Wycombe District
—  Non-metropolitan district  —
Wycombe shown within Buckinghamshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	Buckinghamshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	High Wycombe
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Wycombe District Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet (Conservative)
• MPs	Steve Baker John Bercow Dominic Grieve David Lidington
Area
• Total	125.32 sq mi (324.57 km2)
Area rank	135th (of 326)
Population (2010 est.)
• Total	164,800
• Rank	109th (of 326)
• Density	1,300/sq mi (510/km2)
• Ethnicity	86.8% White 7.9% S.Asian 2.6% Black British 1.8% Mixed Race
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ONS code	11UC
OS grid reference	SU867929
Website	www.wycombe.gov.uk

Wycombe ( /ˈwɪkəm/) is a local government district in Buckinghamshire in south central England. It is administered by Wycombe District Council in the town of High Wycombe. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a merger of the borough of High Wycombe, Marlow Urban District and Wycombe Rural District.

Constituent parts[link]

The Wycombe District Council area comprises:

Towns

• High Wycombe
• Princes Risborough
• Marlow

Civil parishes

There are 28 civil parishes including 2 where a Parish Meeting is held in lieu of a Parish Council.

Sports clubs

High Wycombe is home to Wycombe Wanderers F.C. and London Wasps; within the district's boundaries are the homes of Marlow F.C., Marlow United F.C. and Marlow Rugby Club.

Council affiliation[link]

Following the local elections in May 2011, the council comprises the following:^[1]

Transport[link]

The district is bisected by the M40, with a major junction with the A404 at High Wycombe. The A404 connects Marlow and Wycombe within the district. The main railway line through the district, the Chiltern Main Line has major stations at High Wycombe and Princes Risborough. The Marlow Branch Line and Princes Risborough line also provide commuter services.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Wycombe District Council website
• CountyCapital.co.uk Discussion Website about Aylesbury and the surrounding area
• Wycombe Online - community news, information and business directory for Wycombe
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wycombe". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

v t e Wycombe District Buckinghamshire County Council elections District Council elections Aylesbury Constituency Beaconsfield Constituency Buckingham Constituency Wycombe Constituency Towns (component areas and hamlets) High Wycombe Cressex Micklefield Sands Terriers Totteridge Wycombe Marsh Marlow Forty Green Princes Risborough Alscot Askett Cadsden Flowers Bottom Loosley Row Lower North Dean Monks Risborough North Dean Redland End Speen Upper North Dean Whiteleaf Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets) Bledlow-cum-Saunderton Bledlow Bledlow Ridge Crownfield Forty Green Holly Green Pitch Green Rout's Green Saunderton Saunderton Lee Skittle Green Bradenham Bradenham Walters Ash Chepping Wycombe Flackwell Heath Loudwater Tylers Green Downley Ellesborough Butlers Cross Chalkshire Coombe Dunsmore Ellesborough Nash Lee North Lee Terrick Fawley Fawley Fawley Bottom Great and Little Hampden Great Hampden Green Hailey Hampden Row Little Hampden Great and Little Kimble Great Kimble Kimble Wick Little Kimble Marsh Smoky Row Great Marlow Bovingdon Green Burroughs Grove Chisbridge Cross Danesfield Marlow Common Hambleden Colstrope Fingest Frieth Hambleden Mill End Parmoor Pheasant's Hill Skirmett Hazlemere Hedsor Hedsor Widmoor Hughenden Cryers Hill Four Ashes Great Kingshill Hughenden Valley Hunt's Hill Naphill Naphill Common Widmer End Ibstone Lacey Green Lacey Green Parslow's Hillock Wardrobes Lane End Cadmore Ditchfield Lane End Moor Common Moor End Little Marlow Coldmoorholme Fern Handy Cross Little Marlow Sheepridge Well End Winchbottom Longwick-cum-Ilmer Horsenden Ilmer Little Meadle Longwick Meadle Owlswick Marlow Bottom Medmenham Bockmer End Lower Woodend Medmenham Rockwell End Piddington and Wheeler End Piddington Wheeler End Radnage Bennett End Radnage The City Waterend Stokenchurch Beacon's Bottom Bolter End Horsleys Green Stokenchurch Studley Green Water End Turville Northend Southend Turville Turville Heath West Wycombe Booker West Wycombe Wooburn and Bourne End Berghers Hill Bourne End Cores End Hawks Hill Widmoor Wooburn Wooburn Green Wooburn Moor Former districts and boroughs Marlow Urban District Wycombe Rural District Former constituencies Buckinghamshire County Constituency Great Marlow Constituency Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire Places in Buckinghamshire Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire

v t e Districts of South East England Berkshire Bracknell Forest Reading Slough West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale Chiltern Milton Keynes South Bucks Wycombe East Sussex Brighton and Hove Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane East Hampshire Eastleigh Fareham Gosport Hart Havant New Forest Portsmouth Rushmoor Southampton Test Valley Winchester Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Kent Ashford Canterbury Dartford Dover Gravesham Maidstone Medway Sevenoaks Shepway Swale Thanet Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Oxfordshire Cherwell Oxford South Oxfordshire Vale of White Horse West Oxfordshire Surrey Elmbridge Epsom and Ewell Guildford Mole Valley Reigate and Banstead Runnymede Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tandridge Waverley Woking West Sussex Adur Arun Chichester Crawley Horsham Mid Sussex Worthing

Coordinates: 51°38′19″N 0°48′28″W / 51.6385°N 0.8079°W / 51.6385; -0.8079

Wycombe may refer to:

• Wycombe, Bucks or High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Wycombe (district), a local government district surrounding High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England
  • Wycombe Rural District, a former local government district
  • Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)
• Wycombe, Pennsylvania, a village in Wrightstown Township, Pennsylvania

See also[link]

• Wycomb

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Ryan C. Gordon
Ryan C. Gordon giving a talk at the SouthEast LinuxFest on June 13, 2009.
Residence	Charlotte, North Carolina
Other names	icculus
Employer	Loki Software (formerly)
Spouse	Carrie (2010-present)
Children	Olive Finch Gordon
Website
icculus.org/~icculus/

Ryan C. Gordon (also known as icculus) is a computer programmer and former Loki Software employee who is now responsible for icculus.org, which hosts many Loki Software projects as well as several new projects created by himself and others. Gordon's site hosts projects with the code from such commercial games as Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Quake III Arena and many other free and open source projects for multiple platforms.

Gordon has also created ports of proprietary software products to the Linux and Mac OS X platforms. These include being hired to port the Unreal Tournament series, some of the Serious Sam series, the Postal series, Devastation and Prey. He has also been involved in porting several non-gaming products such as Google Earth. Some, such as Candy Cruncher and Postal 2, have been published by Linux Game Publishing. He has also been described alongside Edward Rudd as being "instrumental" in ensuring the multi-platform nature of the Humble Indie Bundle initiatives.^[1]

Gordon is also a founding member of the BareBones Theatre Group in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[2]

Biography[link]

Ryan grew up just outside of Philadelphia, going to college in Charlotte, North Carolina where he currently resides.^[3] In the summer of 1999 Loki Software ran a contest called "Loki Hack" at the Atlanta Linux Showcase, with the goal of improving the Linux port of Civilization: Call To Power.^[4][5] Ryan decided to give it a try, driving the four hour trip from his home to Atlanta.^[6] Loki was impressed with his work and decided to offer him a job.^[7] Ryan quickly rose to prominence at Loki, working as a developer on the game ports of Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Quake III Arena, and Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, as well as being the lead developer for Descent 3 and Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.².^[8] In 2000 he also wrote several articles for the online Linux news and information website Linux.com.^[9] Around this time he founded icculus.org, made to provide hosting for various free and open source projects, and would later be used to support and continue some of Loki's free software projects and tools.

The upcoming closure of Loki forced him to seek outside employment. A friend offered him a job at his cybercafe, and he was forced to move in with his parents. Desperate to escape working a cash register for a living, he found the e-mail address of an artist working for the developer Croteam. They had recently released the first of their highly successfully Serious Sam series, and Ryan asked if they would be interested in him building a Linux port.^[7] They agreed, and the ports first beta was released on December 5, 2002.^[10] From there he gained other contracts such as being hired to port Devastation and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for Linux and America's Army for Linux and Mac OS X.^[11] He was also contracted by Epic Games to port their Unreal Tournament 2003 title to Linux and Mac OS X, with the port being included with the packaged Windows version.^[12] This business relationship continued with the release of Unreal Tournament 2004.

Upon learning about the release of Postal 2 in 2003, Ryan decided to contact the developer behind it wondering if they would be interested in him making a port of the game to Linux and Mac OS X. Loki had previously ported the original Postal to Linux, and he was interested in keeping the franchise compatible.^[13] Running With Scissors agreed, and the finished port was shipped on February 14, 2005, with Linux Game Publishing initially handling the publishing of the Linux version.^[14] Soon after he was contracted to make a Linux port for the Wolfire Games title Lugaru, a business relationship that would later prove fruitful for Gordon.^[15] Around this time he was also contracted to build a Linux client for the online virtual world Second Life.^[16] Google also utilized his services, with him being contracted to make a native Linux port of their Google Earth application, with Linux functionality finally becoming available starting with the release of the version 4 beta on June 12, 2006.^[17]

In 2007 he was once again contracted by Epic Games to port their new Unreal Tournament 3 title to both Linux and Mac OS X. The Linux game server was released on December 18, 2007,^[18] but work was eventually abandoned on the Linux and Mac OS X clients for reasons which remain undisclosed.^[19] In October 2008 he made a surprise announcement that he had been working on a Linux client for the first-person shooter game Prey, after previously porting the game's Linux server in 2006. Although there had been some speculation about a potential Linux release, it had been denied by the developer of the title in the past.^[20] The finished port was released on December 7, 2008.^[21][22] On October 23, 2009 he announced his plans to make a universal binary system similar to the one used on Mac OS X for Linux systems called FatELF. The project generated considerable controversy, with several Linux Kernel developers decrying the effort.^[23] Ryan announced that the project was on hold in early November,^[24] later stating that he would be willing to work on it again if he receives help from an interested party.^[25]

Around this time he also started to port Aquaria to Linux for Bit Blot.^[26] On January 3, 2010 he became engaged to his girlfriend Carrie and were married later that year.^[27] On May 11, 2010 he and Wolfire Games released the source code of his code branch of Lugaru under the GNU General Public License.^[28] He was also involved with the source code release of Aquaria; both having been shipped as part of the first Humble Indie Bundle. He was then contracted to port Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 to Mac OS X, stating that he he could potentially port it to Linux if Steam ever releases a Linux client.^[29] Ryan also generated some controversy that summer for his talk at the 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest titled "Anatomy of a Failure", where he criticized some aspects of the Kernel development process.^[30] He then ported Braid to both Linux and Mac OS X to allow it to be part of the second Humble Indie Bundle, as well as porting the games Cogs and Hammerfight for later bundles.^[31] As part of this he ported the "Haaf's Game Engine" to Linux and Mac OS X, and released his port under a free software license.^[32] He also ported Frozen Synapse to Linux to be included as the primary part of the Frozen Synapse Bundle, as well as Super Meat Boy and Shank for Humble Indie Bundle 4. On January 31, 2012 his wife gave birth to their first child, Olive Finch Gordon.

icculus.org[link]

icculus.org is Ryan C. Gordon's personal website and a project incubator not unlike Sourceforge.net and GNU Savannah. Gordon is often involved in the projects hosted on his site but not universally. The site hosts port or enhancement projects for games such as Aliens versus Predator, Jump 'n Bump, DONKEY.BAS, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Freespace 2, Descent 2, Black Shades, Ken's Labyrinth, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, Hexen, cooperative Rune, Quake II, the Build engine, Unreal (as an Unreal Tournament mod) and the Chzo Mythos. The site also hosts free software projects such as Neverball, ioquake3 and related projects, an attempted Visual Basic re-implementation, OpenAL for Mac OS X, and a Yahoo! Messenger client. It is also the host of the freeware CodeRED: Alien Arena project and has hosted code from the developers Blazing Games,^[33] Piga Software,^[34] Wolfire Games, and Bit Blot.

Ported titles[link]

The following is a list of all the games and software that Ryan Gordon has been involved in porting. It does not mention his game server ports.^[35]

Humble Indie Bundle[link]

• Avadon: The Black Fortress (Linux, 2012)
• Super Meat Boy (Linux, 2011)
• Shank (Linux and Mac OS X, 2011)
• Frozen Synapse (Linux, 2011)
• Cogs (Linux, 2011)
• Hammerfight (Linux and Mac OS X, 2011)
• Braid (Linux and Mac OS X, 2010)

Independently Contracted[link]

• Aquaria (Linux and Mac OS X, 2008-2010)
• Prey (Linux, 2008)^[36][37][38]
• Second Life (Linux, 2008)
• Google Earth (Linux, 2006)
• Lugaru (Linux, 2005)^[39]
• Postal 2 (Linux and Mac OS X, 2004-2005)
• Postal (Linux and Mac OS X, 2005)
• Unreal Tournament 2004 (Linux, Mac OS X, and Win64, 2004)
• Shadow Ops: Red Mercury (Win64, 2004)
• Candy Cruncher (Linux, BeOS, and Mac OS, 2003)
• America's Army (Linux and Mac OS X, 2002-2006)^[40]
• Unreal Tournament 2003 (Linux and Mac OS X, 2002)
• Unrealty (Mac OS)

Mac OS X only[link]

• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (Mac OS X, 2010)
• Façade (Mac OS X, 2005)
• Shrek 2 (Mac OS X, 2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (Mac OS X, 2004)
• Feeding Frenzy (Mac OS X, 2005)
• Iggle Pop (Mac OS X)
• Pizza Frenzy (Mac OS X)
• Candy Crisis (Mac OS X)
• IMVU client (Mac OS X)
• Ricochet: Lost Worlds (Mac OS X, 2005)
• Big Kahuna Reef (Mac OS X, 2005)
• RocketBowl (Mac OS X, 2006).
• Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures (Mac OS X, 2006)
• Hidden Mysteries Civil War (Mac OS X, 2008)
• Magic Match Adventures (Mac OS X, 2008)
• Go-Go Gourmet 2 (Mac OS X)
• Go-Go Gourmet (Mac OS X, 2008)

Loki Software[link]

• Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns (Linux, 2001)
• Eric's Ultimate Solitaire (Linux, 2000)
• Descent 3 (Linux, 2000)
• Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.² (Linux, 2000)
• Quake III Arena (Linux, 1999)

Unfinished Ports (Beta)[link]

• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Linux)^[41]
• Devastation (Linux)
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (Linux)
• Serious Sam: The First Encounter (Linux)^[42]

Unreleased Ports[link]

• Unreal Tournament 3 (Linux / Mac OS X)

See also[link]

• Loki Software
• Michael Simms
• Timothee Besset
• loki installers for linux gamers

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ryan C. Gordon

• icculus.org — hosts many Loki projects, as well as other Linux and open source gaming resources.
• Ryan C. Gordon's homepage
• Ryan C. Gordon on Twitter
• Ryan C. Gordon on the Libregamewiki
• Ryan Gordon profile at zoominfo
• 2009 interview with Icculus (hardware.no)
• 2007 interview with Icculus (LinuxGames)
• 2005 Interview with Icculus (Phoronix)
• 2004 Interview with Icculus (Inside Mac Games)