* Seamless mouse via VMware backdoor + fs-backed TOOLS share
v86 (rebuilt libv86.js from fork branch vmware-mouse): new VMwareMouse
device on port 0x5658 implementing GETVERSION/ABSPOINTER_* fed by the
existing mouse-absolute bus event. Move-only packets are coalesced so
the guest cursor never falls more than one frame behind. Emits
vmware-absolute-mouse on the bus when the guest driver toggles mode.
Renderer: listens for that event, keeps the v86 mouse enabled without
pointer lock, drops the startup auto-capture, and hides the host cursor
over the canvas (.seamless-mouse) while the driver is active. Falls back
to click-to-capture when no driver is present.
SMB: TOOLS share is now backed by the bundled guest-tools/ directory
(subdirectories work) with the synthetic README.TXT/_MAPZ.BAT overlaid
at the root. resolve() routes by tid; SEARCH and FIND_FIRST2 share a
single listForSearch helper.
guest-tools/mouse-driver/: VBMOUSE.EXE + VBMOUSE.DRV from VBADOS
(Javier S. Pedro, GPLv2). Load the TSR from AUTOEXEC.BAT and set
mouse.drv=vbmouse.drv in SYSTEM.INI to enable seamless mouse.
Also: tsconfig rootDir "." for TS 6.0 (preserves dist/src/ layout).
* docs: windows95-base now includes vmware-abspointer
* Rewrite update-v86.js for the current build pipeline
Both v86 fixes we've been carrying are now real branches on the fork
(PR #1540 electron-renderer-fs-loader, PR #1541 ide-shared-registers)
combined as felixrieseberg/v86:windows95-base. update-v86.js no longer
needs to patch sources at build time — it just builds whatever's checked
out and copies the result.
Gone: the fallback-to-copy.sh path, the skew-day check, the structural
regex patches for load_file/exportSymbol/fetch-bind, the phantom-slave
guard (both are in the branch), the --js-only flag. If you don't have
cargo/clang/java/closure, the script fails loudly — no silent fallbacks.
Added: sanity checks against the installed libv86.js for the invariants
our SMB integration and parcel-build shim depend on, so if upstream
changes something load-bearing we see it as a WARN at update time
instead of a runtime failure.
Tested end-to-end: 5/5 sanity checks, fresh boot SUCCESS in 32s.
* docs and skills: capture SMB/v86/testing knowledge from the session
- docs/smb-share.md: user-facing SMB integration overview (how to mount in
Win95, what's implemented, what's not). Points at the protocol-level
README inside src/renderer/smb/ for wire-level gotchas.
- .claude/skills/probe-win95: how to boot and test the VM without a human.
Env vars, file locations, failure modes, the XT scancode keyboard trick,
bisect rules of thumb.
- .claude/skills/update-v86: how to pull upstream v86 changes, what the
five sanity-check WARNs mean, how to retire the fork branches when the
PRs merge upstream.
.gitignore narrowed to exclude only the runtime dirs (scheduled_tasks.lock,
worktrees) instead of the whole .claude/ tree, so skills can be committed.
