StephenLovino/BetterCast windows-1.0.1

BetterCast for Windows 1.0.1 — first working receiver

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The first Windows build that actually works as a receiver. If you tried an earlier one and it quit the moment your Mac connected, this is the fix.

Install: download BetterCast-Setup-Windows-x64.exe and run it. Windows SmartScreen will warn on first launch — the installer isn't code-signed yet; choose More info → Run anyway.

What's fixed

• The app no longer quits when your Mac connects. It was misreading the frame header and walking off the end of its own buffer one frame into every stream.
• Typing works. Keystrokes on the virtual display were sent in the wrong keycode space, so letters came out scrambled.
• Crash reports are now useful. Logs are written to %APPDATA%\BetterCast\BetterCast\bettercast.log as they happen, with the previous run kept as bettercast.log.1 — so if it does crash, the evidence survives. Please attach that file to any issue.
• Windows builds exist again. CI had been silently failing since June, which is why the last download was so old.

Known limitations

• The app still reports its version as 1.0.0 internally — version wiring lands next release. Identify this build by the release tag.
• Creating a virtual display on Windows (Windows as sender, extending its own desktop) still fails to install the driver — see #42.
• Streaming Windows → Mac can stall after a few minutes.

Fixes #43, and very likely #35.