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scummvm/scummvm

ScummVM main repository

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#adventure-engine #adventure-games #multiplatform #rpg-engine

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-09
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,807

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Forks: 1,374
Commits: 178,901 commits
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Website GitHub

vllm-project/vllm-ascend

Community maintained hardware plugin for vLLM on Ascend

AI dev

Stack

C++ FastAPI pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ascend #inference #llm #llm-serving #llmops #mlops

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-29
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,178 open

2,800

stars

Forks: 2,234
Commits: 5,179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD

Music Player Daemon

Stack

C++ Gradle Meson pip

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-player #music

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-02-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 167 open

2,783

stars

Forks: 429
Commits: 19,922 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

weihuoya/citra

A Nintendo 3DS Emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#3ds #android #emulator #new3ds

Updated: 2025-11-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-30
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 550 open

2,762

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 8,715 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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Website GitHub

google/earthenterprise

Google Earth Enterprise - Open Source

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#2d-map #3d-globe #c-plus-plus #earth #earth-enterprise #fusion

Updated: 2023-01-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 252 open

2,750

stars

Forks: 898
Commits: 1,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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google/s2geometry

Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip uv

GitHub topics

#geometry #s2 #spatial-indexing #spherical-geometry

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-10
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 90 open

2,733

stars

Forks: 360
Commits: 831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dvorka/mindforger

Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#debian #ide #knowledge #knowledge-management #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-25
History: 16 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 609 open

2,722

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 2,048 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dvorka-oss/mindforger

Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#debian #ide #knowledge #knowledge-management #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 632 open

2,711

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 1,850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thestinger/termite

Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

Archived

Stack

C++

Updated: 2021-05-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-22
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

2,705

stars

Forks: 239
Commits: 844 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Qalculate/libqalculate

Qalculate! library and CLI

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 206 open

2,686

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 2,056 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jlblancoc/nanoflann

nanoflann: a C++11 header-only library for Nearest Neighbor (NN) search with KD-trees

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #kd-trees #nanoflann #point-clouds

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-25
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 42 open

2,683

stars

Forks: 526
Commits: 704 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

henki-robotics/robotics_essentials_ros2

Learn the basics of robotics through hands-on experience using ROS 2 and Gazebo simulation.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#course #navigation #odometry #path-planning #ros2 #slam

Updated: 2025-11-25
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-10-30
History: 64 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

2,682

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 62 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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everdox/InfinityHook

Hook system calls, context switches, page faults and more.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-05-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-17
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 8 open

2,681

stars

Forks: 513
Commits: 16 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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teeworlds/teeworlds

A retro multiplayer shooter

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #game #linux #macos #multiplayer

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-22
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 361 open

2,646

stars

Forks: 655
Commits: 6,560 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

xenia-canary/xenia-canary

Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #d3d12 #emulation #emulator #ppc

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,640

stars

Forks: 337
Commits: 8,802 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GameTechDev/PresentMon

Capture and analyze the high-level performance characteristics of graphics applications on Windows.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Vite Vue CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#tool

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 206 open

2,625

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 3,013 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

shaka-project/shaka-packager

A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-13
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 149 open

2,600

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 1,620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flyinghead/flycast

Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #sega-dreamcast #sega-naomi

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 312 open

2,578

stars

Forks: 358
Commits: 7,356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

dmlc/decord

An efficient video loader for deep learning with smart shuffling that's super easy to digest

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#video-loader

Updated: 2024-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-18
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 221 open

2,524

stars

Forks: 230
Commits: 352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

man-group/ArcticDB

ArcticDB is a high performance, serverless DataFrame database built for the Python Data Science ecosystem.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #data #data-analysis #data-science #database #dataframe

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-15
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 356 open

2,524

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 2,116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jarulraj/sqlcheck

Automatically identify anti-patterns in SQL queries

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#command-line #database #microsoft-sql-server #mysql #oracle #postgresql

Updated: 2024-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 14 open

2,521

stars

Forks: 121
Commits: 247 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

Overload-Technologies/Overload

3D game engine with lua scripting

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #3d-graphics #c-plus-plus #cpp #game-editor #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 107 open

2,495

stars

Forks: 290
Commits: 620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp

Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-08-04
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 224 open

2,485

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 2,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

griddb/griddb

GridDB is a next-generation open source database that makes time series IoT and big data fast,and easy.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Maven

GitHub topics

#bigdata #database #fast #griddb #iot #newsql

Updated: 2026-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-24
History: 147 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

2,474

stars

Forks: 4,961
Commits: 500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

alexbatalov/fallout2-ce

Fallout 2 for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fallout2 #game #isometric

Updated: 2025-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-19
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,421

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 879 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SourMesen/Mesen2

Multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, GB, GBA, PCE, SMS/GG, WS) for Windows, Linux and macOS

Archived

Stack

C++ Avalonia .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-gear #gameboy #gba #master-system #nes

Updated: 2026-06-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,415

stars

Forks: 377
Commits: 3,511 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

ossappscollective/OSS-DocumentScanner

Document scanning app

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android React Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #document #document-scan #document-scan-to-text #document-scanner #document-scanner-app

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 89 open

2,404

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 4,378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hzqst/VmwareHardenedLoader

Vmware Hardened VM detection mitigation loader (anti anti-vm)

AI dev

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

2,387

stars

Forks: 546
Commits: 130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

idaholab/moose

Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#amr #fem #finite-elements #finite-volumes #multiphysics #object-oriented

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-10
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 2,882 open

2,382

stars

Forks: 1,270
Commits: 67,232 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

strato-emu/strato

Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device!

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cpp #emulation #emulator #nintendo

Updated: 2024-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 30 open

2,348

stars

Forks: 296
Commits: 2,207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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