Recomp / OS & system / Macintosh
Advanced Mac Substitute
Reimplementation of the 68K Mac OS Toolbox that runs classic Mac applications without Apple's ROM or system software.
Clean-room Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Classic Mac OS (68K Toolbox) (1984)
- Platform
- Macintosh
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · By Josh Juran (jjuran) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- none
- Team
- jjuran
- Runs on
- macOS, Linux
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository or website. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by jjuran. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
Sources
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