CrustyWin Wiki:Bootleg of the Month/April 2023
Windows Mac OS XP (also known as Windows Mac OX Pro XP 2012 (sic)) is a bootleg Windows XP SP3 edition, which was created by the man, the myth, the legend, Fouad Laz himself. It made its debut in 2012, and was added to the archive on November 15, 2021. It is one of the earliest known recorded bootlegs in the archive and the first bootleg ever archived to Crusty Windows. It is a huge source of inspiration (among MANY others, including Windows 7 Assassin's Creed) to start the Crusty Windows project.
The bootleg is a modified Windows XP SP3 ISO. The bootleg primarily focuses on theming the OS to Mac OS X's Aqua user interface, particularly Leopard's style, and including various (pirated) software programs and themes packaged in a self-extracting archive which is on the CD. It is forked from Windows Extreme Seven 2009, another Windows mod, but it is inferior compared to Mac OS XP. It is unattended and preactivated.
As for the tools used behind the scenes, the ISO was made with nLite 1.4.9.1, and the autorun was made with AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0, and the self-extractors were made with a mix of regular 7-Zip, SFXMaker 4.62 and many variations of modified WinRAR self-extractors.