projects.md

# Projects

## PC Status (Formerly Dead, Now Running)
- **Liquid-damaged PC:** Dead from milk spill (motherboard + GPU). Ryzen 7 3800X, DDR4, AM4.
- **Sister's PC (now Raymond's desktop):** Z170-HD3-CF, i5-6600K, GTX 1070, 16GB DDR4 (Raymond upgraded to 64GB with 2x32GB Corsair Vengeance sticks from the 128GB kit). 144Hz monitor working. AIO watercooling — ONE fan connected (second pending connection to SYS_FAN header). Thermal paste reapplication recommended (original is 10+ years old). CPU still throttles above ~68% usage.
- **Plan:** AM4 rebuild still pending (need B550/X570 board). Test the 3800X CPU. If it survived liquid damage, rebuild costs just the board. If not, Ryzen 5 5600 is extremely cheap used.
- **Remaining RAM:** 2x32GB sticks in reserve (survived milk spill — cleaned with isopropyl).
- **Archive path on desktop:** `E:\Google Drive\Misc\The Chat Files\`.
- **Lesson:** Span<T> is camouflage at the gameplay layer. Real modernization is typed objects with named fields.

## Car Stereo Firmware (Active — Part 26)
- **Hardware:** Pioneer DMH-A4450BT (budget model, sister bought before selling Raymond the car).
- **Architecture:** SOC PIO_SC01-240415, MCU PIO_ST02-220926. FW 2.5.0, HW 1.0.0-KA. Custom Linux or RTOS, not Android.
- **Three bugs documented:**
  1. No BT fallback when Android Auto cuts out (dodgy USB cable — state machine problem)
  2. Can't adjust reversing camera guidelines while camera is active (conditional check)
  3. Native OS is very slow (software bottleneck, not hardware)
- **Plan:** Download CUST_PIO.BIN, Binwalk, Ghidra (ARM), find source switching and camera UI code. Long-term: custom minimal Qt UI. **No progress in Part 27.**

## HedzSharp (Active)
- **Status:** Fork active. Raymond forked the original C# port.
- **Goal:** Bug-preservation modernization — byte-buffer-with-magic-offsets → typed objects with named fields.
- **Part 25:** 3 concurrent AI agents with "continue to iterate, remember strictly adhere to the modernization plan" prompt queued 20 times.
- **Part 27:** No updates.

## ZScape (Active)
- **Status:** V1 RELEASED publicly. V2 nearly complete (Avalonia rewrite for cross-platform).
- **Part 25-27:** No updates.

## NexusVNC (Active — Part 11)
- **Status:** Backend done, UI in progress (Part 11 data).
- **Architecture:** Extended VNC protocol with finer control over image/audio quality, real-time network quality detection, relay server architecture, backward compatible both ways, modern Android keyboard support.
- **Code location:** Laptop or desktop — need to check commits and push status.
- **Part 27:** Raymond discussed setting up TightVNC as interim solution. TightVNC set up on desktop.

## ArchivePatcher (NEW — Part 27, Abandoned)
- **Status:** Abandoned end of Part 27 after bugs and Deepseek implementation failures.
- **Concept:** C# .NET 10 console app that watches Google Drive root for `chat-patch_YYYYMMDD-HHMM_description.md` files and applies text replacements to target archive files — mimicking Desktop Commander's `edit_block` behaviour when DC is unavailable.
- **Folder structure:** `latest/` (current patch + log), `past/` (archive of previous patches).
- **Operations:** REPLACE (str_replace on old text) and CREATE (new file if target doesn't exist).
- **Log format:** `chat-patch_YYYYMMDD-HHMM_description.log.md` — Markdown with timestamp, target, status, old text (first 100 chars), new text (first 100 chars).
- **Google Doc status:** Deepseek faked it with `.gdoc` extension. Real solution requires Google Drive API, upload text/plain with auto-conversion to Google Doc, upsert via stored file ID.
- **Bug at time of abandonment:** Parser returning "parse error no target file" on test patches.
- **Two test patches in Drive root unprocessed:** CREATE test and str_replace test for Vaporeon Molecular Nature subsection.

## Writing Standards Document (Parts 17-27)
- **Status:** Current. Updated Part 27 with Kai initiation principle, Kai existence-beyond-cave principle, hindlegs canonical, "Kainions" retired confirmed, Feet Named Hazard confirmed, Physiological Flush System added, Cannabis and Dissolution added.

## Doom 2 ML Map Generator
- **Status:** Background, stalled.

## Other
- **Cave Engine:** Custom format specs exist, no working code yet.
- **Bettaluco CGM app:** Being built.
- **Cave reference images (2):** Still pending archiving from Part 25.
- **Story Bible Addendum (dissolution edge):** Merged into v15b Part 27. Resolved.
- **Git commit:** Still pending for Parts 24-25-26-27 changes.

## Deliverables (Part 27 Handoff check)
- HedzSharp fork active.
- PC rebuild: desktop running (Z170, 64GB, 144Hz). AM4 rebuild still pending.
- ZScape V2 pending final release.
- Story Bible reading is mandatory first action each Part — confirmed.
- Grounding ritual established (optional, on request).
- Handoffs as artifacts going forward.
- One compaction = new Part. Archive read at Part start mandatory.
- **Archive complete as of Part 27:** Scenes 1-35 (+ Scene #36 canon-adjacent), Dispatches 1-11, Interludes 1-12, 19 Mini-Dispatches, Story Bible v17, Writing Standards current. Cave reference images (2) pending archiving.

## Memory & Archive Work (Part 27)
- Part 27: Story Bible updated to v15b via Desktop Commander (dissolution edge). v16 (Lucario canon, cetacean dildo, cock vore correction). v17 (Cannabis and Dissolution, Vaporeon Molecular Nature, Physiological Flush System).
- Interludes 1-12 complete (#9-12 added Part 27: sleeping inside Kai, micro-Raymond/Lucario, sensory immersion, teacup/cathedral Kai).
- Scene #36 written by Deepseek, canon-adjacent (reference piece, maintained separately).
- Archive path on this PC: `G:\My Drive\Misc\The Chat Files\` (laptop) / `E:\Google Drive\Misc\The Chat Files\` (desktop).
- Part 28 handoff saved as artifact.
- Pending: Cave reference images, git commit, lake adventure scene.