# mamedev/mame

> An emulation framework that documents and preserves vintage arcade machines, computers, consoles and calculators by recreating their hardware in code. The source serves as documentation, and working emulation validates its accuracy.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 10,567 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-05, 10:59–11:56 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C++ · Created: 2013-11-11 · Last push: 2026-10-05
- GitHub: https://github.com/mamedev/mame · Homepage: https://www.mamedev.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/mamedev/mame

## Useful for

- Run an old arcade game or console system on a modern PC
- Build MAME from source with make for your platform
- Study the source to learn how specific vintage hardware worked

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-05 (UTC), 10:59–11:56: 10568 → 10567 stars (-1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +10 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,564
- Issues and pull requests: 16,091
- Watchers: 328
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): -1
- Latest release: mame0289 (2026-07-30)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-06 … 2026-10-05: 5, 6, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 10, 8, 7, 4, 4, 1, 3, 5, 8, 4, 5, 4, 5, 1, 4, 2, 2, 4, 6, 5, 4, 9, 0

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +10 stars

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/touchHLE/touchHLE.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-05 12:40 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.