CydandClaude Fable 5
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Round five reached the race - full mesh on all three machines, eggs, ACKs, mission running - but the owner raced ALONE. Cause: the engine self-runs a pod at WaitingForLaunch when its console host is not online (the arcade no-console fallback), and the owner''s in-process console never connects to its own pod. On fast-loading owners the self-run beat the console''s staging gate, so RunMission was never sent and the members sat staged at black screens until someone hit the & emergency-abort key. gConsoleMarshalsLaunch (APPMGR) now tells the engine an in-process console owns the launch: the network-race install sets it and the owner holds at WaitingForLaunch with everyone else; plain single player leaves it False and auto-runs as always. Verified on loopback: all pods staged - RUN is back in the hosted-race log and both the hosted race and the single-player cycle pass. Also: unhandled-exception minidumps (rpl4crash.dmp beside the exe, dbghelp loaded lazily) so test-machine crashes hand back stacks. 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) |