ROM for the Apple Macintosh produced by the BBC Interactive Television Unit.

Designed to run directly from CD-ROM

Platform: Apple Macintosh Plus or SE or II minimum 1 Mb RAM 80Mb CD-ROM Hard Disk

               Mac OS 

              Hypercard supplied on CD-ROM

Application Software (AS:) Educational

Version: 1989



Platform : Apple Mac Compact
Format : CD-ROM
Publisher : ESM
Authors : Matthew Vosburgh, Mark Wilson, Karen Frazer
Date : 1989
Product Code :

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Other Software by ESM:

Item Manufacturer Platform Format Date
Desktop Folio esm Acorn Archimedes 3.5 Floppy Disk Unknown
Numeracy 5 ESM Educational Software RM Nimbus 3.5" Floppy Disk Unknown
Missing Signs Acornsoft / ESM Education BBC Micro Model B Disc (missing) Unknown
Number Balance (Cassette) Acornsoft esm Education BBC Micro Cassette 1982
Number Balance (Disc) Acornsoft esm Education BBC Micro 5.25" disk 1982
Sentence Sequencing Acornsoft / ESM Education BBC Micro Cassette 1982
Missing Signs Acornsoft / ESM Education BBC Micro Cassette 1982
Sentence Sequencing (Disk) Acornsoft / ESM Education BBC Micro 5 1/4 Disk 1982
Number Balance (Disk) Acornsoft esm Education BBC Micro 5.25" Disk 1982
Zahlenwaage Acornsoft ESM BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Datext ESM BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Early Reading ESM BBC Micro 5.25" Disk 1983
Pre-Reading ESM BBC Micro 5.25 Disk 1983
Steps to Fitness Esmonde Publishing BBC Cassette 1984
Best Four Maths Site License ESM Software Publishing BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disc 1984
An Eye For Spelling ESM Software Publishing BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disc 1984
Numeracy 4 ESM Educational Software RM Nimbus 3.5" Floppy Disk 1985
MicroStory ESM BBC Micro 5.25" Floppy Disk 1985
SupaStore Database esm BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy 1986
Word Web ESM BBC Micro 5.25 Disk 1986
Advanced Folio ESM Educational Software BBC Micro 5.25" Floppy Disk 1988
Shape and Colour Snap ESM Educational Software BBC Micro 5.25" Floppy Disk 1988
Numbercopter ESM Educational Software BBC Micro 5.25" Floppy Disk 1988
Screenprint ESM Software Publishing BBC Micro ROM 1989
EcoDisc ESM Apple Mac Compact CD-ROM 1989
Kaleidoscope ESM Software Publishing BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disc 1990
Frieze ESM Software Publishing BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disc 1990
An Eye For Spelling ESM Acorn Archimedes 3.5" Floppy Disk 1993

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH55943. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
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