[scummvm-devel] Introducing myself

[Filippos Karapetis]

Welcome!

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 00:26 Eugene Sandulenko via scummvm-devel <
scummvm-devel at lists.scummvm.org> wrote:

> 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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