mindbox77/zxdesk
- Total stars
- 132
- Today
- +3since 00:24 UTC
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About the project
A graphical windowed OS for the 48K ZX Spectrum written in Z80 assembly: overlapping windows, menus, a heap, an event queue, a file manager and settings — all fitting in 48K and running on real hardware.
Useful for
- Run ZX Desk on a real 48K ZX Spectrum or in the Fuse emulator
- Build the tape with build.sh and pasmo and load it onto the machine
- Use SCRIPT=1 to replay synthetic input for reproducible window interactions
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 6, 2026, 13:38 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-06 (UTC), 00:24–13:33: 129 → 132 stars (+3). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +6 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 20 days old and already has 132 stars.
- Hacker News: “A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum” — 131 points, 16 days ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 7 · October 5, 2026. Days with data: 2.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 6, 2026, 13:38 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 132
- Today
- +3 stars measured 2026-10-06, 00:24–13:33 UTC, ≈ 6 by evening
- Forks
- 5
- Issues and pull requests
- 1
- Watchers
- 5
- Language
- Assembly
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v1.2.0 · October 4, 2026
- Created
- September 16, 2026
- Last push
- October 4, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum131 points, September 19, 2026
Spotted in
- September 26, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 25, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 24, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 23, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 22, 2026Top new repositories this week: #193; Spotted on Hacker News
- September 21, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 20, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 19, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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