Recomp / Preservation & revivals / Windows / Mac
CMaNGOS
Continued MaNGOS server emulator focused on accurate World of Warcraft Classic-era gameplay.
Clean-room Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- World of Warcraft (Classic era) servers (2004)
- Platform
- Windows / Mac
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Continuation of MaNGOS (2005) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- cmangos
- Started
- 2005
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of World of Warcraft (Classic era) servers you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by cmangos. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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