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eteran/edb-debugger

edb is a cross-platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #capstone #debugger #edb #linux #ollydbg

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-19
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 67 open

2,954

stars

Forks: 345
Commits: 3,404 commits
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alexbatalov/fallout1-ce

Fallout for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fallout #game #isometric

Updated: 2025-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-09
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 136 open

2,911

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 75 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 252 open

2,749

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Forks: 894
Commits: 1,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TASEmulators/BizHawk

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.

Stack

C# Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #c-sharp #dotnet #emulation #emulator #saturn

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-11
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 803 open

2,745

stars

Forks: 465
Commits: 23,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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
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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: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 361 open

2,638

stars

Forks: 651
Commits: 6,560 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-10
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 153 open

2,515

stars

Forks: 307
Commits: 8,711 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 97 open

2,475

stars

Forks: 288
Commits: 610 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

2,346

stars

Forks: 293
Commits: 2,207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JACoders/OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #fps #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 279 open

2,287

stars

Forks: 716
Commits: 4,675 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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synfig/synfig

This is the Official source code repository of Synfig Studio animation software

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #animation #c-plus-plus #gtkmm #hacktoberfest #synfig

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 729 open

2,279

stars

Forks: 430
Commits: 12,513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rwengine/openrw

OpenRW "Open ReWrite" is an un-official open source recreation of the classic Grand Theft Auto III game executable

Stack

C++ Qt CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #gta #gta3 #linux-game #macosx-game

Updated: 2025-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-29
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 117 open

2,220

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 2,016 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OpenXcom/OpenXcom

Open-source clone of the original X-Com 👽

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #openxcom-game #sdl #strategy-game-engine #turn-based-combat

Updated: 2026-06-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 84 open

2,215

stars

Forks: 579
Commits: 8,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#browser #bsd #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-04
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 276 open

1,983

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 10,991 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

enzo1982/freac

The fre:ac audio converter project

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aac #alac #audio #c-plus-plus #cd-ripper #converter

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-09-22
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 222 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 2,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenLoco/OpenLoco

An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #game #hacktoberfest #help-wanted #linux

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 458 open

1,903

stars

Forks: 220
Commits: 4,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

baidu/tera

An Internet-Scale Database.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#baidu #bigtable #c-plus-plus #data #database #hbase

Updated: 2024-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-26
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,902

stars

Forks: 433
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 49 open

1,829

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 6,746 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bwapi/bwapi

Brood War API

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#ai #brood-war-api #broodwar #bwapi #c-plus-plus #game

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-04-28
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 129 open

1,670

stars

Forks: 285
Commits: 2,647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop

Network file transfer application for Windows, OS X, & Linux

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform #gui #nitroshare #qhttpengine

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-01-09
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 137 open

1,666

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 1,342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Xtra-Computing/thundersvm

ThunderSVM: A Fast SVM Library on GPUs and CPUs

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #classification #cuda #gpu #libsvm #one-class-learning

Updated: 2024-04-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-12-11
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 87 open

1,621

stars

Forks: 222
Commits: 912 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenShot/libopenshot

OpenShot Video Library (libopenshot) is a free, open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing, animation, and playback solutions to the world. API currently supports C++, Python, and Ruby.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #lgplv3 #openshot #qt5 #video

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-11
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 46 open

1,535

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 3,346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MrKepzie/Natron

Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #openfx #vfx

Updated: 2018-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-06
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 13 open

1,509

stars

Forks: 161
Commits: 15,070 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gerbera/gerbera

UPnP Media Server for 2026: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺

Stack

C++ Express CMake Conan npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #dlna #dlna-server #duktape #flac

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-14
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,394

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 6,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS

HLE 3DS emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#3ds #android #arm #c-plus-plus #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 65 open

1,393

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 2,527 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openbabel/openbabel

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #chemical-data #chemical-toolbox #cheminformatics #chemistry

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-11-27
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 578 open

1,376

stars

Forks: 482
Commits: 6,623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

inspircd/inspircd

A high-performance Internet Relay Chat (IRCv3) server for UNIX-like and Windows systems

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #inspircd #internet-relay-chat #irc #irc-protocol #irc-server

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-01-23
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 112 open

1,348

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 17,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Harrison1/unrealcpp

Unreal Engine 4 C++ examples

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #ue4 #unreal #unreal-engine #unreal-engine-4 #unrealengine

Updated: 2024-11-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,307

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 248 open

1,244

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 2,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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