[scummvm-devel] Introducing myself

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Welcome!

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 12:52, Andrea Boscarino via scummvm-devel <
scummvm-devel at lists.scummvm.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone! I'm Andrea Boscarino (aka AndywinXp on GitHub, and Bosca
> mostly everywhere else, real life included);
> I am a 26 yo guy with a computer engineer master's degree and a passion
> for AI, audio programming, old school Adventure Games,
> playing guitar/bass/piano/drums, hiking, and well... cooking (but that's
> basically bound to happen to any italian folk :-P).
>
> My contributions to ScummVM started a little more than a year ago when I
> decided to try and fix a Digital iMUSE bug
> in the SCUMM engine; nothing big, apparently, I just wanted to fix a
> portion of a theme not being played until the end.
> This escalated fairly quickly, so that I ended up learning the basics of
> reverse engineering and rewriting the engine
> from the ground up over the course of a year, mainly thanks to the support
> of highly skilled people, such as sev, aquadran,
> and later to eriktorbjorn for all the headache-inducing debugging process.
>
> I also contributed some minor fixes to the walk code and text positioning
> of SCUMM v7-8 games, in collaboration with athrxx.
>
> My current plans for the future are:
> - Rewrite DiMUSE for Grim Fandango (which shouldn't take as long as it
> currently took me, since GRIM uses a slightly lighter
> version of the COMI variant);
> - Take a look at the audio engine for Moonbase Commander (SCUMM-HE), study
> it, and possibly go through the same process I
> went through with DiMUSE;
> - Trying to become a better coder than I am now :-)
>
> I'm so honored to be part of this team, full of creative, skilled and
> collaborative people, and I hope to stick around for many years!
> Please feel free to reach me out on Discord, or by mail if you encounter
> any issue with my code.
> Either that, or hit me up if you just need a pasta/risotto/pizza recipe.
>
> Sending my best regards,
> Andrea
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