Description
Control firmware for a pinball machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
289cc148a316a3e2e68027d4e3ae54dabaf708bb808b07211c5103ff4b3cdd39- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-EMBED-2 · lz-mcu core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-EMBED-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on an embedded controller.
Cite as: Basalt Controls, Basalt pinball machine controller, model BG-10 (2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10862.