Recomp / OS & system / Macintosh
Executor
Classic Mac emulator that ran 68k Mac applications by reimplementing the Macintosh Toolbox instead of using Apple ROMs.
Clean-room Human-led archivedFacts
- Original
- Classic Mac OS Toolbox (1984)
- Platform
- Macintosh
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · ARDI commercial product from the 1990s, later open-sourced by Clifford T. Matthews what this means
- Status
- archived
- Licence
- MIT
- Team
- ctm, ARDI
- Started
- 1990
- Runs on
- 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 Classic Mac OS Toolbox you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by ctm, ARDI. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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