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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 bfirsh »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #24

Before 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 got the idea of writing an emulator in JavaScript in the pre-Chrome era, circa 2007. I remember searching around trying to find whether somebody had done it before. It seemed not, and somebody on a forum declared “that’s not possible”.

To me, it was obviously possible, and I was determined to prove them wrong.

Anyway, this now exists because of that: https://github.com/bfirsh/jsnes

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by Tepix »

nickpeterson wrote: post #78

The one that really bugs me is the Apple TV. It would be a great little box to use for terminals/thin client style work and there are a ton of old cheap ones. Having a $50 dollar used box that was low power and could run OSX would be great.

Aren't those Android boxes that you can get for less than $30 and then flash Linux (Armbian etc) onto a much better option?

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by Tepix »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #253
nickpeterson wrote: post #78

The one that really bugs me is the Apple TV. It would be a great little box to use for terminals/thin client style work and there are a ton of old cheap ones. Having a $50 dollar used box that was low power and could run OSX would be great.

Hell Apple’s latest monitors have an A19 Pro chip in them which are more powerful than the MacBook Neo.

They're more than $50 however.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by stuaxo »

Great work and writeup.

I wonder if the YUV conversion could be offloaded somehow to the ARM inside the Hollywood or somehow using a shader (or equivalent) if the graphics were accelerated - though maybe this is way way too much.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by lossyalgo »

noman-land wrote: post #65
dpoloncsak wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tempted to necro a 5 year old reddit post just to tell that guy he was wrong, honestly

Make a new thread calling them out personally.

Post a link so we can upvote for visibility :)

Nevermind, wasn't hard to find: https://www.reddit.com/r/wii/comments/1sfzacl/porting_mac_os...

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by cyrialize »

dansalvato wrote: post #146
cyrialize wrote: post #139

The Wii is very moddable. I've modded my Wii in the past just for playing modded versions of Super Smash Brother Melee (mainly training packs, like flashing a red light when I miss an L-cancel).

I wrote that L-cancel training code! Funny to see it come up out of nowhere. I too have always adored the Wii and its moddability. It'd be my go-to choice if I someday ever get the itch to write console homebrew software of my own.

Oh hi! I'm a huge fan of your work! I've watched so many videos breaking down Doki Doki Literature Club.

Thank you for all that you do.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

jaen wrote: post #290
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish this meme would die. Every modern operating system - macOS, Linux and Windows - use available memory for certain performance optimizations. It doesn’t mean when needed, that memory isn’t available for other applications and your computer just starts swapping.

I wish the "optimizations" meme would die as well, read my comment upthread on how that's generally inaccurate.

I can 100% guarantee you that if you have a computer with 8GB RAM, the computer wouldn’t start swapping if you brought up a new process that needed 4 of those 8GB even though it says the operating system is using “8GB RAM”
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