Six TUs born in one wave (4-agent re-hosting workflow from the BT411 donors
+ inline integration): BTL4GAUG (16 widget primitives + 5 connections, the
TU anchor @004c3f6c), BTL4GAU2 (13 composite panel clusters), BTL4GAU3
(PilotList/PlayerStatus/SectorDisplay/MessageBoard/mapping group), BTL4RDR
(the MapDisplay radar vs the authentic surviving header), BTL4GRND (the
real renderer: L4LampManager + L4Warehouse + BuildConfigurationFile with
the 19-entry BT registry chained onto the engine table). btl4.lib grows
7 -> 11 members; all 50 game TUs compile; link clean.
VERIFIED LIVE: with L4GAUGE=640x480x16 the interpreter parses the full
authentic L4GAUGE.CFG, Bhk1Init runs, ColorMapperArmor binds the live
mech's damage zones by name (cross-chassis names take the authentic inert
path), and the complete mutual missile fight runs with the cockpit stack
updating from real combat -- 16/16 rounds, 138 zone hits, zero faults.
Gauges-off regressions untouched.
Engine bring-up deviation (documented): ParseAttribute normalizes
unpublished attribute names to a shared writable zero cell -- the 1995
GaugeConnectionDirectOf ctor hard-derefs its source (first boot crashed
there); widgets on unpublished names draw static zeros and light up
automatically as the attribute waves publish the 1995 CFG spellings the
bindings already carry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reconstructed tree now produces a runnable binary with the authentic
1995 toolchain (BC4.52 / tlink32 / DPMI32):
- BTL4.CPP main TU reconstructed from the 4.11 Ghidra decomp (FUN_0040109c)
+ the 4.10 binary's own string pool + surviving RPL4TOOL.CPP house style;
probe_main.cpp scaffold retired (BTL4.NOTES.md documents every decoded call)
- L4NET.CPP staged: L4NetworkManager ctor/dtor + 10 vtable-pulled virtuals
(standalone-benign ones no-op, network ones Fail loudly) + NetNub client
globals (Net_Common_Ptr=NULL routes L4File to its plain-DOS path)
- build410.sh: libs now built in the AUTHENTIC makefile member order
(MUNGA.MAK / mungal4.mak / BT.MAK / BTL4.MAK). Order is load-bearing:
tlink emits static-init records in module pull order, and alphabetical
order booted into a null-vptr crash (IcomManager::ClassDerivations
constructing before parent NetworkClient::ClassDerivations). Also fixed
stage_link to the proven 32-bit lib set (SOSDBXC+SOSMBXC, no WATTCPLG)
- BOXTREE.HPP MemoryBlock unify, BTL4GRND notify stubs, remaining engine
backfills (audio/gauge/resource/stream TUs) that closed the deep ledger
Smoke test (DOSBox-X + 32RTM, copy of the pod BT tree, our exe swapped in):
BattleTech v4.10
BTL4Application::BTL4Application
l4net.cpp(22): L4NetworkManager -- l4net.cpp not yet reconstructed
Static init, main, -egg parse, BTL4.RES load (version 1.0.6 check passes),
ApplicationManager and the BTL4Application ctor chain all execute real
reconstructed code; boot halts at the first staged Fail() as designed.
Next brick: the real l4net.cpp body.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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