Stefano Tognon (ice00)
Italian programmer, editor and sole regular author of the free SID e-zine sidin (2002–2015), and author of the Java tracker jitt64 — the "Java Ice Team Tracker", hence the "Ice Team" in the name and the handle ice00 (sources: s-sidin13-jitt64-tracker, s-sidin02-matt-gray-driller).
Facts#
- Signs every SIDin editorial and article "Stefano Tognon <ice00@libero.it>"; writes the news, the interviews and the technical articles himself (sources: s-sidin12-hermit-interview, s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview, s-sidin13-jitt64-tracker).
- Reverse engineering: his SIDin analyses are "done by reverse engineering the code" with commented disassemblies — matt-gray's driller routine in #2 (2002), martin-galway's arkanoid player in #4 (2003), the Tiny Sid Compo entries in #8–#12 (2005–2008, ending with GRG's Plaster and Jaymz Julian's Back To Basics), and a step-by-step rip of The Trivia Arcade with VICE's monitor in #12 (sources: s-sidin02-matt-gray-driller, s-realdmx-galway-arkanoid-player, s-sidin12-tiny-sid-2-part-3, s-sidin12-ripping-trivia-arcade). His rights note: the analysed code belongs to its composers.
- JITT64: "my personal music editor", the reason issue 13 (2010-06-28) came two years after issue 12; issue 13 is devoted to it — a user guide and a walk through the player source (init, shadow-register IRQ, pattern decoding, per-instrument tables, commands, hard restart). Design credo: unshared per-instrument tables, "freedom" over rastertime (sources: s-sidin13-jitt64-tracker, s-sidin13-inside-jitt64).
- Interviewer of hermit (2008), tsm and freedom (2010) among others; a "double" interview format with the same questions to two people, "quite popular in Italian Television" (sources: s-sidin12-hermit-interview, s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview).
- In the #13 editorial he tells of finding Wally Beben ("Dark Side") on Facebook — "it is always a pleasure to speak with this legend people" (source: s-sidin13-jitt64-tracker).
His own projects, as the editorials and news record them#
- Tools besides jitt64 (announced in #12, 2008, as "very rastertime consuming" with instrument definitions of "up to 2KB of data"): the TSID / TSID2 listening-statistics libraries (TSID 0.8 and TSID2 0.1–0.2, 2002–03), the Java disassembler JC64Dis (beta 1, 2004), XSidplay2 (2.0.0 in 2008, 2.1.7 on 2015-09-20 with 3SID support through libsidplayfp 1.8.1), and hvmec (2004 →) (source: s-sidin-news-digest).
- Compos he ran from digilander.iol.it/ice00/tsid: SidWine 2 (2003) and 3 (2004), the tiny-sid-compo (2005) and Tiny Sid 2 (2006), the Big Sid Compo (2006); as an entrant he was 7th in Steppe and Yodelking's HVSC rip compo (2003) (source: s-sidin-news-digest).
- The magazine's own story — OpenOffice
.sxwthen.odt(2006), the errata file, the reasons for each gap, the move to iceteam.altervista.org (2015) — is collected in s-sidin-news-digest.
Related#
sidin · jitt64 · sid-player-routine · tiny-sid-compo · hvmec · driller · arkanoid · hermit · tsm · freedom
Sources#
s-sidin13-jitt64-tracker · s-sidin13-inside-jitt64 · s-sidin12-hermit-interview · s-sidin12-tiny-sid-2-part-3 · s-sidin12-ripping-trivia-arcade · s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview · s-sidin02-matt-gray-driller · s-realdmx-galway-arkanoid-player · s-sidin-news-digest