CydandClaude Fable 5
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Per the user: the game never reads the pilot keypad, so the numpad becomes the flight cluster - 8/2/4/6 stick, 7/9 pedals, 0 trigger - with Shift/Ctrl as throttle up/down and Alt as reverse thrust. That frees the entire letter board: W/A/S/D/Q/E return to their printed MFD bank positions and B goes back to being the gap key, so the default profile now carries the complete unmodified vRIO bank layout. The keypad addresses stay bindable (arcade key events) but ship unbound. Alt as a held flight control meant every release popped the window menu and stole focus - WndProc now eats SC_KEYMENU. Shift/Ctrl/Alt key-name aliases added to the parser alongside the .NET names. Profile parses clean (59 key buttons, 8 key axes); single-player cycle and key-bomb tests green (Alt+Q abort unaffected). Machines with an existing bindings.txt keep their old map - delete the file to take the new defaults. 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) |