https://playphaethon.com/news/ Notes from the work on Phaethon: what landed, what was measured, and what was decided. en Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:34:47 -0400 https://playphaethon.com/news/the-compiler-console/ https://playphaethon.com/news/the-compiler-console/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:34:47 -0400 tools release goalc's welcome, help, greeting and prompt were rewritten for Phaethon, and its status lines now print in the runtime's own log shape. Nine commits, twenty-one rows seen red first, one train. https://playphaethon.com/news/playphaethon-com/ https://playphaethon.com/news/playphaethon-com/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:01:40 -0400 site The project has its own domain. The site, the docs, the download host, the account service and the sign-in realm all moved to it in one afternoon; only the forge stays where it was. https://playphaethon.com/news/accounts-sessions-saves/ https://playphaethon.com/news/accounts-sessions-saves/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:58:44 -0400 launcher service The launcher signs a player in to Phaethon, reports what they play, and now keeps their saves under their account with a per-account quota. Release candidate six carries all of it. https://playphaethon.com/news/the-launcher-is-signed/ https://playphaethon.com/news/the-launcher-is-signed/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:25:47 -0400 launcher release From release candidate three the installer and the updater carry a signing identity, so Windows stops warning about an unknown publisher. What it took to get a certificate into a CI runner. https://playphaethon.com/news/the-repository-restructured/ https://playphaethon.com/news/the-repository-restructured/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:54:05 -0400 repository Fifteen rungs moved the tree into compiler, runtime, common and test, retired the paths nothing read, and left every tool reading the new places. All fifteen landed under one milestone. https://playphaethon.com/news/two-ladders-of-kernel-rungs/ https://playphaethon.com/news/two-ladders-of-kernel-rungs/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:51:00 -0400 kernel measurement The load waits that spun a core now wait on a signal, the IOP host sleeps to its real deadline, and the listener's send left the game thread. Each rung says whether the game could observe it, and Jak 1 to 3 booted for every one. https://playphaethon.com/news/where-a-race-frames-time-goes/ https://playphaethon.com/news/where-a-race-frames-time-goes/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:30:50 -0400 renderer measurement A cost map of a Jak X race frame: about 1.1 ms of movable recording in a 4.9 ms Vulkan frame, of which the largest family cannot move (#2163, #2198, #2211, #2212). https://playphaethon.com/news/opengl-out-vulkan-in/ https://playphaethon.com/news/opengl-out-vulkan-in/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:22:32 -0400 renderer volk, dynamic rendering, one shader source compiled for both backends, and a simple suballocator over the memory library, with the four constraints that shaped them and the ones that were refused. https://playphaethon.com/news/phaethon-leaves-the-tree/ https://playphaethon.com/news/phaethon-leaves-the-tree/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:34:50 -0400 project The fork becomes its own line. What it keeps from OpenGOAL, what it changes on day one, and why nothing goes back upstream.