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    libjpeg-turbo

    libjpeg-turbo

    SIMD-accelerated libjpeg-compatible JPEG codec library

    libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java interface.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 16 Reviews
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    opencore-amr

    Audio codecs extracted from Android Open Source Project

    Library of OpenCORE Framework implementation of Adaptive Multi Rate Narrowband and Wideband (AMR-NB and AMR-WB) speech codec. Library of VisualOn implementation of Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoder. Modified library of Fraunhofer AAC decoder and encoder.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 19 Reviews
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    mpg123
    This is the fast and Free (LGPL license) real time MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2 and 3 decoding library and console player. It uses floating point or integer math, along with several special optimizations (3DNow, SSE, ARM, ...) to make it most efficient.
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    4.9 out of 5 stars 27 Reviews
    Downloads: 12,467 This Week
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    LuaBinaries
    LuaBinaries is a distribution of the Lua libraries and executables compiled for several platforms.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 13 Reviews
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    AssetStudio

    AssetStudio

    AssetStudio is a tool for exploring, extracting and exporting assets

    AssetStudio is a cross-platform tool for exploring, extracting, and exporting assets from Unity games—supporting assetbundles and built-in assets. It handles textures, sprites, audio, meshes, shaders, and more, exporting to formats like png, bmp, mp3, wav. The original is archived (supports Unity ≤2022.1); forks like AssetStudio2024 add support for newer Unity versions and Lua asset decompiling.
    Downloads: 1,139 This Week
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    tlaplus

    tlaplus

    TLC is an explicit state model checker for specifications in TLA+

    TLC is an explicit state model checker for specifications written in TLA+. The TLA+Toolbox is an IDE for TLA+. TLA+ is a high-level language for modeling programs and systems--especially concurrent and distributed ones. It's based on the idea that the best way to describe things precisely is with simple mathematics. TLA+ and its tools are useful for eliminating fundamental design errors, which are hard to find and expensive to correct in code.
    Downloads: 858 This Week
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    GTK+2 for Windows Runtime Environment

    GTK+2 for Windows Runtime Environment

    The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows

    This is the GTK+2 Runtime Environment Installer for Windows. It includes all of the files required to run GTK+2 applications on Windows. Some support tools are also available. This project is no longer maintained. Please use its successor: https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer
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    4.8 out of 5 stars 20 Reviews
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    libusb

    libusb

    A cross-platform library that gives apps easy access to USB devices

    Library to enable user space application programs to communicate with USB devices
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    4.6 out of 5 stars 16 Reviews
    Downloads: 4,163 This Week
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    The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
    The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library is a simple tool that helps C/C++ developers initialize extensions and write portable applications. GLEW currently supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Darwin, Irix, and Solaris.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 15 Reviews
    Downloads: 1,920 This Week
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    *NOTE* Migrated to http://github.com/cracklib/cracklib Next generation version of libCrack password checking library. As of Oct 2008 (reflected in 2.8.15 code release), licensed under LGPL.
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    4.9 out of 5 stars 7 Reviews
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    OpenCorePkg

    OpenCorePkg

    OpenCore bootloader

    OpenCorePkg is an open-source, modular UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootloader and development framework, primarily designed to enable macOS booting on non-Apple hardware (Hackintosh). It includes Apple-specific UEFI drivers, utilities for macOS installation support, and shared libraries used across Acidanthera projects. Apple disk image loading support. Apple keyboard input aggregation. Apple PE image signature verification. Apple UEFI secure boot supplemental code. Audio management with screen reading support. Basic ACPI and SMBIOS manipulation.
    Downloads: 296 This Week
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    OOO Extras

    OOO Extras

    Extra tools for OpenOffice under weak copyleft or other licenses

    A space to store classic OOo dependencies that cannot be easily redistributed in Apache OpenOffice's Source tree. Initially this was meant for copyleft tarballs only but it is also pretty handy to mirror other file dependencies.
    Downloads: 254 This Week
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    QB64

    QB64

    BASIC for the modern era

    QB64 is a modern self-hosting BASIC compiler that brings classic QBasic/QuickBASIC programs into the modern era. It enables legacy code to run on today’s operating systems with minimal modifications, while also introducing new commands and libraries for multimedia, networking, and 64-bit computing. QB64 compiles to C++ and includes a built-in IDE, making it accessible for beginners, hobbyists, and retro programming enthusiasts. It aims to preserve the ease and nostalgia of BASIC while expanding its capabilities for contemporary development.
    Downloads: 210 This Week
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    half

    C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics.

    This is a C++ header-only library to provide an IEEE-754 conformant half-precision floating point type along with corresponding arithmetic operators, type conversions and common mathematical functions. It aims for both efficiency and ease of use, trying to accurately mimic the behaviour of the builtin floating point types at the best performance possible. It automatically uses and provides C++11 features when possible, but stays completely C++98-compatible when neccessary.
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    Downloads: 5,576 This Week
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    LibUsbDotNet C# USB Library
    .NET C# USB library for WinUSB, LibUsb-Win32, and libusb-1.0. Using the common device classes, applications work with all operating systems and drivers without modification. Lots of example code. Open source software at sourceforge.net.
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 17 Reviews
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    AppSync

    AppSync

    Unified AppSync dynamic library for iOS 5 and above

    AppSync is a tool that enables sideloading and installation of unsigned iOS applications. It allows developers and users to install apps without requiring a paid Apple Developer account.
    Downloads: 158 This Week
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    macOS Cursors Megapack for Windows

    macOS Cursors Megapack for Windows

    Tested in Windows 10 & 11, 4K (125%, 150%, 200%)

    macOS Cursors Megapack for Windows. These cursors are only for 4K (3840 x 2160 pixel) resolution.
    Downloads: 148 This Week
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    mRemoteNG

    mRemoteNG

    mRemoteNG is the next generation of mRemote, open source

    mRemoteNG ("Multi‑Remote Next Generation") is a free, open‑source, tabbed remote connection manager for Windows. It consolidates multiple remote protocols (e.g., RDP, VNC, SSH) into a single interface, making it easier to organize and manage connections. Tabbed interface for keeping multiple sessions organized. Integrates with external credential vaults (e.g. Thycotic Secret Server) and supports dynamic host update for EC2. Supports a wide range of protocols: RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, raw socket, PowerShell remoting.
    Downloads: 139 This Week
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    Rekado

    Rekado

    Payload launcher and serial number checker for Nintendo Switch

    Payload launcher is written in Kotlin for Nintendo Switch. The application doesn't require Root on your device.
    Downloads: 129 This Week
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    Intel RealSense

    Intel RealSense

    Intel® RealSense SDK

    Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 is a cross-platform library for Intel® RealSense™ depth cameras. The SDK allows depth and color streaming and provides intrinsic and extrinsic calibration information. The library also offers synthetic streams (point cloud, depth aligned to color and vise-versa), and built-in support for recording and playback of streaming sessions. Intel has EOLed the LiDAR, Facial Authentication, and Tracking product lines. These products have been discontinued and will no longer be available for new orders. Intel WILL continue to sell and support stereo products including the following: D410, D415, D430, , D401 ,D450 modules and D415, D435, D435i, D435f, D405, D455, D457 depth cameras. We will also continue the work to support and develop our LibRealSense open source SDK.
    Downloads: 124 This Week
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    OpenSSL Project

    OpenSSL Project

    TLS/SSL and crypto library

    OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source Toolkit for the TLS (formerly SSL), DTLS and QUIC (currently client-side only) protocols. The protocol implementations are based on a full-strength general-purpose cryptographic library, which can also be used stand-alone. Also included is a cryptographic module validated to conform with FIPS standards. OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.
    Downloads: 112 This Week
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    nature-skills

    nature-skills

    Skill that conforms to the academic expression and scientific research

    nature-skills is an open-source collection of AI agent skills and structured workflows designed to enhance autonomous reasoning and tool usage in AI assistants. The project organizes reusable “skills” that agents can invoke for different operational contexts, helping AI systems perform specialized tasks more consistently and effectively. It appears to focus on modularity and interoperability, allowing skills to be combined, extended, or integrated into broader agent ecosystems. The repository is designed to support experimentation with multi-step reasoning, task automation, and contextual tool orchestration for agentic AI systems. By standardizing reusable capabilities, the project helps developers build more maintainable and extensible AI workflows. Overall, nature-skills contributes to the growing ecosystem of modular AI agent tooling and structured automation frameworks.
    Downloads: 110 This Week
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    Ammonite

    Ammonite

    Scala Scripting

    Ammonite is a modern Scala REPL and scripting tool designed to give Scala users a more interactive and flexible REPL experience and to free them from heavyweight project boilerplate. It provides syntax‐highlighting, multiline editing, auto‐completion, and dynamic importing of dependencies (using a magic import syntax like import $ivy…). Instead of having to set up an sbt project for many small tasks, one can write Scala scripts (with .sc extension) and run them directly, with Ammonite handling compilation and execution transparently. In the REPL, Ammonite can survive compiler errors (by restarting the compiler internally) and preserve session state, improving resilience compared to the default Scala REPL. It also integrates filesystem utilities and command-line abstractions (via Ammonite-Ops) so that common shell tasks become more Scala-native.
    Downloads: 100 This Week
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    SDL

    SDL

    Simple DirectMedia Layer

    SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia development library designed to provide low-level access to hardware components such as graphics, audio, input devices, and system resources, making it a foundational tool for building games, emulators, and interactive applications. It abstracts platform-specific functionality into a consistent API, allowing developers to write code once and deploy it across multiple operating systems including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. SDL is written in C but is compatible with C++ and has bindings for multiple other programming languages, making it highly flexible for different development environments. The library is not a game engine itself, but rather a hardware abstraction layer that enables developers to build engines or applications on top of it with full control over performance and rendering. It supports modern graphics APIs such as OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D, and Metal.
    Downloads: 92 This Week
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    JFreeChart
    JFreeChart is a free (LGPL) chart library for the Java(tm) platform. It supports bar charts, pie charts, line charts, time series charts, scatter plots, histograms, simple Gantt charts, Pareto charts, bubble plots, dials, thermometers and more. *** JFreeChart has moved to GitHub: https://github.com/jfree/jfreechart ***
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    4.9 out of 5 stars 46 Reviews
    Downloads: 399 This Week
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