Mike Potter joined Synapse in 1981 after writing the game Protector and initially distributing it through another company, Crystalware. When he questioned his royalties, they released the game back to him. He rereleased a version through Synapse with a number of bug fixes.
Chicken was his first game written entirely at Synapse, and the first who's idea was given to him by Synapse's founder, Ihor Wolosenko. Wolosenko's primary inspiration was arcade games, and many of Synapse's releases from this era are adaptations of contemporary games for the Atari platform. Wolosenko had also come up with the idea for Slime and assigned it to a new programmer, but Potter had to take over development of that game as well, once development on Chicken was complete.
CHICKEN is a compiler and interpreter for the Scheme programming language that compiles Scheme code to standard C. It is mostly R5RS compliant and offers many extensions to the standard. CHICKEN is free software available under the BSD license. It is implemented mostly in Scheme, with some parts in C for performance or to make embedding into C programs easier.
Focus
CHICKEN's focus is immediately clear from its tagline: "A practical and portable Scheme system".
CHICKEN's main focus is the practical application of Scheme for writing "real-world" software. Scheme is well known for its use in computer science curricula and programming language experimentation, but it hasn't seen much use in business and industry. CHICKEN's community has produced a large set of libraries for performing a variety of tasks. The CHICKEN wiki (the software running it is also a CHICKEN program) also contains a list of software that people have written in CHICKEN.
CHICKEN's other goal is to be portable. By compiling to portable C (like Gambit and Bigloo), programs written in CHICKEN can be compiled for common popular platforms like Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like systems as well as Windows, Haiku and the mobile platforms iOS and Android. It also has built-in support for cross-compilation of programs and extensions, which allows it to be used on various embedded platforms.
Honk! is a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling, incorporating a message of tolerance. The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles (of the British songwriting duo Stiles and Drewe). The musical is set in the countryside and features Ugly – a cygnet who is mistaken as an ugly duckling upon falling into his mother's nest and is rejected by everyone but Ida (his mother), a sly tomcat who only befriends him out of hunger, and several other barnyard characters.
The musical debuted at The Watermill Theatre in England in 1993. The West End production opened in 1999 and won the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical.
The show is frequently produced by schools, as well as regional and community theatre groups in Britain, the U.S. and Canada.
Production history
A version of Honk! opened in 1993 at The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, originally titled The Ugly Duckling or the Aesthetically Challenged Farmyard Fowl. It returned to the Watermill Theatre in December 2007. Both productions were directed by Steven Dexter.
The band was formalized in 1970, recorded some demo songs, and then recorded their first album for a $1500 fee. It was the soundtrack for the "cinematic cult classic" surf film,Five Summer Stories. In the early 1970s they toured with The Beach Boys, Chicago, Jackson Browne and Dave Mason before splitting up in 1975. The band reformed in 1985 and continue to occasionally perform.
Honk's drummer, Tris Imboden, has also been a member of several other notable groups. This includes the Kenny Loggins Band, which was featured in the Number One soundtracks for prominent 1980s films, Caddyshack and Footloose. He has been the full-time drummer for the multi-platinum Chicago since 1990.
EnidLorraineWorth was born Oct ... If a prairie chicken flew up in front of him, or if a passing trucks horn honked, Darkie would take off running ... 10, 2024 ... Ron’s favorite was her fried chicken which she brought to the hayfield with us many times ... ....
The geese honk, the chickens squawk and the turkeys strut haughtily, unaware that Thanksgiving is nigh ... The community garden has expanded to a habitat for beekeeping, free-range chickens, goats, and waterfowl.
Canadians love to honk their horns ... We stand on guard to honk. It makes sense, given there are so many Canadian geese flying around honking. Honking is not restricted to urban environments ... Canadian protesters honk ... They honked their outrage.
"Mario" and "Luigi," famous locally as part of the "8 Chicken Nuggets" are spreading happiness on one Buckeye street corner ... Myers is a mother to seven and one of the self-named 8 Chicken Nuggets ... How the 8 Chicken Nuggets found a community in Buckeye.
My mother turns 91 years old next week. Her existence has evolved as the decades passed. Her physical self slowly changed over time ... She’s now barely mobile ... She wants to stop to moo at cattle, cluck at chickens, honk at geese and whinny at horses ... D ... .
Involving chickens ... And carries a big chicken. True, an armed chicken is a polite chicken — the Constitution says so — and a chicken in the arm is worth two in the coop ... And that should leave everyone honked off.
Given that, Chelsea Jo says that anyone who's driving under the speed limit while she's working will get the "beep beep," referring to her honking her horn at them in an effort to alert them to drive a bit faster.
“They eat the ticks,” Whitmore said, as if he’d long tuned out their Paleolithic cackling, considering it part of the symphony of chickens, ducks and geese. “The geese must be coming back,” he said, looking skyward toward a distant honking.
ST. PETERSBURG — Jill Horstmann had squirrels in her bra. And they wouldn’t stay still ... At first, it seemed surprised, maybe even scared ... Ducks run around honking relentlessly, and large cages with possums, raccoons and chickens sit along the fence ... ....
While they rarely prevented the ducks and chickens from joining in on the food sprinkled out twice daily, they could assert their dominance any time they wanted ... The geese honk and come up to the outside of the fence where we’ve tossed some feed.
Parents and community members lined up alongside the path to cheer for the students, with one person wearing a chicken costume and another wearing a costume of a minion from the movie "Despicable Me.". The 'ChickenDance' fills the air.
... ‘crank car.’ That newspaper article stipulates that he would go from here to his farmhouse east of town, and the chickens and cows would have to jump out of the way because he’d come honking through.
As the entries went by featuring floats like Trufant Motorsports, The Wood Chippers, queens and tractors, children clamored for candy tossed out, waved to those on the floats, or egged on vehicles to honk their horns.
Did this T-rex roar, or honk? ... Two tubas, a chicken, and a low-pitched alligator ... “I used to put a roast chicken on the docu-viewer in the classroom,” says Clarke ... honk.” “It’s like a pulse,” he says.
Photo credit. Bring a Trailer... The SV-1 drives far better than you expect it to, and with the exhaust upgrade this version probably honks like an angry Canada goose. they look cute, but Canadians call those birds cobra chickens for a reason ... 2021-2025 ... 1.
Baltimore Sun
08 Nov 2024
Baltimore Sun
08 Nov 2024