Thread: "Andrey biography and code"

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Dear Cubists,

I've been in contact with Andrey's family who have recently written an biography of him for the web site. You'll find the English version here and Russian here . For the new members who never knew Andrey, he was one of our brightest lights who created and solved many of our most special puzzles.

His resourceful family was also able through heroic effort to recover data from his damaged hard drive including what appears to include all of the source code to his incredible creations! For a long time, we assumed this was lost forever, so this is big news. I plan to get most of it uploaded to either his GitHub account or my own (opinions anyone?), but I would first like to see if I can get some clean builds. His source control is a surprisingly similar mess to my own. Would you like to try building it? I've placed a minimal archive of the code for Magic Puzzle Ultimate on that page and would love for you to try building it and then share any project files you need to build or give tips on how you think it should best be packaged. I have more pieces if you run into trouble. Just let me know. I'll then get it uploaded to GitHub we can begin doing the same with his other puzzles.

January will be the first anniversary of Andrey's death. So much has happened in that short time, and the large hole he left in our community is may remain a permanent feature. We really miss you, Andrey!

-Melinda

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Dear Cubists,



I've been in contact with Andrey's family who have recently written
an biography of him for the web site. You'll find the English
version href="http://superliminal.com/andrey/biography.html">here and
Russian href="http://superliminal.com/andrey/biografiya.html">here.
For the new members who never knew Andrey, he was one of our
brightest lights who created and solved many of our most special
puzzles.



His resourceful family was also able through heroic effort to
recover data from his damaged hard drive including what appears to
include all of the source code to his incredible creations! For a
long time, we assumed this was lost forever, so this is big news. I
plan to get most of it uploaded to either his GitHub account or my
own (opinions anyone?), but I would first like to see if I can get
some clean builds. His source control is a surprisingly similar mess
to my own. Would you like to try building it? I've placed a minimal
archive of the code for href="http://superliminal.com/andrey/mpu/">Magic Puzzle Ultimate
on that page and would love for you to try building it and then
share any project files you need to build or give tips on how you
think it should best be packaged. I have more pieces if you run into
trouble. Just let me know. I'll then get it uploaded to GitHub we
can begin doing the same with his other puzzles.



January will be the first anniversary of Andrey's death. So much has
happened in that short time, and the large hole he left in our
community is may remain a permanent feature. We really miss you,
Andrey!



-Melinda




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Wow, he was quite the person! Great read :)

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 6:42 AM Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com
[4D_Cubing] <4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Dear Cubists,
>
> I've been in contact with Andrey's family who have recently written an
> biography of him for the web site. You'll find the English version here
> and Russian here
> . For the new members who
> never knew Andrey, he was one of our brightest lights who created and
> solved many of our most special puzzles.
>
> His resourceful family was also able through heroic effort to recover dat=
a
> from his damaged hard drive including what appears to include all of the
> source code to his incredible creations! For a long time, we assumed this
> was lost forever, so this is big news. I plan to get most of it uploaded =
to
> either his GitHub account or my own (opinions anyone?), but I would first
> like to see if I can get some clean builds. His source control is a
> surprisingly similar mess to my own. Would you like to try building it?
> I've placed a minimal archive of the code for Magic Puzzle Ultimate
> on that page and would love for you
> to try building it and then share any project files you need to build or
> give tips on how you think it should best be packaged. I have more pieces
> if you run into trouble. Just let me know. I'll then get it uploaded to
> GitHub we can begin doing the same with his other puzzles.
>
> January will be the first anniversary of Andrey's death. So much has
> happened in that short time, and the large hole he left in our community =
is
> may remain a permanent feature. We really miss you, Andrey!
>
> -Melinda
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Hi all,

I've been working with Melinda in the background and we think we have a
good build of Andrey's *Magic Puzzle Ultimate* on GitHub now. It does
require installing some older DirectX libraries (details are in the
readme). You can clone the repository here:

https://github.com/cutelyaware/MPUlt

Let us know if you have trouble building... or better yet, send pull
requests for any needed fixes :D

Melinda, thank you so much for securing and hosting Andrey's code, web
pages, and biography. I think it's wonderful that you did this, and I'm
sure others feel the same.

Best,
Roice


On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com
[4D_Cubing] <4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Dear Cubists,
>
> I've been in contact with Andrey's family who have recently written an
> biography of him for the web site. You'll find the English version here
> and Russian here
> . For the new members who
> never knew Andrey, he was one of our brightest lights who created and
> solved many of our most special puzzles.
>
> His resourceful family was also able through heroic effort to recover dat=
a
> from his damaged hard drive including what appears to include all of the
> source code to his incredible creations! For a long time, we assumed this
> was lost forever, so this is big news. I plan to get most of it uploaded =
to
> either his GitHub account or my own (opinions anyone?), but I would first
> like to see if I can get some clean builds. His source control is a
> surprisingly similar mess to my own. Would you like to try building it?
> I've placed a minimal archive of the code for Magic Puzzle Ultimate
> on that page and would love for you
> to try building it and then share any project files you need to build or
> give tips on how you think it should best be packaged. I have more pieces
> if you run into trouble. Just let me know. I'll then get it uploaded to
> GitHub we can begin doing the same with his other puzzles.
>
> January will be the first anniversary of Andrey's death. So much has
> happened in that short time, and the large hole he left in our community =
is
> may remain a permanent feature. We really miss you, Andrey!
>
> -Melinda
>
>
>=20
>

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Thank you so much for testing and contributing, Nan! It's super helpful to have confirmation that the repo is good and that collaboration works.

If you want to try something more, I would most love it if someone would fix Andrey's odd shading. It looks like the polygon normals are reversed or there's some other shading issue.

-Melinda

On 1/17/2018 8:20 PM, mananself@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
>
>
> This is terrific!
>
> Installing DirectX is a bit painful. But I confirm that I can build and run it on my machine (Visual Studio 2015, Windows10). I just sent out a small pull request.


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Thank you so much for testing and contributing, Nan! It's super
helpful to have confirmation that the repo is good and that
collaboration works.



If you want to try something more, I would most love it if someone
would fix Andrey's odd shading. It looks like the polygon normals
are reversed or there's some other shading issue.



-Melinda

This is terrific!=C2=A0

Installing DirectX is a bit painful. But I confirm that I can
build and run it on my machine (Visual Studio 2015, Windows10).
I just sent out a small pull request.

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Hello everyone,

I don't know if this is helpful, but I've attempted the task of modernising
Andrey's DirectX using SharpDX, and my progress so far is here:
https://github.com/Sonicpineapple/MPUlt

Unfortunately, it still isn't in a working state, but I have brought an
initial 90 odd errors down to 5 or so. The reason those are still left is
because I haven't been able to use SharpDX.Toolkit, but apparently that can
be installed on Visual Studio, and maybe someone with more DirectX
experience than me could find a way around it anyway. (I'm stuck on Linux
right now using MonoDevelop, so I can't even run the original program. :( )

This may be useless to you all, but I thought I'd get the ball rolling if
no-one else had started yet.

And as a side note, I'm quite a fan of the quirky shading. It's easy on the
eyes. :D

~Luna

On 18 January 2018 at 06:21, Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com
[4D_Cubing] <4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Thank you so much for testing and contributing, Nan! It's super helpful t=
o
> have confirmation that the repo is good and that collaboration works.
>
> If you want to try something more, I would most love it if someone would
> fix Andrey's odd shading. It looks like the polygon normals are reversed =
or
> there's some other shading issue.
>
> -Melinda
>
> On 1/17/2018 8:20 PM, mananself@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
>
> This is terrific!
>
> Installing DirectX is a bit painful. But I confirm that I can build and
> run it on my machine (Visual Studio 2015, Windows10). I just sent out a
> small pull request.
>
>
>=20
>

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