Split the machine from its front end, and add Voyager

The Segan Voyager is the same SplitBit with a screen and a speaker instead of a terminal,
and this is the rung that makes there be two of them at all. Everything that is actually
the machine - the CPU, the controller, the devices, the run loop, the reporting - moves to
machine.c, and each front end brings one file of its own. emulator.c is now sixty lines of
argument handling and a three line loop.

The machine runs in SLICES rather than to completion, because that is the cut a window
needs: run a slice, present a frame, run another. A terminal runs slices until the machine
stops. Both loops are three lines, which is why the cut is there rather than anywhere else.

At this stage Voyager's window is empty. There is no video device yet and inventing a
temporary way to draw would mean building something to throw away.

PLAIN MAKE STILL WORKS WITH NO GRAPHICS LIBRARY. Raylib is probed by compiling and linking
against it rather than by looking for a file, because a header with no library behind it
passes a file check and then fails at link time. Where it is missing, make says so once and
builds everything else - the machine, the assembler, the disk tool, the linter and the whole
suite. A project about a small understandable CPU should not need OpenGL to run its tests.
That nearly broke here: make strict globs Source/Emulator/*.c, so it would have tried to
compile voyager.c and failed on precisely the machines the split exists to support, and this
machine has Raylib so nothing would have caught it.

Tests/voyager.sh runs the WHOLE MANIFEST through Voyager and holds it to the recorded
results SplitBit is held to. Not that the two look alike: that one satisfies every recording
the other does, byte for byte, exit status included. It reuses run.sh, which now takes the
machine from SPLITBIT_EMULATOR, rather than keeping a second copy of the runner that would
drift. Voyager not being built is not a failure - it says so and passes.

Verified both ways. Made Voyager print one extra line, and 114 of 165 failed: exactly the
tests that run the emulator, with the 51 assemble-only and xfail cases correctly untouched.
Removed the binary, and the script skipped. Built with HAVE_RAYLIB=no, and everything else
still built and checked clean.

--headless is taken out of the arguments in voyager.c rather than in the shared parser,
which should not learn about a window only one binary has. It exists so the suite can run
this binary at all: a front end that could only be exercised by a person looking at it would
be a front end nothing checks.

loadFile takes a const char * now, which it always should have.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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## What The Suite Claims:
The suite is not one thing. It is eight scripts making five different kinds of claim, and
The suite is not one thing. It is nine scripts making five different kinds of claim, and
knowing which claim you are relying on is the whole point of this document. A recorded
transcript and a byte-for-byte comparison against a second implementation both print
`[ok ]`, and they are worth wildly different amounts.
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ Everything in between is somewhere on that line.
make test
```
Builds the four tools, checks they compile under strict ISO C, and runs the scripts in
order. Takes a few seconds. Everything must pass; there are no expected failures at the
Builds the four tools - and Voyager, where Raylib is installed - checks they compile under
strict ISO C, and runs the scripts in order. Takes a few seconds. Everything must pass; there are no expected failures at the
level of the suite, only tests that record an expected failure of the assembler.
```
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Individual scripts can be run on their own, from anywhere:
./Tests/run.sh Every program in the manifest.
./Tests/run.sh hello waitTest Only the named ones.
./Tests/run.sh --bless Record current output as expected. See below.
./Tests/voyager.sh The same manifest, through the other front end.
./Tests/disk.sh The disk tool against the format.
./Tests/cycles.sh What the memory controller charges.
./Tests/terminal.sh The things a recorded file cannot see.
@@ -91,8 +92,8 @@ without anybody meaning it to.
### 2. A second implementation
`Tests/native.sh` and `Tests/agree.sh` are the two checks that do not compare the code
against a memory of itself.
`Tests/native.sh`, `Tests/agree.sh` and `Tests/voyager.sh` are the checks that do not
compare the code against a memory of itself.
`native.sh` assembles the same source with the host assembler and with `Asm.sbx` running on
the emulated machine, and compares the two binaries byte for byte. **The only honest test of
@@ -109,10 +110,27 @@ block, what a directory's unused fields hold, the version in the superblock, the
count. A disagreement in any of those is a disk one of them can read and the other cannot,
and the usual way that gets discovered is somebody's file coming back wrong months later.
Both scripts depend on both sides being driven in the same order, because both allocate
first fit and both take the first free entry. Given the same operations in the same
sequence they should reach the same bytes, and any difference is real rather than an
artefact of the script.
`native.sh` and `agree.sh` both depend on the two sides being driven in the same order,
because both allocate first fit and both take the first free entry. Given the same
operations in the same sequence they should reach the same bytes, and any difference is real
rather than an artefact of the script.
`Tests/voyager.sh` is the cheapest of the three, because it reuses the runner rather than
repeating it. SplitBit and Voyager share every line of the machine and differ only in what
they present - a terminal, or a window and a speaker - and the way to keep that true is to
make the claim testable. So it runs the **whole manifest** through Voyager with
`--headless`, held to the same recorded results SplitBit is held to. The claim is not that
the two look alike: it is that one satisfies every recording the other does, byte for byte,
exit status included.
`Tests/run.sh` takes the machine to run from `SPLITBIT_EMULATOR`, which is what makes that
possible without a second copy of the runner. A copy would drift, and the first thing to go
would be whichever awkward case got added to only one of them.
**Voyager not being built is not a failure.** It needs Raylib and nothing else here does,
which is the whole point of there being two binaries; a suite that failed on a machine with
no graphics library would be enforcing exactly the dependency the split exists to avoid. The
script says it was skipped, and passes.
### 3. Named properties