# airlock_RP411

A community build of Red Planet 4.11, found on another site and kept here whole
rather than cherry-picked, so the provenance of anything taken from it stays
checkable. This is somebody else's working copy of the game: game data, the
binaries it ran with, and the batch files that launched it.

Nothing in this folder is read at build time or ships in a release. It is a
reference, not a source. What the tree actually builds from is
[assets/RP411/](../RP411/).

## What came out of it

* **`RPL4.RES`** — promoted to `assets/RP411/RPL4.RES` in `f7c7000`, after
  checking it was a strict superset of what we had: mapping streams
  byte-identical, `vole` identical, boots against our assets, log identical to
  the baseline. It carries eleven vehicles and seven maps our file did not.
* **`GAUGE/L4GAUGE.CFG`** — promoted alongside it. Adds `blktrnInit`,
  `neutInit` and eight `blkr*Init` blocks, and fixes `dragonInit` to include
  `twoBoosterInit`.
* **`Console Configs/`** — copied to
  [tools/console-config/](../../tools/console-config/). The only place the
  vehicles, hull classes and tracks are named in words; both pages read it.

## What is still only here

* **`AUDIO/*.wav`** — all 223 differ from ours. Whether they are better
  masters or just different renderings has not been established, so they have
  not been promoted.
* `AUDIO/LiftCut01c.wav`, `AUDIO/ReleaseMine01a.wav` and two `temp` files have
  no counterpart in `assets/RP411/` at all.

Everything else — 767 of the 998 files — is byte-identical to
`assets/RP411/`, so git stores it once and tracking this folder costs far less
than its 111 MB on disk suggests.

## The binaries

`rpl4opt.exe`, `sleep.exe` and `libsndfile-1.dll` are the community build's own,
not ours. `rpl4opt.exe` here is a 4.11 binary and is not what
[BUILD.md](../../BUILD.md) produces. Do not ship or run it expecting our
behaviour; it is kept so the archive stays intact.