[BOOT] HALCYON-OS v3.14 · BIOS date 06/27/2026
[MEM] 640K base · 65536K extended · OK
[CPU] Z80A @ 4.0 MHz · 8-bit · OK
[DSK] C: 40MB · D: 80MB · OK
[VID] Hercules Graphics Card · 720×348 mono · OK
[NET] Packet driver loaded · NE2000 · IRQ 10 · OK
[WARN] Mouse driver not loaded — keyboard navigation only
[LOAD] portfolio.sys · about.com · projects.exe · skills.dat
[LOAD] experience.log · contact.frm · links.txt
SYSTEM READY.
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C:\PORTFOLIO> type about.txt
NAME: Halcyon Reed
ROLE: Software Engineer · Retro Computing Specialist
BASED: Portland, OR · GMT-8
SINCE: 2015 · 11 years shipping
FOCUS: Emulators, vintage system preservation, low-level C/Rust
OPEN TO: Senior / staff roles, contract architecture, advisory
C:\PORTFOLIO> dir projects /b
PROJECTS
d-rx-
RETRO8/
2.4 MB
2026-04
Rust
-rw--
z80emu.bin
128 KB
2025-11
C
-rw--
crt-filter.frag
8 KB
2025-08
GLSL
d-rx-
FOSSIL_NET/
512 KB
2024-12
Go
-rw--
dos-shell.exe
64 KB
2024-06
ASM
d-rx-
PALETTE_ARCH/
1.1 MB
2023-09
TS
C:\PORTFOLIO> type skills.dat
SKILLS
C:\PORTFOLIO> type experience.log
EXPERIENCE LOG
2023 — NOW
INDEPENDENT EMULATOR ENGINEER · @ RetroForge
Built and shipped RETRO8 — a cycle-accurate 8-bit emulator in Rust. 14k stars on GitHub. Speak annually at VCF West.
CURRENT
2020 — 2023
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER · @ Lattice Computing
Worked on a hypervisor team. Wrote the firmware update subsystem still running on 4M+ devices. Filed 3 patents.
EMPLOYED
2017 — 2020
EMBEDDED ENGINEER · @ Northwind Devices
Firmware for industrial sensors. RTOS work, C on Cortex-M. Shipped 12 production devices.
EMPLOYED
2015 — 2017
JUNIOR DEVELOPER · @ Portland Software Co
First job. Wrote a lot of PHP and a little C. Learned what 'segfault' means. Still debugging.
EMPLOYED
C:\PORTFOLIO> type stats.txt
STATS
C:\PORTFOLIO> type links.txt
LINKS
C:\PORTFOLIO> contact.exe
CONTACT
C:\PORTFOLIO> exit
[WARN] You cannot exit. There is no escape. Try the contact form instead.
C:\PORTFOLIO>