Thief II: The Metal Age demo

Source: https://archive.org/details/ThiefIiTheMetalAgeDemo Metadata artifact thief2.exe,136880529 bytes, SHA1 e812b6d8a41c7755f87e1e17bf8e7ef11a57de5a. Metadata identifies Looking Glass Studios/Eidos demo,2000; listing contains a1999 demo payload. Private local compatibility fixture only, no redistribution/deployment authorized. Not in current corpus/public registry or existing task list when selected.

Source preflight 2026-10-12 07:06Z

Evidence scratch/runs/20261012T0706Z-thief2-preflight/. Standard endpoint initially appeared stalled. The original completed at07:10:51Z after the last status check. An unchecked mirror retry started at07:11:03Z and overwrote that full file with partial bytes. Original download.json and listing.txt record the earlier complete download, not current payload validity. Current-payload.json is authoritative:59440936 bytes, SHA1 0ea8dbb7247fa7c4a022eb846dc06cee4e72d660, NOT the required complete hash. It was renamed /home/user/thief2-demo-preflight/thief2.exe.part on bx_gqubeuhs before stop. Check the final snapshot; a pre-rename snapshot may retain it as thief2.exe. Rehash either file before using it. Next resume the partial from https://ia801501.us.archive.org/21/items/ThiefIiTheMetalAgeDemo/thief2.exe with a unique destination and no overlapping download, then verify full hash. Use curl -C - with a sufficiently long bounded timeout after checking range support. Never extract or qualify the partial file.

Complete-download listing shows61 files/168447241 expanded bytes, including thf2demo/MOVIES, mission miss11.mis, readme.wri and installer components. Next extract verified payload with7z, inspect original executable/imports and readme, then bounded remote-only launch. No game executable extracted or launch/input/browser/audio/FPS qualification yet. Exact missing prepared path: /home/user/thief2-demo-preflight/game/ (not created).

Verified resume and startup (2026-10-12 07:23Z–07:28Z)

Remote bx_vujsz54x resumes the single partial with curl -C -; no overlapping writer. Full 136880529-byte SHA1 e812b6d8a41c7755f87e1e17bf8e7ef11a57de5a verified, then 7z extraction succeeds. Evidence 20261012T0723Z-thief2-resume. Original thf2demo.exe SHA256: 5e5f831ba549081c35e592afaa540f336f76c828a996b4fcb74edef46beba942. Test build is main0304a8549 plus pending Z16 correction3a4fcf883, module3c3a4efe77335ac8af1719f435d222fc142b330f23ae234171ad42512588fb4d. Build gates pass. No Thief-specific emulator or executable patch.

First direct launch0725Z lacked installer-generated DARKINST.CFG, did not open the resource archives, and called NULL from538d87 at batch36. Adding install_path, resname_base, load_path, script_module_path all C:, plus movie_path C:\MOVIES, loads intrface.crf but hits integer divide by zero (C0000094, reported block44b375) at batch93. Actual divide44b37a uses animation frame count at object+4. Main animation list MAINM.STR names maina/mainb/mainc/main; the last animation's MAIN_1.PCX resides under english/. Original SETUP.ins contains all these path keys and literal language english. Add language english to DARKINST.CFG:0728Z renders normal main menu, no divide fault. This is installer reconstruction, not a game/code workaround. Keep the original CRFs, MOVIES and configuration files.

Ordinary click310,240 at batch400 reaches difficulty in0729Z. Click330,238 at800 selects Play/Normal;0730Z renders The Unwelcome Guest objectives. Menu/mission objectives are not gameplay qualification.

Registered local app thief2_demo/candidate thief2-demo is prepared remotely (40 data files plus original executable). CLI0731Z Continue392,444 at1400 reaches loadout. A PlayMission click at2600 is too early during loading; 0735Z delays it to6000 at530,456 and reaches the textured first-person mission with HUD, reviewed final.png. No movement in that capture. The probe inherited a60000ms spawnSync timeout despite a90s game guard: exit.json records ETIMEDOUT, but the child continued and ended0 at90.018s with final PNG. Preserve that caveat; do not treat this as clean timing data. Future probes must set the external timeout above the internal guard. Browser0737Z uses registered local launch on main+Z16 and Chrome155, waits for each menu state before proceeding; validation ongoing.

Registered browser movement and mobile limitation

0737Z-thief2-browser (started07:36:23Z) on Chrome155/WebGL/workers: ordinary menu clicks at240394,249394,290538; wait35s for loadout; 389546 PlayMission, wait45s. ArrowUp2s moves forward beyond the starting arch; ArrowRight500ms visibly turns right. Before/walk/turn reviewed. This is actual ordinary player-controlled gameplay. No FPS/audio assessment.

0742Z-thief2-touch displays all six controls at844x390 and dispatches actual CDP dpad touch, but the mobile menu clicks used whole-canvas coordinates without compensating for game letterboxing. Captures remain at main menu: FAILED mobile navigation, not touch gameplay. Next map guest coordinates with renderer._unmapExclusiveInputPoint plus its canvas CSS bounding rect, then verify actual dpad displacement. Shorten Objectives label to Goals to avoid the top-right button clipping in phone landscape. Physical device, Safari, full actions and audio/FPS remain unverified. Registration30014ef63 is pushed, ops main integration pending.

0750Z-touch-mapped repeats with the renderer inverse presentation transform; still main menu. Therefore correcting coordinate mapping alone has NOT established the cause. Next compare actual p.touchscreen taps against mouse events under mobile emulation, capturing each menu checkpoint. No further blind route replay. WinePerf.snapshot counters all0 in this run; instrumentation was not enabled, so this is unavailable measurement, NOT measured0FPS. Core keyboard gameplay remains reviewable; mobile/audio/FPS have a separate ready follow-up. Goals label change e2c8bd4cd pushed; debug close overlay still overlaps top-right control in debug mode.

Integration reconciliation, 2026-10-13

Recovered from origin/codex/wsasocket-capability at 15b37458e during the release merge audit. The local-only registration and its required runtime fixes are now on main. Earlier statements that integration is pending describe the historical run, not the current branch. This recovery adds no fresh gameplay, audio, performance, Safari, or physical-device qualification; retain the recorded run IDs, module hashes, limitations, and failed attempts above.