Disassembly of BTL4OPT.EXE (2026-08-06) recovered the PPC's authentic
secondary-display effect: an EnergyDamageType (==4) hit calls the gauge
renderer's SpecialEffect(scrambleVideo, damageType*0.2f), which detunes the
VGA CRTC Horizontal Total by -9 for 0.8s -- every secondary cockpit display
loses horizontal sync ("looks like the CRTs are being degaussed"), the main
VPX view is untouched. damageType 4 is authored on exactly the 14 PPC/ERPPC
records, so the branch is structurally PPC-exclusive.
- phases/phase-14-ppc-sync-distortion.md: the port spec (trigger + visual +
fidelity constraints + verification).
- context/gauges-hud.md: full disasm chain + the FlashPalette non-confusion.
- context/combat-damage.md: the damageType==4 branch in the damage handler.
NOT YET IMPLEMENTED -- this commit is the spec; the effect is the next work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 4.8
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