Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric squirrel, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Deposited by Oakfold Games Museum. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cb12f53b0cc2cd74cce9f36b56362bd5ed28a34236f3ef6b61eedd206044c251- Last verified
- Oct 11, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ANIMAL-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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ANIMAL-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on electric companion animals.
Cite as: Tern Companion Animals, Electric squirrel, model ZA-220: firmware (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21026.