Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric tortoise, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f7e2e6372be3c18629f65aec4861527a692c4d225fd1c623e620801af8e0e577- Last verified
- Sep 23, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Aster Companion Animals, Electric tortoise, model TG-430: firmware (2014). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22990.