Brought the Wii to Hawaii to finish the framebuffer driver. Priorities perfectly set.
I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
This solution’s COU cost can be significantly improved by using memory protection. You protect the frame buffer from writes. The first time it is written, you take a fault, and start refreshing every 60 Hz and leave it writeable. After some number of refreshes, you protect it again, the idea being is that the UI may now be quiescent. I do this in my Palm OS port for the same reason.
I'm intrigued by this technique! Will look into it, thanks for the tip!
sample impl is in rePalm sources, but i described basically all there is to it :)
saves a lot of CPU
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I almost think such projects are worth it just to immortalize comments like these. There's a whole psychology of wrongness that centers on declaring that not-quite-impossible things will definitely never happen, because it feels like principled skepticism.
Now tell me your opinion on P==NP being confirmed within 5 years.
P == NP && P !== NPRe: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
#184Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment: There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening. Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics: what hardware is in the Wii, and how does it compare to the hardware used in real Macs from the era. I LOL'd
The "zero percent" guy definitely opened a browser tab to check after the post went live.
Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
#185Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment: There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening. Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics: what hardware is in the Wii, and how does it compare to the hardware used in real Macs from the era. I LOL'd
I almost think such projects are worth it just to immortalize comments like these. There's a whole psychology of wrongness that centers on declaring that not-quite-impossible things will definitely never happen, because it feels like principled skepticism.
Yes, I’ve found at work that the best way to get me off my ass and work furiously is to tell me something isn’t possible
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I almost think such projects are worth it just to immortalize comments like these. There's a whole psychology of wrongness that centers on declaring that not-quite-impossible things will definitely never happen, because it feels like principled skepticism.
I'm remindded of my favorite immortalized comment, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Rob Malda of Slashdot, 2001, dunking on the iPod when it debuted.
So many. The Dropbox comment on HN
Funny enough about the Dropbox comment, it caught so much flak that it’s gone full circle and I’ve often found people defending it saying what the guy said made sense at the time etc
I guess Reddit is just less empathetic than HN
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#187Wonderful. Can it run Doom?
Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
#188As the author of the NetBSD Wii and Wii U ports, congrats! I’m looking forward to seeing how you solved some of the problems that I faced along the way.
Your ports were a huge inspiration - thanks for contributing so much to this space!
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#189If all the AI stories on this site were replaced with amazing stuff like this, the world would be a better place.
I probably have rose colored glasses, but this is what I associate with Hacker News when I first started coming to this site. Truly absurd projects for no reason other than the love of the game and detailed write ups. I'm not an LLM post hater, but it definitely has been a bit draining lately. This is exactly what I love to see here.
yeah - I wish the 'Hacker' part of 'HackerNews' got more attention. Last few years it often feels more like "VC-Buzzword-of-the-day-News" - AI is just the most recent cycle.
Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
#190Amazing work. If you like this story, you might also like the story of how Mac OS X was ported to Intel as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091216
Oof linkrot :((((( I remember reading this back then. Amazing story. All the secrecy, and needing to be a very small team.