VGL_LABS cockpit test suite as pod-launch 'test' mode
The WC hang, root-caused in three layers (each necessary):
1. WC was rendered-samples + 100ms-capped interpolation; AWEUTIL's poll
storm (~550k port-ops/s) starved the render thread of awe_lock, so the
clock crawled ~90x slow. Fixed: free-running host-clock derivation +
a fairness gate so the render thread can always take the lock.
2. Free-running at true 44.1kHz still failed: trapped port reads cost
~30us -- MORE than one 22.7us tick -- so consecutive reads skipped
counter values, and AWEUTIL's WaitUntilWC (decoded at COM offset
0x5F42) exits only on EQUALITY with a target tick: skipped value =
missed target = 1.49s wrap penalty, or forever.
3. Advancing +1 per read still failed: WaitUntilWC reads WC TWICE per
iteration, so its equality sample saw only every 2nd value -- wrong
parity = infinite loop. Final semantics: during a poll storm the
counter advances once per FOUR reads (every value observable by all
of AWEUTIL's loop shapes; its 8192-unchanged-reads dead-clock bailout
never trips), and resyncs to true wall time after any 50ms idle gap.
Result: the full stock TEST.BAT (DIAGNOSE + AWEUTIL /S on both cards)
completes in seconds.
Also: pod-launch 'test' mode -> vwetest.conf (stock TEST.BAT -> TSTALL),
DOSBox window defaults to 900,600 in test mode (the DOS screen is the
suite's UI), VWE_AWE_LOG gains storm bursts with guest cs:ip + caller and
rare-read tracing (the instrumentation that cracked this).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
render-bridge/freeze.ps1: PyInstaller onefile of live_bridge.py + Dave's
vrboard/vrview/vrview_gl (+glcontext collected for moderngl) -> dist\
renderer.exe (~33 MB). GL backend live-verified from a pure-dist launch
(no --root/--renderer overrides) on 2026-07-10. package.ps1 bundles the
frozen exe automatically when present; DEPLOYMENT-PLAN's renderer OPEN
item is resolved. Ignore the build-artifact dirs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retire the bundled-silent-installer requirement: postinstall now detects an
existing Npcap service and moves on, warns clearly when absent, and still
honors a bundled deploy\npcap.exe if one is shipped. package.ps1 no longer
flags the missing bundle as a warning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
configure.ps1: bay-IP pick now filters to Up physical adapters and fails
loudly on multiple candidates instead of coin-tossing by InterfaceMetric;
-BayIp forces the choice (and permits binding a virtual adapter on a dev
rig); -ConsoleIp sets WATTCP gateway/nameserver (default: the bay IP --
needs only to be a live on-subnet host, the console DIALS the pod);
-Root is validated up front.
DEPLOYMENT-PLAN: record the four first-smoke-test findings (2026-07-10,
end-to-end egg->mission achieved): SendToRxAdapters on the pod NIC, host
must not hold the game IP, NIC checksum offload silently kills co-located
console->pod IP (ARP works, TCP silent -- disable offload+LSO), and bt/rp
require sound + a packaged renderer (closes the renderer OPEN item: ship one).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- net-boot/loop_rp.bat: GO.BAT-style netnub loop for RP (mirror of loop.bat,
retargeted to rpl4opt). deploy/net_rp.conf.tmpl now calls it instead of the
single-shot netnub + DOS pause -- the deployable runs in a loop until the
supervisor kills DOSBox (per operator: no single-shot in the product).
- DLL closure resolved: dosbox-x.exe is a 182MB STATIC build -- import table is
only Windows system DLLs, delay-import table empty, libpng/SDL/zlib embedded.
Nothing to bundle; wpcap.dll comes from the Npcap install. package.ps1's "no
DLLs" case is now informational, and the plan/README note the static build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Network-agnostic, air-gapped pod install for the two DOSBox titles (BT/RP 4.10),
fitting the existing TeslaConsole/TeslaLauncher pod-bay architecture.
emulator/DEPLOYMENT-PLAN.md
Full design: bridge on the one NIC (pods form a source-proven P2P TCP mesh, so
NAT/slirp is out); launcher keeps the bay IP, the DOSBox guest bridges at
bayIP+100 (egg/mesh/game endpoint); two-edit +100 convention (postinstall +
console DOSBox flag); static, air-gapped, <=32 pods.
emulator/pod-launch/ (C# net8 supervising entry-point)
Creates a Job Object (KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE), launches DOSBox-X + the render bridge
into it and blocks -- kill this process and both die (kernel-enforced, even on
a hard TerminateProcess of a hung session; verified). Mode dispatch: bt/rp
wired (also serve camera + live mission-review via egg hostType); review +
diagnostics recognized but fail clean until their DOS launch args are known.
emulator/deploy/ (install side)
postinstall.bat (thin elevated wrapper) + configure.ps1 (NIC detect, realnic
bind as a contiguous letter-leading GUID fragment, game IP = bayIP+100, stable
MAC, render net_*.conf templates, stamp WATTCP.CFG my_ip) + tokenized conf
templates + package.ps1 (assemble the zip). Render/bind/stamp + packaging
verified against a scratch tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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