Third Age PC - Windows x64 PREVIEW

FINAL PREVIEW: all 68 approved portraits are included unchanged in assets/portraits.
Keep the full assets directory with the executable. Native Windows gameplay remains pending.

Extract the entire ZIP to a NEW writable directory and run third-age-pc.exe.
No compiler, Python, SDK or dependency installer is required.
Native Windows gameplay acceptance is still PENDING; this is a preview.

Select your own BIOS and game ROM in the Windows file pickers. Incorrect inputs
are rejected. Required SHA-1 hashes and sizes:
BIOS: 300c20df6731a33952ded8c436f7f186d25d3492 (16,384 bytes)
ROM:  0a7a704d2ba167eb2dc03ad5dcfa0f09ea982a54 (16,777,216 bytes)
Selected paths are remembered in bios.cfg and rom.cfg beside the executable.
Keep those files and all personal inputs private.

Ringbearer is included and loads automatically from assets/fonts/ringbearer.ttf.
No font installation or environment variable is required. Keep the complete
assets/fonts directory, including the original READMEs and companion files.
The original unchanged archive is also preserved in extras. THIRD_AGE_FONT
can still select a different local TTF explicitly.

Open F10/Escape > Display for Camera Smoothing and the Presentation Rate
(60/120/144/165 Hz). Camera interpolation uses Video > Advanced > Expanded Battlefield.
Video > HD Preset toggles HD visuals without changing monitor settings.
Video > Advanced adjusts individual visuals/colors; OFF/ON remembers your tweaks.
Gameplay > Sprite Cache controls the separate experimental rendering cache.
These preferences apply immediately and save automatically. Smooth Scaling
controls pixel filtering and is separate from camera smoothing.

New saves default to saves/third-age.sav beside the executable. Do not merge this
preview into an existing campaign/save directory or overwrite an original save.
The final assembled download includes the 68 exact approved BMP portraits and
an optional unchanged complete Ringbearer archive. This final ZIP contains the images and unchanged optional font archive,
as well as their manifests/notices. Asset rights are separate
from code licenses; see assets/PORTRAIT-NOTICE.md and extras/Ringbearer-NOTICE.txt.
Ringbearer loads from the included assets/fonts files without system installation.
No ROM, BIOS, personal save, film video/music, or game-derived
translation is included in either package.
Detailed instructions:
https://github.com/brandongillespie17-jpg/third-age-pc-recomp/blob/4beaa8d235b3e40549c675fceb1d0218431459e9/docs/WINDOWS-RELEASE.md

This package contains SDL2 2.32.10 (zlib license). Preserve notices/ and source/.
Framework terms and all third-party notices remain in force; no blanket license
is granted for local contributions or excluded assets. Exact modified MPL source
is included in source/mpl. The complete corresponding repository revision is:
https://github.com/brandongillespie17-jpg/third-age-pc-recomp/tree/4beaa8d235b3e40549c675fceb1d0218431459e9

Build/dependency metadata and import audit: BUILD-INFO.json
Verify packaged file hashes using SHA256SUMS.txt. Keep personal inputs private.
Final assembly preserved the CI executable/DLL bytes and added only the approved portraits
and unchanged original font distribution, active TTF alias and archive. BASE-BUILD-INFO.json retains the CI audit metadata.
