CydandClaude Fable 5
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Full input-surface audit of the PC keyboard channel. The arcade abort was the typed ampersand character (0x26), but the Win32 port feeds WM_KEYUP VIRTUAL-KEY codes into the same channel - and VK_UP is also 0x26. The hat look-up key aborted the mission: that was every mystery abort across the multiplayer test rounds. Likewise the E key (0x45, the right pedal!) dumped the event queue on every release. Disarmed: plain 0x26 and E are swallowed at the L4 layer; the abort answers only to the deliberate Alt+Q chord (translated to the legacy engine code, so APP.cpp is untouched); the debug toggles (wireframe Alt+W, predator vision Alt+V, frame dump Alt+F, perf stats, event queue on Alt+E now) arm only with RP412DEVKEYS=1. The cheat-string manager has no PC-keyboard strings and the trace-log keys are compiled out of release - both inert. Verified live: a volley of VK_UP releases mid-race leaves the mission running; Alt+Q aborts on demand. Docs and the dist README updated. 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) |