LisaSourceCompilation

All the info needed to compile the Apple Lisa's operating system (LOS) from source!

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All the info needed to compile the Apple Lisa's operating system (LOS) from source!

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May 4	2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC	2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
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Jul 6	2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC	2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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Rochus·Jul 8, 2026

That's a really cool project. Alex already managed to compile the Lisa sources published by the CHM in 2025 using the original Lisa tools run on Ray Arachelian's emulator (see https://github.com/alexthecat123/LisaSourceCompilation).

In LisaFPGA: The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA

ndiddy·May 4, 2026

The same person who did this project also worked out how to compile the Lisa Office System code Apple released: https://github.com/alexthecat123/LisaSourceCompilation This took a lot of work because Apple didn't release any of the tooling required to build the code, and the code was actually too big to fit on a stock Lisa hard drive (the hard drive is 10 MB, the code is ~20 MB) so they had to hack the OS to patch in support for higher capacity drives. It’s neat that there’s such passionate Lisa fans out there. If anyone here is a current day Lisa enthusiast, I’m curious what makes you interested in it.

In I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]