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Joe DiPrimaandClaude Fable 5 bf39b81b9d KB: document the #60 census/re-export aftermath across the context system

- CLAUDE.md front + project-overview: census/re-export DONE (93.5% coverage,
  41KB dark), polish list refreshed; the citation-policy warning rides the
  front matter so it is unmissable.
- locomotion §CROUCH addendum: the re-export CONFIRMS the hand transcription
  field-for-field, documents that Ghidra renders members as int-ARRAY indices
  ([0xfe] == byte 0x3f8 -- why offset-string greps of the export miss them),
  and records the AIRBORNE AUTO-RISE branch the raw pass missed (+ its fix).
- decomp-reference §7: citation policy (@ADDR, never part/LINE -- old
  citations resolve only against archive_2025export/), the array-index
  gotcha, and the full re-export toolchain (ghidra_reexport.sh incl. the 8.3
  short-path requirement, gapcensus, gapdiff).
- open-questions: the leads the re-export produced -- @0x4c0904 is the MASTER
  BTPlayer Performance (team-by-name resolve + EndMission post + score
  heartbeat; our @0x4c083c attribution needs a re-check) and the ~9KB
  l4splr|btmssn cluster that stayed dark THROUGH the fill (no call/data
  reference reaches it -- jump-table entry suspected).
- glossary: dark-region.
Section ordering fixed (addenda above Key Relationships); checkctx CLEAN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-06 11:18:48 -05:00

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project-overview

Project Overview — what this is, people, goals

established

PROGRESS_LOG.md §1-3; README.md

pod-hardware

wintesla-port

source-completeness

build-and-run

MUNGA

Tesla-platform

WinTesla

pod

Project Overview

Port VWE's arcade pod games (Tesla platform, release 4.10, ~1995-96) to modern Windows and, ultimately, the actual arcade pod hardware. Primary target: BattleTech (BT); Red Planet (RP) shares the engine. Full detail: docs/PROGRESS_LOG.md §1-3.

The ORIGINAL 1995-96 team — the initials in the source headers matched to names by VWE veterans (dev team ~8, art ~6, MUNGA by a smaller internal team) — is credited in docs/CREDITS.md.

The stack

Two games, one engine: BT + RP. Engine = MUNGA; HAL = L4 (MUNGA_L4). Game logic = CODE/BT, CODE/RP. [T1]
Original platform: 32-bit DOS under a DPMI32 extender, Borland C++ 5 + TASM32, on Novell DOS pods. 3D by a proprietary Division IG image-generator board (dual EISA), driven by the closed libDPL.lib (binary + VREND microcode). [T1]
The port replaces the IG board/libDPL with a dpl_* → Direct3D9 shim (done in WinTesla as L4D3D). Pods now run Windows 10 + a Voodoo/Glide wrapper. BT was abandoned (MechWarrior 4 runs on the current pods); this project revives BT. [T1]

People / goals

arcattack (user): doing the port. NVIDIA 3060 + A6000 dev GPUs.
Nick: owns the pods + the software license (porting is authorized). Runs the pod hardware. The gating dependency — the missing BT source likely lives on his backup drives (see source-completeness).
Goal: run on (a) a modern dev box and (b) the fixed pod hardware. Multiplayer (pod-to-pod) wanted.

Repo orientation (bt411)

This is the clean standalone bt411 repo. README.md + the top-level CMakeLists.txt are the build of record. Tree: engine/ game/ content/ docs/ reference/ tools/ context/. Historical sections in docs/PROGRESS_LOG.md cite old C:/git/nick-games/... paths — treat as provenance; they map into this repo (reconstructed BT → game/reconstructed/, engine → engine/MUNGA{,_L4}/, content → content/, raw decomp → reference/decomp/). [T2]

Current state (2026-08-06) — core gameplay reconstruction COMPLETE; polish phase

Field-tested nightly at 4-8 pods over Steam (builds 4.11.622→801). Authentic + benched: the full SP+MP loop; per-panel mesh-true targeting/damage (+ crits, cylinder lottery, armour darkening); the 1995 SCORING model (kill awards + received penalties + panic cost — the id-0x16 report tail); death (blast/splash, wreck, burial) + respawn (full re-arm audit); locomotion (two-channel gait, gimp limp, knockdowns, CROUCH F4); the night kit (fog-swap SEARCHLIGHT F5 + beam cone); heat/ power/myomers (incl. the seek-4 freeze); replication (masters/replicants, kill/death columns, ghost+skate field detectors); the Steam wire seam + build gate; the operator console/relay lifecycle; gauges/HUD; audio (real OpenAL backend + the AUDIO_FIDELITY trigger waves — footsteps/ gait/alarms/impacts live in the field). [T2] Infra ✅ 2026-08-06: the #60 export gap census AND re-export shipped — coverage 87.3% → 93.5%, dark code 90 → 41 KB, +205 functions, and the re-export independently confirmed the week's raw-disasm reconstructions (source-completeness, phases/phase-04-gap-census.md). Remaining (polish): VehicleDead killed-by consumption (operator "X killed by Y" — the sender already ships the fields); burning-wreck handler (mech-0x17 label mismatch); @0x4c0904 master BTPlayer Performance vs our @0x4c083c attribution; the id-0x16 type-0 curiosity; MechRIOMapper Keypress @004d2514; marker beacon (LoadObject wrapper stub); DIV firmware intersection routine (deep-cut); deferred ledger items in open-questions. [T2]

Key Relationships

Full detail: docs/PROGRESS_LOG.md.
Enables: everything — see wintesla-port (the base), source-completeness (the gap), build-and-run (how to build).

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