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Kevin Pickell

I started computer programming back in 1981. My first computer was a Commodore Pet. In 1985 I started working as a video game programmer for a small video game developer called Distinctive Software Inc. In 1990 DSI was bought by Electronic Arts and became Electronic Arts Canada. Over my years there I worked on video games for many different computer systems and video game machines. In 1997 I started my own business selling diecast cars on my website. I retired from Electronic Arts in the fall of 2002. Now we are running the mail-order business full time.

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Open Source Projects

I've been a c and c++ programmer for many years now. Below is a list of open source projects that I have used and would recommend.

MySQL - MySQL is the world's most popular open source database.
FreeType - FreeType, A Free, High-Quality, and Portable Font Engine.
jpeg - Independent JPEG Group is an informal group that writes and distributes a widely used free library for JPEG image compression.
libpng - libpng, the free reference library for reading and writing PNGs.
zlib - zlib, A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library.
upx - upx, the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables.

MinGW - MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs..

I'm just looking at these ones and so far they look pretty good
LibSDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library.
FFmpeg - FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video..

Geocaching