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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TeslaSuite
The Tesla cockpit-pod software, in one repository:
| Folder | What it is | Target |
|---|---|---|
Console/ |
TeslaConsole — the operator console (WinForms) that configures and drives the pods. A decompiled reconstruction of the original TeslaConsole.exe (now the modernized 4.11.4.x line), with a differential test suite pinning it to the original 4.11.3.37076 baseline. |
.NET Framework 4.8 |
Launcher/ |
TeslaLauncher — the pod-side Service (Session 0 RPC listener) + Agent (user-session app launcher). A clean rewrite of the original launcher. | .NET Framework 4.8 |
Contract/ |
Tesla.Contract — the shared Console↔Launcher RPC contract: wire types, the client, and the framed-JSON protocol. Emits assembly TeslaConsoleLaunchLib. |
.NET Framework 4.8 |
SecureConfig/ |
Tesla.SecureConfig — the first-boot pod provisioning protocol (UDP beacons, OFB crypto, RSA key exchange). Emits assembly TeslaSecureConfiguration. |
.NET Framework 4.8 |
vPOD/ |
vPOD — a virtual pod for testing the consoles without cockpit hardware: impersonates both the game client (Munga, TCP 1501) and the pod's TeslaLauncher service (provisioning + Site Management / Install Product on TCP 53290). | .NET Framework 4.8 |
The console and launcher talk over TCP 53290 using length-prefixed
System.Text.Json frames over an OFB-encrypted stream (Contract/PodRpcProtocol.cs),
dispatched by method name. The wire contract lives in one source project
(Contract/) referenced by both sides — a single source of truth, no
duplication or hand-syncing.
Note: Red Planet game control uses a separate protocol (Munga, TCP 1501) via the vendored
Munga Net.dll— not the RPC channel above. The game itself is C++ and lives in its own repo (gitea.mysticmachines.com/VWE/RP411.git).
Building
dotnet build TeslaSuite.sln -c Release
dotnet test Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests # differential + protocol + crypto guards
Pod deployment: Launcher/build.bat publishes the
framework-dependent net48 package into Launcher/dist/ (~1.6 MB zipped — no runtime to
install, since .NET Framework 4.8 ships in Windows 10/11), and
Launcher/install.bat deploys it on a cockpit PC (registers the
Service, sets up the Agent for auto-login, hardens the box). The operator console packages
the same way: Console/build-package.bat → Console/dist/,
installed with Console/install.bat. vPOD packages with
vPOD/pack.ps1 → vPOD/dist/vPOD.zip, deployable to a pod via the
console's Install Product (or run directly on any machine).
Layout notes
Console/original/TeslaConsole.exe— the 4.11.3.37076 reference baseline the differential tests compare against. Keep it.Console/lib/*.dll— the remaining vendored binary dependencies (Munga Net,BitmapLibrary,WeifenLuodocking). The originalTeslaConsoleLaunchLib.dllandTeslaSecureConfiguration.dllare also kept here, but only as byte-compatibility test baselines — both are now built from source (Contract/,SecureConfig/).Console/RedPlanet/Apps.xml— the data-driven product catalog (see the console's Site Management → Add Product / Register Product on Pods).
History
The system was modernized in 2026: the duplicated wire contract was extracted to a single
source project, BinaryFormatter (an RCE sink, and what pinned the launcher to an old
runtime) was replaced with the framed-JSON protocol, and the launcher was rebuilt — briefly
on net8/x64, then settled on net48 to match the console and ship a tiny, runtime-free
package. The whole console↔pod path (provisioning, install, launch) is validated on real
pods.