The open question under every heat bracket was what the 1995 sim does with
time. Answered at the byte level:
* FUN_0041c018 IS the arcade Simulation::PerformAndWatch: slice =
(till.ticks - last.ticks) / DAT_0052140c, stored, Perform(slice) --
VARIABLE-STEP in real SECONDS, line-for-line the WinTesla SIMULATE.cpp
body. Every dt-carrying reconstruction is unit-faithful; no tick/second
gap exists anywhere.
* The myomer heat term's ONE caller is the unexported MyomersSimulation
body @0x4b8b9a (E8-scan + raw disasm; export gap): once per Perform, raw
slice, gated measuredVoltage>0 only. The dt-less kinetic pulse therefore
fires at the FRAME cadence -- 28 Hz nominal, sagging under load
(emergent hardware, not a code constant).
* Mover velocity is u/s (dead-reckoner @0x421f7c: pos += vel x ticksD/28),
so the v operand is unit-faithful too.
The 0.5 "loaded-rate" witness bracket is RETIRED -- it modeled the sag as
a constant, wrong in exactly the reported scenario (open-field cruising is
a light scene; the pod held ~28 there). kSeekHeatCalib = 1.0.
Measured at the faithful rate (madcat cruise benches): recommended gear
equilibrates ~1450 -- inside the authored degradation band as a SOFT 20%
output governor (heatFactor = 1 - d^2/range^2), weapons untouched at
~110-150, ZERO jams, zero bay fires from movement alone; supercharge
~1770 (deep governor -- the manual's own expert-mode warning). That is
the authored system: degradeT=1000 is governor onset, failT=2000 the
cliff, and the coolant-loop controls are the player's lever.
New leads filed in open-questions: the climb term's gravity operand
samples 0 (bridge points at a dead cell); the engine Mover's own gravity
subtraction is per-frame dt-less (port impact unread); gait-noise phantom
acceleration feeds the accel term.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
