Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric sheep, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Deposited by Riverstead Games Museum, which had held it unread for years. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d139159533958ff9ee268f354fb1b7531cf7825061b029b8c8688c103d3b9f77- Last verified
- Oct 18, 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: Zephyr Companion Animals, Electric sheep, model KN-990: firmware (2011). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27833.