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by lsy 263 days 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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It's likely that they didn't have the rights to use the original fonts or icons.
And yet they advertise: "Chicago Bitmap Font: Pixel-perfect rendering of the classic Mac font"
It's a bitmap font, so someone took some screenshots and used those. Typefaces can't be copyrighted.