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Adversarially-verified audit (18 agents) against the task #46-#56 landings: MP/current-state understatements, superseded punch readings, retired env gates, dead paths, line-cite drift; env-gate hub table completed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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 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 (2026-07)
btl4.exe boots, renders the world + a skinned mech, and runs a full drive → animate → target →
fire → damage → destroy → respawn single-player loop (task #52). 2-node MP is verified
end-to-end — replication, cross-pod targeting/damage/kill, beam visuals, replicant gait (tasks
#46-#51, multiplayer). All 8 cockpit canopies are authentic + the horizontal-FOV fix (task #55,
cockpit-view); the Gyroscope is live byte-exact with hit-bounce (task #56); the gauge system
is complete (gauges-hud). The engine/renderer/HAL/audio are done (WinTesla); the active work
is reconstructing each BT subsystem's authentic behavior from the binary. Remaining: pod-LAN
config, Mech-level update records, per-subsystem waves. [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).