Settings -> Enable Custom Bitmaps was a static bool with no backing store:
it defaulted to off on every launch, so an operator had to re-tick it each
session and any custom plasma art was silently ignored until they did. New
ConsoleSettings persists machine-level menu toggles as XML in
%ProgramData%\Tesla Console\console.settings, alongside RPDefaults.rpd /
BTDefaults.btd / local.siteconfig. It is loaded once from Main and never
from a static initializer: the differential suite drives PlasmaBitmaps
directly and must keep seeing the original defaults rather than whatever
this machine has saved. A missing file is the first-run case; a corrupt one
is ignored and rewritten by the next toggle, because losing a menu setting
must never stop the console starting.
Custom art is now version-controlled and rolls with the release. New
Console\Plasma Images\ is copied into the package, and the lookup searches
%ProgramData%\Tesla Console\Plasma Images first and the exe-relative folder
second, so a release can never clobber a site's own name bitmaps.
install.bat creates the data-dir folder before the icacls grant so an
unelevated operator can write it. Ships with three 128x32 name bitmaps
(Deadmeat, Muerte, Phrogg); Muerte arrived as "Muerte_128x32-2.bmp", a name
the lookup can never build, so it is renamed to match its pilot.
Two fixes fell out of making the flag sticky. Path.Combine ran on the raw
participant name outside the try block, so with the option on a pilot named
"A:B" threw ArgumentException straight out of egg generation; names that
cannot be a Windows file name now just render procedurally. And the art was
loaded with Image.FromFile, which keeps the bitmap backed by the file and
locked for its whole lifetime — it is copied out through a stream now, so
art can be swapped between missions without restarting the console.
Verified against the built net40 exe: all three shipped bitmaps resolve by
pilot name, ProgramData wins over the shipped copy, a wrong-size file is
ignored, an illegal-character name does not throw, the file is not left
locked, and the settings round-trip and corrupt-file tolerance both hold.
Diff suite 106/106.
Version bumped 4.11.4.4 -> 4.11.4.5 across Console, Launcher, vPOD, the
install/build banners, the diff-suite version assertion and the README's
latest-release pointer.
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The provisioning text on the pod's plasma panel came up garbled — stale
content bleeding through, new text overlapping at the wrong position.
Root cause recovered from the dumped PD01D221 controller firmware
(vrio/PlasmaNew): PlasmaWriter.ClearAll() sent ESC J, which on this
controller is NOT a clear — it toggles an orientation/mode bit — so the
panel never cleared and the cursor never homed.
Fix: ClearAll() now sends the real commands ESC @ (clear active buffer,
reset text state) + ESC L (home to 0,0), and the writer hides the cursor
once at open with ESC G 0 — exactly what the game and the ROM's own demo
do. Verified by running the launcher's actual byte streams through the
firmware-modeled vPLASMA emulator: the old ESC J path left stale pixels
(732 lit vs 404); the new path renders byte-identical to a freshly
cleared panel (404 lit, cursor hidden).
Version bumped 4.11.4.3 -> 4.11.4.4 across Launcher, Console, vPOD, the
install/build banners, and the diff-suite version assertion. This cuts a
clean release boundary that also carries the earlier field fixes
(process-tree kill on Stop, Win10 install.bat icacls quoting, real system
volume + pre-uninstall opt-in, and the volume menu check-mark fix).
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The Launcher's XP11 port (8730b9b) now extends to everything: one net40
flavor across Console, vPOD, Contract, and SecureConfig (Newtonsoft.Json
everywhere; the net48/System.Text.Json legs and their #if splits are gone
since nothing consumed them).
Console (net40, single TFM like the Launcher):
- The ~31 BinaryFormatter bitmap blobs in the .resx files became raw
embedded files under assets/icons/ (extracted byte-faithfully via a
serialization surrogate — the animated square_throbber.gif survives),
loaded by Properties.Resources.EmbeddedBitmap/EmbeddedIcon. Reason:
System.Resources.Extensions' DeserializingResourceReader is net461+
and cannot load on net40. Strings stay in the .resx.
- IReadOnlyList -> IList in AppRegistry (net45+ interface).
vPOD (net40, single TFM):
- Zip extraction now shares the Launcher's MiniZip.cs (linked source), so
the diff-test install round-trip exercises it against ZipArchive zips.
- RPC args as JTokens; LaunchApps.json persistence via Newtonsoft;
Thread.VolatileRead instead of Volatile.Read.
Contract/SecureConfig: net40-only; Client/** (PodManagerConnection) now
ships in the one build. The Launcher package gains
TeslaSecureConfiguration.dll as a dependency of the client half.
Tests: the net48 xunit host loads the net40 assemblies (both CLR4), so
the suite exercises exactly what ships — 106/106 green. Also verified
live: net40 console provisioned, managed, and ran a full RP mission
against net40 vPOD (beacon/passphrase/RSA, 53290 RPC, egg load,
Run/Stop Mission).
Version: 4.11.4.3 across Launcher, Console, and vPOD (vPOD joins the
suite version line; was 1.0.0). Ship the dotNetFx40 redistributable in
Launcher/assets for XP-era pods.
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- Console AssemblyVersion/AssemblyFileVersion 4.11.3.37076 -> 4.11.4.1. The
recovered console is no longer a byte-faithful copy of the original baseline;
it is the modernized 4.11.4.x line.
- Launcher Service + Agent Version -> 4.11.4.1 (unified suite version). The Agent
tray menu header now shows the running version ("Tesla Launcher Agent v4.11.4.1").
- Differential tests: the identity guard now expects the original at 4.11.3.37076
and the recovered at 4.11.4.1 (not identical); the public-member surface check
strips Version= stamps before comparing, since generic-argument signatures embed
the assembly version (we compare type names, not versions). 73 tests green.
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Co-locate the two cockpit-pod projects into a single repository:
- Console/ : TeslaConsole, the net48 WinForms operator console (decompiled
reconstruction) plus its differential + catalog test suite.
- Launcher/ : TeslaLauncher, the net6 pod-side Service + Agent rewrite.
Adds a combined TeslaSuite.sln, root README documenting the shared wire
contract (and its current duplication, the main follow-up), and a root
.gitignore. Histories were not preserved per request; this is a fresh start
from the current working state of both projects.
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