I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Posted by blkhp19 8 hours ago

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii(bryankeller.github.io)

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MaxLeiter 8 hours ago|

Great write-up. I love hardware running software it shouldn’t support

swiftcoder 8 hours ago||

Damn, that's some dedication! Congrats on getting it running

WorldPeas 7 hours ago||

Given that the original Apple TV ran on a modified version of macos, what are the chances one could turn an old wii into an Apple TV..?

EDIT: also, I just noticed on a second pass the system is addressing 78mb of ram, potentially meaning the ram spans the gddr3 and sram, I'm amazed this works as well as it does with seemingly heterogeneous memory

zydeco 7 hours ago||

I'd say there is a zero percent chance of this ever happening :D The original Apple TV was an Intel Core Solo with 256 MB of RAM and an nVidia GPU, running a modified Mac OS X 10.4 that booted into something similar to Front Row instead of Finder.

WorldPeas 6 hours ago|||

Oh interesting, it looks like that geforce had an entire 64mb of gddr3 too, it'd still be fun to see if one could limbo that low, though I agree that save for upgrading the BGA ddr3 of the wii to something more the size of the dev kit had(128mb GDDR3)

CrazyStat 6 hours ago||

Apple TV came after the switch to Intel processors, so you would have to have some kind of reverse-Rosetta layer to run it on a PowerPC Wii.

zadikian 6 hours ago||

Tiger had a native PPC version too

zdware 7 hours ago||

Fun post.

Always great when your debugging feedback is via a led xD

dpedu 5 hours ago|

How about a piezoelectric buzzer? That's how the firmware on some iPods were first dumped.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050828114013/http://www.ipodli...

bottlepalm 7 hours ago||

And here I am shopping for Macs because getting a hackintosh working from a VM on Windows is too difficult for me.

khernandezrt 4 hours ago||

Unrelated to the article but please compress your images. Why is one of them almost 8mb!?

vsgherzi 7 hours ago||

This is some amazing work, a good reminder to dig more into operating systems for myself!

delduca 4 hours ago||

The best hack of the last 10 years.

mghackerlady 8 hours ago||

I'm pretty sure someones done this for the 360. Also, doesn't NT have a wii port?

nticompass 8 hours ago|

There was a PPC version of Windows NT, and yes someone put it on the Wii!

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

zymhan 6 hours ago||

That was it, I knew someone ported an OS to a Wii recently, thank you

oliad1 6 hours ago|

Nice project! Love seeing emulators & ports

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