tvollstaedt/exodium

Cross-platform retro game launcher based on eXoDOS

Games & graphicsRust

3.1 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 27, 2026, 15:40 UTC.

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About the project

A cross-platform launcher for the eXoDOS collections: browse the catalogue, stream individual games via torrents, and launch them in DOSBox, ScummVM, or Windows 9x emulators.

Useful for

Launch a classic DOS game without downloading the full 500 GB collection
Browse the eXoDOS catalogue and view box scans and screenshots
Configure a CRT shader and CPU cycles for a specific game

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

3 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #11, +14 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 284
Today: 3 · ≈ 7 by evening
Forks: 9
Issues and pull requests: 38
Watchers: 5
Language: Rust
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.15.1 · September 25, 2026
Created: April 6, 2026
Last push: September 25, 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.

Spotted in

September 27, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #11, +14 stars

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