John Reed's Projects Portfolio
Over the years I have worked on many small projects. I am attempting here
to recall as many as I can. Some were done so long ago the source code has
been long since lost. I will try to add code and exes when I have time so
check back for updates. For a detailed history of my work experience, which
isn't much, you can find my resume here.
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| Black Jack |
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This is the first program I can remember writing. I was in 5th grade.
My family had a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 3 and I learned Basic from the
book that came with it. There was no real AI just random number generation
and comparisons of the values I think. It's hard to remember back that far.
I only remember this one well because I entered it in the school science
fair. I couldn't bring my computer to school so I wrote out all the code
by hand and had it taped on the wall. The judges were so impressed I got
a first place ribbon, but not the grand prize trophy.
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| Battle Zone |
| year |
1992? |
language |
Basic |
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My first attempt at a graphical RPG game. This was not long after Black Jack.
I'm not sure, but I think it was inspired by Kings Quest which I had played on
someone else's computer. There were no moving graphics though, just a static picture.
Sub routines would draw the terrain and monsters using the circles, lines, and other
drawing routines in Basic. That was in the upper left. Along the right side were your
statistics and on the bottom was the text interface for entering commands. You could
move around the map and fight monsters, but that was about it.
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| Delerium |
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This was during my freshman or sophomore year of high school. It was a MUD written
in LPC a C like scripting language for the Mac. The code was already written, but
I ended up doing a lot of modifications. I ran the server on a Power Mac 6100, one
of the first Power PC Macs.
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| cal |
| year |
2000 |
language |
x86 assembly |
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I took a class in assembly and wrote a simple calculator application. It ran in the
dos console. You typed in a simple expression and it evaluated it. Even though this was
a simple program it still took some time to write. I came away from that class with a
good understanding of both x86 and z80 assembly.
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| MUD Client |
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My friend had been developing a MUD and wanted a more advanced client. We basically
took a standard telnet client and added color syntax highlighting and the ability to display
information like inventories in separate windows. The program was ok, but had buffer problems.
I couldn't get a screen shot with the color and everything because the server is no longer
running.
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| Network Monitor |
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I began this program in 2001 as a packet sniffer. It was originally intended to
capture network packets and reassemble them into readable data. I later found a program
that did almost exactly what I wanted so I just turned it into a bandwidth monitor instead
of spending all the time and effort finishing it. It displayed all the computers on the
network and showed their current upload and download bandwidth usages. Even though I used
Visual Basic I still learned a lot about network packet structure and networking in
general. I actually used the program when I lived with my room mates because we had
six computers and when ever someone uploaded something it killed our DSL bandwidth. So I
often used it to see which computer was uploading a large amount when we had our gaming
sessions.
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| PMCS Reports |
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I was deployed to the middle east in 2002 for a year so didn't have much time to program.
However, our unit was testing out a new maintenance system that used a MS Access Database
and VB front end. It only generated one massive report which could be a pain to go through,
so I developed a dynamic report generator in VB. It allowed us to filter tasks by what type
of service was due when and sort or filter by most of the fields.
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| RFControl |
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In 2003 I bought a Turtle Beach RF remote control on clearance at CompUSA. However,
it didn't come with drivers just a proprietary program that interfaced with it. I wanted
to use it with all my windows programs so made my own driver program. I learned how to
read input from the serial port and found the codes for each button. I then made a program
that let you make custom mappings for different programs. Basically it mapped each button
press to a keyboard stroke or series of strokes that you defined. You could use the number
buttons to open ten mapped programs and an AB button to switch to using actual numbers. The
program comes in real handy all the time. I like to put on my wireless headphones and
listen to my mp3 collection. With my remote I can skip songs I don't like no matter what
room I am in.
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| Delerium II |
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My friend wanted to make a MMORPG like EverQuest, for fun, so purchased a license to the Torque
engine, used in Tribes II and other games. I worked on a menu system, character creation
system and integrating Quake models into the engine using someone else's code which I
fixed a couple bugs in. Overall, I got a basic understanding of 3D applications and OpenGL,
but we decided it would be too much work for three of us to do all the modifications so
we have switched to a new engine.
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| BarQuest |
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A site I came up with because I never knew what was going on in town. So I decided
to make a site and see if the information would come to me. I worked the site into a
class project and had a group of people working on it, but a lot of the code was done
before the class started. For this site I didn't do a lot of original programming. Most
of the code is borrowed from free scripts though it took a long time to modify and
adapt it all to my needs.Check it out here.
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| ijvm mod |
| year |
2005 |
language |
jvm microcode |
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I had a lot of fun in our computer architecture class. We studied a simplified version
of the java virtual machine that only handled integers. We studied the java assembly language
for the machine and even the micro code for each assembly instruction. Then we wrote our own
assembly instruction in micro code to shift bits right and used it in a java assembly program
that printed out the ascii value of a character entered.
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| MySpider |
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We were assigned to create a multi-threading spider that performed a general task
on the web. My program was just text based, but performed pretty well. It was designed
as a spider engine that had a general api, so that anyone could write a parsing class
that could set the priority of links to follow and gather whatever information it wanted.
I started building a plugin that parsed
and analyzed myspace, but became too busy with school work to complete that side project.
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| SocialNet |
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I wanted to add a profile system to BarQuest so worked it into another class project.
All of the code is original and written by me. I had to use JSP for the class, but would
have preferred to use ASP.NET. The application connects to a SQL Server database but
will support MySQL too. I am currently working on the mail system for another class and
still consider the code alpha though you can check it out here:
User ID: Test
Password: 12345
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