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CydandClaude Opus 4.8 aadda7f9a5 Cockpit camera complete + namedpipe transport + 832x512 native res
Render bridge (live_bridge.py, vrview_gl.py):
- Hat glances render (left/right frame the canopy, hat-down = clean rear).
  Root bug was a stale _ckpt['fix'] key -> KeyError every glance frame ->
  render aborted (screen froze on hold, snapped back on release). The glance
  itself is the authentic eye-DCS action-0x1f reflush fp_cam already applies.
- Torso twist turret-true (root-axis yaw, zero parallax); lasers follow torso.
- Rear glance drops the canopy shell for a clean view (original-hardware
  behavior); mission-fade shroud 9fd hidden.
- Wireframe debug mode (VRVIEW_WIREFRAME / 'w' key), scene-pass scoped.
- Renderer output = 832x512, the dPL3 board's native framebuffer res.

DOSBox-X fork: namedpipe serial backend (serialnamedpipe.cpp/.h) for
vRIO/vPLASMA, replacing com0com; overlapped non-blocking I/O; typed frames
(0x00 data / 0x01 DTR+RTS). Tracked copies + apply steps in vpx-device.

Docs: COCKPIT-CAGE-NOTES (full glance/twist/rear forensics), XP-PORT-PLAN
(back-burnered), RIO-NOTES (namedpipe + keypad), pipe/egg conf variants.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 10:08:15 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 a0a4260fd4 Sound: dual-AWE32 EMU8000 emulation -- the pod has audio
Vendored 86Box EMU8000 core (GPL-2, emu8k.cpp/.h + shim) plus vweawe.cpp:
two cards at the production addresses (0x620/0x640 register triplets),
rear-card DSP/mixer stub at 0x240, synthesis on an autonomous render
thread with direct winmm output so sustained voices ride through
emulation-thread stalls (RIO staging retries) like the real silicon did.
WC sample-counter interpolation between render chunks keeps HMI SOS
busy-waits fast. VWE_AWE32/VWE_AWE_ROM/VWE_AWE_RAM_KB/VWE_AWE_SHIFT/
VWE_AWE_LEAD_MS/VWE_AWE_DUMP/VWE_AWE_LOG env knobs.

emulator/roms: the AWE32 1MGM GM ROM dumped from our own pod card (SF2)
plus the reconstructed raw image the emulated EMU8000 loads. The HMI
driver refuses the AUDIO*.RES SoundFont upload without it (banks declare
irom=1MGM) -- that was the root cause of the first silent runs; full
debug chain in SOUND-NOTES.md. Repo serves the pod-owner community only.

.gitignore: drop the ROM excludes and un-ignore ALPHA_1/ and sda4/
(committed separately).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 19:40:15 -05:00
CydandClaude Fable 5 e3c090695d Phase 1 complete: captured VPX boot conversation from shipped binary
Built DOSBox-X from source with a custom VPX link-adapter logging
device (vpx-device/vpxlog.cpp) and captured the game's outbound boot
sequence. Findings:

- Register map confirmed against LINKIO.C: outputData 0x151,
  outputStatus 0x153 (polled bit0), resetRoot 0x160, analyseRoot 0x161.
- Reset preamble captured exactly (analyse=0, reset 0->1->0 + status inits).
- The game streams 85298 bytes to outputData that are BYTE-FOR-BYTE
  identical to VRENDMON.BTL; first byte 0xF0 = transputer boot-from-link
  primary-bootstrap length. Protocol stage 1 (reset + monitor download)
  fully characterized; no hidden bulk/interrupt path.
- Production cockpit dump ALPHA_1 added (git-ignored): its BT is v1.1.0.6
  with a VRENDMON.BTL byte-identical to the captured stream, so this
  result reflects the exact cockpit software. ALPHA_1 is the reference
  image going forward (carries RP + production pod/network boot chain).

Adds analyze_capture.py, capture.conf, PHASE1-RESULTS.md. DOSBox-X
source tree and capture artifacts are git-ignored.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-02 22:46:20 -05:00