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The Wii settings menu is an HTML webpage. Yes, even 2006 games consoles were not spared the web.
Well, Microsoft pioneered with that earlier. Win98, or was it 95b, merged the filesystem Explorer with Internet Explorer and came up with ActiveDesktop.
Kudos to the author for being able to do make real progress in such a hostile (IMHO) environment.
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sample impl is in rePalm sources, but i described basically all there is to it :) saves a lot of CPU
This would work for an idle screen but I can't imagine this would be very efficient for real use, unless the hardware cursor is put in some other framebuffer (I assume it's not otherwise the author would have probably mentioned it?)
But also Wii has the gpu abilities to trivially support hardware cursor
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So when will you port MacOS X to the Wii U? Two more CPU cores and 2GB of RAM instead of 88MB!
That would be a surprisingly cheap way to get a decent "vintage" Mac system considering the cheap resale on WiiUs.
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That stood out to me as well. Specifically: how did he power the Wii?
Many planes have AC power outlets, the Wii uses <20W.
As someone who's been trying to do something VERY similar (port Mac OS 9 to the Nintendo Wii U), all I can say is I'm 1) absolutely impressed, and 2) absolutely encouraged, as my project keeps telling me "this is impossible" at every opportunity.
Are there one or two instructions that aren't available ?
I guess it might be possible to trap and emulate those?
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That would be a surprisingly cheap way to get a decent "vintage" Mac system considering the cheap resale on WiiUs.
Where are you finding cheap WiiUs? I've wanted to pick one up for a while and find them to be exorbitantly expensive, especially the controllers.
There is an attempt to clone the functionality of the gamepad ongoing that's somewhat usable: https://github.com/vanilla-wiiu/vanilla
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.
I considered this! There were a lot of things I wanted to try but didn't want the timeline of this project to blow up any more than it already had. Now that I've done the hard part of writing about it and publishing it, I can revisit some of these ideas :)
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I can't imagine concentrating on a complicated project like that on the go, but I went back to stare in awe at said picture and I think its a train or bus. Still a flex.
Still looks like a plane to me, with rows of 2-3-2 seats. There are definitely no buses that wide.
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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