Recomp / OS & system / Macintosh
System7
Experimental bootable reimplementation of classic Mac OS System 7 for x86 PCs, documented through reverse-engineering notes.
Clean-room AI-assisted wipFacts
- Original
- Apple Macintosh System 7 (1991)
- Platform
- Macintosh
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- AI-assisted · README says it began as an AI-assisted reverse-engineering research project and ships CLAUDE.md what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- MIT
- Team
- Kelsidavis
- Started
- 2025-09
- First release
- 2025-12
- Runs on
- x86 (GRUB2/Multiboot2), QEMU
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by Kelsidavis. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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