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

2,744

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Forks: 898
Commits: 1,779 commits
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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: 2026-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-11
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 779 open

2,691

stars

Forks: 461
Commits: 23,695 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: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 42 open

2,660

stars

Forks: 526
Commits: 674 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, 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: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 360 open

2,620

stars

Forks: 646
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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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: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 88 open

2,454

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 609 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: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-10
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,375

stars

Forks: 287
Commits: 8,599 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

2,338

stars

Forks: 292
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: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 276 open

2,277

stars

Forks: 703
Commits: 4,675 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-07-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-03-21
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 728 open

2,262

stars

Forks: 426
Commits: 12,503 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: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-25
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 81 open

2,196

stars

Forks: 566
Commits: 8,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-04
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 276 open

1,981

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 10,964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-09-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 220 open

1,916

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 2,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,902

stars

Forks: 434
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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 3 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 50 open

1,816

stars

Forks: 369
Commits: 6,729 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 138 open

1,664

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

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: 4 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 128 open

1,662

stars

Forks: 282
Commits: 2,647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 87 open

1,623

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 912 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-06-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-11
History: 3 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 44 open

1,532

stars

Forks: 318
Commits: 3,315 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: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 13 open

1,508

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: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-14
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 52 open

1,381

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 6,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 62 open

1,378

stars

Forks: 85
Commits: 2,521 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: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-11-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 572 open

1,356

stars

Forks: 479
Commits: 6,610 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-01-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 112 open

1,332

stars

Forks: 282
Commits: 17,058 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,306

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

1,225

stars

Forks: 229
Commits: 2,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-10-02
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 194 open

1,219

stars

Forks: 215
Commits: 28,141 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: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,073

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 21,738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CasparCG/server

CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#broadcast #broadcasting #c-plus-plus #casparcg #casparcg-server #graphics

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-14
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 253 open

1,067

stars

Forks: 311
Commits: 4,185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

luispedro/mahotas

Computer Vision in Python

Stack

Python pytest Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #numpy #python #python-2 #python-3

Updated: 2026-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-12
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

888

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 1,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

uroni/urbackup_backend

UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux

Stack

C Android React Vite CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-solution #c-plus-plus #freebsd #linux #windows

Updated: 2026-06-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-06
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

885

stars

Forks: 167
Commits: 6,140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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