Baseline boot test under DOSBox-X confirms the emulation architecture
empirically. Key findings:
- Borland 32RTM/DPMI runtime works under DOSBox-X (risk retired).
- BTLIVE ships a version-mismatched BTL4.RES (1.0.1.2 vs EXE 1.0.1.4);
BTRAVINE (1.1.0.6) is self-consistent and matches this repo's source
(BTL4VER.HPP), so it is the development image.
- With the matched image the game boots through the resource check and
BTL4Application construction, polls the RIO on COM1, then reads the
VPX link at port 0x150, gets 0xffffffff, and fails rcv_protocol with
'length 65535 too big' — the exact VR_COMMS.C path the plan predicted.
Adds emulator/baseline.conf (repro) and emulator/PHASE0-RESULTS.md.
Working binaries (dosbox-x/, image/) are git-ignored.
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emulator/PLAN.md: run the unported DOS Rel 4.10 games in the
surviving cockpits via a DOSBox-X fork with an HLE device
impersonating the Division VPX board at its C012/B004 link
interface (I/O port 0x150 per BTLIVE SETENV.BAT), rendering the
frame stream in OpenGL. Cockpit RIO (COM1) and plasma (COM2) pass
through to the game's original serial drivers (L4RIO.CPP).
Eight phases with acceptance criteria, evidence table, protocol
appendices, risks, and test strategy. Gauge displays deferred.
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Cracks the DIV-BIZ2 binary format (BGF/BMF) using Division's own
reader source (DPL3/BIZREAD.C) as reference: block stream, 14 vertex
layouts, pmesh/strip connectivity, LOD nesting, embedded materials.
Adds SVT raw-texture decoding, 1995-dialect VGF support (implicit
CONNECTION_LIST, header SCALE), and a whole-drive scene audit.
108 of 241 scenes on the Glaze drive are recoverable; 26 are curated
into restoration/vwe-archive.html, a self-contained WebGL gallery:
Star Trek, Hull Pressure, BattleTech (incl. the polar-map mech
lineup), Red Planet's Mars-canal raceway, and the Canyon demos.
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Parses the DIV-VIZ2 formats (VGF geometry, VMF materials, TGA
textures, SPL splines, SCN scenes) from the STDAVE directory of the
Glaze drive and re-renders VWE's unreleased 1996 Star Trek pod
scenes in a self-contained WebGL page: the Enterprise-D among
drifting starfields (TREK.SCN) and the Klingon flyby (KLNGVID.SCN).
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Records the contents of the recovered VWE developer hard drive
(git-ignored sda4/): pod lab infrastructure, Division renderer
source with i860/Pixel-Planes 5 code, runnable game builds, and
unreleased projects (Star Trek prototype, Hull Pressure, Renegade
Legion, and the Starship Troopers pitch that became DisneyQuest's
Invasion!). Includes a source-completeness analysis showing the
engine libraries are rebuildable but most game-logic sources are
absent from this release cut.
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Archival snapshot of the Virtual World Entertainment Tesla cockpit
software, 1994-1996: MUNGA engine and L4 pod layer source (Borland
C++ 5.0), BT/RP game code, and game content (models, audio, maps,
gauges, Division renderer data). Includes third-party libraries:
Division dVS/DPL graphics, HMI SOS audio, WATTCP networking.
Files are preserved byte-for-byte (.gitattributes disables all
line-ending conversion). README.md documents the layout, target
hardware, and toolchain.
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