Message #3807

From: Ty Jones <whotyjones@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Andrey biography and code
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:16:37 +0000

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
> <http://superliminal.com/andrey/biography.html> and Russian here
> <http://superliminal.com/andrey/biografiya.html>. 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
> <http://superliminal.com/andrey/mpu/> 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
>
>