Description
Control firmware for a pinball machine, read from the machine’s chips before it was scrapped.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The window labels had peeled and the EPROMs had been exposed to light, so each was read many times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
89ebf445c7c9063a0c844cc657a4b51c543c09c771256270c1c6df616f64bd7d- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Kestrel Electronics, Kestrel pinball machine controller, model TZ-430 (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17834.