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Richard Guay • Edited

My favorite projects are still on going. They are Modal File Manager, EmailIt, EmailIt Server, and ScriptBar.

My favorite project in high school was on a Commodore 64 then moved to an Amiga in college (my home made system burned up my freshman year). It was simulating robots in a 2-D world with different types of intelligence. Alpha was pure reflective, Beta was reflexive with a memory of what worked, and Gamma that tried to generalize over the successful memories to project what would work in the unexplored space. Their source code I’ve long lost, but I had fun. The beta used up the memory in the Commodore 64.

After college, my favorite project was hardware and software. I help design, build, and program the Muse Mastering console in the late 90’s. It was a systolic array parallel processing system with 30+ DSP chips. I designed half of the circuit boards and all the low level programming. I also created a program for debugging the DSP chip code in the system (single stepping through the program while displaying all the registers). That was a very fun and exciting project. But, unfortunately isn’t around anymore.

I’ve always had different side projects. Whenever I’m idle, my mind keeps on programming.