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I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by blkhp19 »

hirvi74 wrote: post #5

Exceptional work. While it may not mean much, I am truly impressed. I like to toy with reverse engineering here and there, but such a port like this would take me multiple lifetimes. Not to distract too much from the main topic, but what do you think about the Hopper disassembler? I have only used Radare2, IDA Pro, and Ghidra. Though, I haven't used the latter two on MacOS. What do you prefer about Hopper? I have bee…

Thank you for the kind words!

I like using it for disassembling UIKit (for my day job working on iOS apps), and overall, I like the UI/UX and how it feels like a native Mac app.

I've tried Ghidra, and while extremely impressive and capable, it might be the most Java-feeling app I've ever used. I'd love for someone to whip up an AppKit + SwiftUI shell for it.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by rvz »

The post is a work of an actual hacker who knows what they're doing. Zero mention of "I used Claude" or "Used AI" to understand what is needed for accomplish this task.

This is exceptional work. Unlike the low-effort slop posts I see here on "Show HN".

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by stavros »

This is excellent, though if you had chosen another OS, you could have called the project Wiindows.

EDIT: Oh interesting, the final paragraph says NT has been ported, didn't know that. Sadly, no pun is mentioned in that project.

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