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lsy | 5 months ago

Impressive that this was done in 3 days at all, but to anyone who is familiar at all with System 7's appearance, the screenshot is almost comically "off" and gives away that this is not a straight port so much as some kind of clean-room reimplementation. The attached paper is more reserved, calling this a "bootable prototype".

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wmil|5 months ago

It's likely that they didn't have the rights to use the original fonts or icons.

reverius42|5 months ago

And yet they advertise: "Chicago Bitmap Font: Pixel-perfect rendering of the classic Mac font"