CydandClaude Fable 5
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The Steam-multiplayer prerequisite from the design doc: L4NET keeps hosts, message queues, and the deterministic mesh ordering, while connect/listen/accept/close, send/receive, startup/cleanup, the local interface list, and ip[:port] parsing move behind NetTransport (L4NETTRANSPORT.h). WinsockNetTransport carries the existing TCP behavior over verbatim - including the connect retry-while-refused loop the egg-ACK ordering relies on - and is the process default; NetTransport_Set installs a replacement before the network manager comes up. L4STEAMTRANSPORT.h documents the ISteamNetworkingSockets mapping per method (FakeIP keeps [pilots] entries as IPv4 strings) behind RP412_STEAM until the Steamworks SDK lands. Also fixed in passing: the ExclusiveBroadcast path sent sizeof(network_packet) - four bytes of pointer - instead of the message size, which would have sheared the stream framing had it ever fired. Verified: single-player race cycle (menu, race, results, menu, race) green; -net 8000 boots, listens for a console through the transport, and idles stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Red Planet 4.12
Red Planet is the VWE pod-racing game built on the in-house MUNGA engine
(Win32 / DirectX 9, MUNGA_L4 platform layer). The 4.12 line is the
consumer port: a version of Red Planet that can be sold on Steam and played
over internet multiplayer, without cockpit-pod hardware.
Forked from RP411 (the arcade/cockpit 4.11 line) with full history preserved.
Goals
- Steam distribution — Steamworks integration, SteamPipe builds, store-ready packaging.
- Internet multiplayer — take the engine's LAN-era WinSock networking online (NAT traversal, matchmaking, latency tolerance).
- No cockpit required — keyboard / mouse / gamepad input and on-screen replacements for the pod's RIO panel and plasma display, drawing on vRIO.
- Self-hosted sessions — in-game race setup/join replacing the operator-driven TeslaConsole flow.
See docs/RP412-ROADMAP.md for the plan and the Steam-multiplayer logistics.
Building
Unchanged from 4.11 for now — see BUILD.md
(VS 2005/2008 + DirectX SDK June 2010, Release|Win32, output Release\rpl4opt.exe).
Toolchain modernization is a roadmap item.
Related repositories
| Repo | Role |
|---|---|
| RP411 | Upstream arcade source (this repo's base) |
| VRIO | Virtual RIO panel + vPLASMA display — input bindings and display emulation to fold in |
| TeslaSuite | TeslaConsole / Launcher / vPOD — the arcade session-control stack 4.12 replaces (and a reference for the Munga control protocol, TCP 1501) |