Description
Firmware for an electric sheep, including the routines that governed its feeding, sleeping and moods.
Provenance
Deposited by East Clayby Games Museum, which had held it unread for years. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5771eb0381612d58808e9104e0c4b9074e72b4194dbee17487aa80d55efa9db3- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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: Pylon Companion Animals, Electric sheep, model PL-280: firmware (2013). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25619.