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Legacy projects on GitHub
Legacy BIOS boot support alongside modern UEFI booting.
As of , the most-starred Legacy projects on GitHub are Ventoy (80.1K stars), Apollo-11 (75.3K stars) and MS-DOS (32.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Legacy repositories with 324.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Apollo-11, with +93 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+93Apollo-11
chrislgarry/Apollo-11 · ★ 75.3KThe original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).
+39Ventoy
ventoy/Ventoy · ★ 80.1KVentoy is an open source tool that creates a bootable USB drive which can boot directly from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files without extracting or reformatting them.
+5DOOM
id-Software/DOOM · ★ 19.7KThis is the official 1997 source code release of DOOM, the 1993 first-person shooter by id Software, published for non-profit use with a note from John Carmack.
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#1 · ventoy/VentoyVentoy
Ventoy is an open source tool that creates a bootable USB drive which can boot directly from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files without extracting or reformatting them.
- 75.3K
#2 · chrislgarry/Apollo-11Apollo-11
The original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).
- 32.3K
#3 · microsoft/MS-DOSMS-DOS
The original source code of MS-DOS v1.25, v2.0, and v4.00, published by Microsoft for reference. The v1.25 and v2.0 parts include compiled binaries too, and v4.00 was jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft.
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codemirror5
27.2Kcodemirror/codemirror5 · JavaScriptCodeMirror 5 is an in-browser code editor written in JavaScript, built for editing code with syntax highlighting and a rich API. This repo is the legacy version 5, now archived in favor of CodeMirror 6.
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butterknife
25.3KJakeWharton/butterknife · JavaButter Knife is an Android library that binds views and callbacks to fields and methods, using annotation processing to generate the boilerplate code for you.
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DOOM
19.7Kid-Software/DOOM · C++This is the official 1997 source code release of DOOM, the 1993 first-person shooter by id Software, published for non-profit use with a note from John Carmack.
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jquery-pjax
16.6Kdefunkt/jquery-pjax · JavaScriptA jQuery plugin that uses ajax and pushState to load new pages without a full reload, while keeping real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button.
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q
15Kkriskowal/q · JavaScriptQ is a promise library for JavaScript: a promise is an object standing in for a function's eventual return value or thrown exception, so async code can be written without nested callback pyramids.
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PHPExcel
11.3KPHPOffice/PHPExcel · PHPPHPExcel was a PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files, like Excel documents. It is dead: officially deprecated in 2017 and permanently archived in 2019.
- 10

Respond
11.2Kscottjehl/Respond · JavaScriptA fast, lightweight JavaScript polyfill that brings min/max-width CSS3 media query support to browsers that lack it — chiefly Internet Explorer 8 and under — so responsive web designs work there.
- 11
vue-resource
10Kpagekit/vue-resource · JavaScriptvue-resource is the HTTP client plugin for Vue.js: it adds services for making web requests over XMLHttpRequest or JSONP and handling the responses inside a Vue app.
- 12

dotnet-framework-docker
764microsoft/dotnet-framework-docker · C#This is the official repo providing Dockerfiles for building .NET Framework container images on Windows Server Core, covering the SDK, runtime, ASP.NET, and WCF.
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