Walking the bin-page DMA chains enumerated 898 SEND payload programs per frame:
4 = the standard end-of-frame pipeline; ~860 = the scene's per-primitive
coefficient blocks at 0x815f000+, far beyond the old dump window. Their
geometry sits in plain screen-space IEEE floats (+0x14/+0x18 and +0x24/+0x28):
433 star positions + 389 streaks radiating from a convergence point = the
Star Trek warp-speed starfield, reconstructed from micro-code compiled by the
original firmware on the emulated i860. Readout §06 now renders the warp field
from the embedded position/segment data. Tools: dumpcontent.py (payload-region
dump), content_frame.py (chain walk + payload parse + reconstruction).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 4.8
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