Description
Behavior and service firmware for an electric sheep, made to pass for the real thing at a glance.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2022. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c14df9187b25c4d3c751ef9b84b687988837c847d12199b826d929ba286d7e91- Last verified
- Oct 7, 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: Plover Companion Animals, Electric sheep, model VR-560: firmware (2012). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32895.