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0xNikilite/oboromi

a proof-of-concept project for a possible Nintendo Switch 2 emulator.

Stack

Rust Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#emulator #proof-of-concept #switch2 #wip

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

1,296

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Forks: 55
Commits: 269 commits
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wolfi-dev/os

Main package repository for production Wolfi images

AI dev

Stack

Shell Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#wolfi

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-07
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 99 open

1,294

stars

Forks: 445
Commits: 149,156 commits
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YannickJadoul/Parselmouth

Praat in Python, the Pythonic way

Stack

C++ Flask pytest CMake Meson PEP 517

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-24
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 22 open

1,294

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Forks: 131
Commits: 1,145 commits
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decaf-emu/decaf-emu

Researching Wii U emulation.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cpp #decaf-emu #emulator #wii-u

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

1,276

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 5,222 commits
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bareos/bareos

Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

AI dev

Stack

C++ FastAPI Qt Vite Vue CMake Composer npm

GitHub topics

#archiving #backup #backup-solution #backup-utility #bareos #ceph

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-02
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 81 open

1,266

stars

Forks: 318
Commits: 16,251 commits
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melpon/wandbox

Social Compilation Service

Stack

TypeScript Axum React Remix Tailwind CSS Cargo CMake npm

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-16
History: 7 history points
License: BSL-1.0
Issues: Disabled

1,265

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Forks: 108
Commits: 1,359 commits
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brenocq/implot3d

Immediate Mode 3D Plotting

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Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#3d #gui #imgui #plot #plotting #plotting-library

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-11-16
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,264

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 485 commits
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gemrb/gemrb

GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #engine #game #game-engine #isometric #python

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-10-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 183 open

1,255

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 28,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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colobot/colobot

Source code of open-source Colobot: Gold Edition project developed by Epsitec and TerranovaTeam

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#colobot #colobot-gold #game #programming

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-08
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 365 open

1,250

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 4,404 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yvt/openspades

Compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#ace-of-spades #action-game #c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform-game #fps

Updated: 2024-06-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 248 open

1,246

stars

Forks: 234
Commits: 2,167 commits
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Website GitHub

intel/media-driver

Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-30
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 266 open

1,245

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 8,390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods

Main development repository for Rigs of Rods soft-body physics simulator

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#airplanes #boats #cars #physics-simulation #sandbox-game #soft-bodies

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-11
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 236 open

1,240

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 6,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codilime/veles

Binary data analysis and visualization tool

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #hexeditor #python #qt #reverse-engineering #shaders

Updated: 2019-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-16
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 56 open

1,238

stars

Forks: 124
Commits: 637 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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asc-community/MxEngine

C++ open source 3D game engine

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #cpp #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #mxengine

Updated: 2024-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-15
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 18 open

1,233

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 334 commits
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ASC-Community/MxEngine

C++ open source 3D game engine

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #cpp #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #mxengine

Updated: 2024-04-06
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-15
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 18 open

1,231

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 334 commits
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yodaos-project/yodaos

Yet another Linux distribution for voice-enabled IoT and embrace Web standards

Stack

C CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#javascript #linux #nodejs #openwrt #web #yodaos

Updated: 2019-12-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-13
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

1,227

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 107 commits
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fastogt/fastonosql

FastoNoSQL is a crossplatform Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika, Dynomite, KeyDB GUI management tool.

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#crossplatform-redis #database-gui #dynomite #forestdb #indexeddb #leveldb

Updated: 2023-08-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-13
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 17 open

1,223

stars

Forks: 99
Commits: 414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fraunhoferhhi/vvenc

VVenC, the Fraunhofer Versatile Video Encoder

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#codec #encoder #h266 #video #vvc

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-07
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause-Clear
Issues: 18 open

1,210

stars

Forks: 230
Commits: 734 commits
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hugeicons/hugeicons

Beautiful, consistent, pixel-perfect icons for every framework. 54,000+ icons (5,400+ free) for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, React Native, Flutter and more.

Stack

Dart Android Angular Express Flutter CMake Dart Pub Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2026-06-15
History: 40 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

1,192

stars

Forks: 43
Commits: 13 commits
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simple64/simple64

Accurate N64 Emulator

Archived

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulation #n64

Updated: 2025-02-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

1,178

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 983 commits
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Hydr8gon/NooDS

A (hopefully!) speedy DS emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 100 open

1,162

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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pound-emu/pound

Open source emulator for the Nintedo Switch 1 and 2. Highly work in progress

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #homebrew #nintendo #nintendo-switch #nintendo-switch-2

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-06
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

1,151

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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facebookresearch/fairseq2

FAIR Sequence Modeling Toolkit 2

Stack

Python pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #deep-learning #machine-learning #python #pytorch

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-02
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 151 open

1,146

stars

Forks: 145
Commits: 1,459 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TomHarte/CLK

A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum, Tandy CoCo and Thomson MO5/6.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#acorn-electron #amstrad-cpc #apple2 #appleii #archimedes #atari-st

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 95 open

1,144

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 14,921 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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skmp/reicast-emulator

Reicast was a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#aarch64 #armv7 #dreamcast #dynarec #emulator #x86

Updated: 2025-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 244 open

1,134

stars

Forks: 347
Commits: 4,015 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Unvanquished/Unvanquished

Unvanquished is a free and open source FPS/RTS hybrid game powered by the Daemon game engine. Historically based on Tremulous as a continuation with decades of work over it.

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #daemon-game #fps-game #game #game-development #glm

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-29
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 681 open

1,129

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 14,141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Rosalie241/RMG

Rosalie's Mupen GUI

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-12
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 139 open

1,119

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 1,869 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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dpjudas/SurrealEngine

Unreal Engine 1 Reimplementation

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-02
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

1,103

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 2,340 commits
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GitHub

gscept/nebula

Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#classless-api #data-oriented-architecture #game-engine #game-engine-3d #linux #multithreading

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 3,722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

arx/ArxLibertatis

Cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#arx-fatalis #c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform #dungeon-crawler #game

Updated: 2024-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-15
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,096

stars

Forks: 153
Commits: 21,738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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