Decoded the console<->pod message layout from the MUNGA framework headers
(the send/recv impl did not survive -- only headers + a test harness):
NetworkPacket = 16B NetworkPacketHeader + a Receiver::Message; the egg is
delivered as ReceiveEggFileMessage chunks (seq/totalLen/thisLen +
notationData[1000]), a full egg packet = 1040B (matches the VPX nb<=1040
cap). Console splits the mission notation file into <=1000B chunks; pod
reassembles + ACKs. Two bytes-on-the-wire details (stream framing +
PPC/x86 endianness) flagged for the first live capture. Full byte tables
in NET-NOTES.md.
Also moves the extracted console software (Console 4.10 PPC app + per-venue
Console.ini + fonts/logs, resource forks preserved) into
410console/4_10-console-extracted/.
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Console 4.10 (PowerPC PEF/CodeWarrior) + Console.ini extracted from the
.sit. Console.ini answers the open protocol question: the console<->pod
TCP port is 1501. Full cockpit endpoint roster recorded; our emulated pod
200.0.0.113 is the cockpit Puck. The real 6100 does not boot but is no
longer needed -- run Console 4.10 under SheepShaver. Only remaining
protocol unknown is the on-stream message framing.
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The ops console is a Power Macintosh 6100/66 (PowerPC) -> SheepShaver, with
the caveat that the 6100 ROM is incompatible (use a 7100/7500/8500 old-world
ROM; PPC apps are ROM-agnostic). Plan to leverage the real 6100: image its
drive for a faithful SheepShaver console and/or bridge it live to the
pcap-pod to capture the real egg protocol.
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NE2000 + Novell ODI chain (lsl/NE2000 MLID/odipkt) works against the
emulated card (odipkt at SINT 0x60, Ethernet_II). netnub -f btl4opt spawns
the game as btl4opt
The pods do TCP/IP over Ethernet (WATTCP + NetNub real-mode server;
ops console is master, pushes mission eggs to pods over TCP). Pod is a
static host on an isolated 200.0.0.0/24 LAN (200.0.0.113, console
200.0.0.1); -egg is the dev bypass of this path. Fork already has NE2000
+ pcap/slirp backends; since the emulated card is NE2000 not PCI Lance we
skip the Novell ODI chain and load a Crynwr NE2000 packet driver directly.
NET-NOTES.md has the full architecture + milestone plan (headline goal:
host-side stand-in console pushes an egg over the wire, no -egg bypass).
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