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Top 23 Retro Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-30
Love the look, definitely throwing me back to the halcyon QBasic days.
Another way to achieve an old school raster style green screen aesthetic is to combine cool-retro-term with the minimal editor "micro".
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
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Project mention: WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-05
Here for example is a rust template: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/main/templates/rust
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98
💿 Web-based Windows 98 desktop recreation █████▓█▓▓▒▓▒▒░▒░░░🗕︎🗗︎🗙︎
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Project mention: ShaderGlass – Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-03
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BassoonTracker
Webbased old-school Amiga music tracker in plain old javascript - Plays and edits Amiga Mod files and FastTracker XM files
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RetroDECK
RetroDECK brings you an all-in-one sandboxed application to play your retro games (and even not-so-retro games) on Linux/SteamOS.
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retronas
Use a Raspberry Pi, old computer or VM as network storage for different retro computers and consoles
Project mention: Retronas: Use a Raspberry Pi, old by computer or VM as network storage | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-08 -
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Retro discussion
Retro related posts
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98.js - Windows 98 Online
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Kid Pix: The Early Years
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WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console
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80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC
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X11-Basic (1991-2020)
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Doomretro – The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC
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Show HN: Pixeltune, a nicer chiptune and VGM player
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Retro projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool-retro-term | 22,699 |
| 2 | jspaint | 7,334 |
| 3 | TIC-80 | 5,149 |
| 4 | rx | 3,186 |
| 5 | rust-doom | 2,353 |
| 6 | chocolate-doom | 1,984 |
| 7 | NsCDE | 1,974 |
| 8 | awesome-web-desktops | 1,467 |
| 9 | BYTEPATH | 1,416 |
| 10 | hoard-of-bitfonts | 1,356 |
| 11 | 98 | 1,197 |
| 12 | one-html-page-challenge | 1,156 |
| 13 | ShaderGlass | 1,062 |
| 14 | BassoonTracker | 1,038 |
| 15 | cdogs-sdl | 920 |
| 16 | quadplay | 901 |
| 17 | DOjS | 881 |
| 18 | OpenHV | 879 |
| 19 | vintageJS | 843 |
| 20 | systemshock | 821 |
| 21 | RetroDECK | 821 |
| 22 | retronas | 797 |
| 23 | URP-PSX | 727 |
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