CydandClaude Fable 5
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- Ecosystem doc: new section on the TeslaRel410 project — custom DOSBox-X fork HLE-emulating the Division VPX board to run the original, unmodified Tesla 4.10 BattleTech/Red Planet DOS binaries on current Windows 10 pod hardware (RIO COM1 / plasma COM2 passthrough). Networking facts for SiteLink: WATTCP (real TCP/IP) via NetNub over emulated NE2000 bridged by pcap -> routable in principle; BOOTP is broadcast -> site-local provisioning. - Clarified BT411 and RP411 as the two native Win32 Tesla 4.10 reconstructions (per operator), complementary to the emulation path. - Brainstorm: new game-linking subsection for the emulated originals + open question 11 (NetNub cross-subnet addressing, 30 Hz sim latency tolerance). - CTCL naming note: provenance question is out with VWE veterans. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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SiteLink
Linking multiple VWE Pod Bays together to play games across the internet.
A Pod Bay today is an air-gapped network of ~20 computers: 1 command console, 1 printer, 2 review stations (Live Cam & Mission Review), and 16 cockpit computers. SiteLink is the project to connect those islands — so a bay in one city can field a lance against a bay in another, share a queue, share voice, and (eventually) be commanded as one fleet.
Seed concept (2026-07-10)
Organize each site into its own
10.0.y.xsubnet (site 1 =10.0.1.x, site 2 =10.0.2.x, …), VPN them all together into a single10.0.0.0/16, then collect every site's.siteconfigand merge them for a master console that can command the entire fleet.
That concept is the anchor of this repo. The analysis, alternatives, and open questions live in the docs below.
Contents
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| docs/PODBAY-ECOSYSTEM.md | Survey of the existing bay software stack — every component, every protocol/port, with source pointers into the sibling repos. The ground truth SiteLink has to work with. |
| docs/BRAINSTORM.md | The design record: goals, the seed proposal analyzed, addressing plan, VPN topology options (routed vs bridged), master-console vs federation, per-game linking analysis, shared services, security, open questions, and a phased roadmap. |
Related repositories (gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE)
| Repo | Role |
|---|---|
TeslaSuite |
TeslaConsole (operator console), TeslaLauncher (pod service), the Console↔Pod RPC contract, SecureConfig provisioning, and vPOD (virtual pod — our cross-site test double). |
firestorm |
BattleTech: Firestorm — the MW4/Gameleap-engine game the 16 cockpits run. DirectPlay 4 multiplayer. Contains the drafted 16→32 player-cap plan that a two-bay link needs. |
RP411 |
Classic Red Planet — Tesla 4.10 reconstruction as a native Win32 port (MUNGA engine + L4 platform layer, DX9). Console-controlled via Munga protocol, TCP 1501. |
BT411 |
Classic BattleTech — Tesla 4.10 reconstruction on the shared RP411/MUNGA Windows engine. Console streams the mission egg over TCP; pods mesh with each other. |
TeslaRel410 |
The original 1994–96 Tesla 4.10 source/content archive plus a custom DOSBox-X emulator (HLE of the Division VPX render board) to run the original unmodified DOS games on today's Windows pod hardware — cockpit RIO and plasma passed through on COM1/COM2, pod networking via emulated NE2000. |
(local PQS/) |
Pod Queue System — PHP/MySQL front-of-house: registration, callsigns, queue, and the HTTP endpoints the game/console poll for the next mission + roster. |
Status
Brainstorm / design phase. Nothing here touches a live bay yet.