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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 dfxm12 »

nancyminusone wrote: post #35
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

Gotta love that particular Redditors follow up comment: >Go ahead and downvote me. I am correct on every single thing I said

The comment score is 1. It doesn't even have a controversial flag. The gamification of social media is a mistake.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by badc0ffee »

pa7ch wrote: post #49
guyzero wrote: post #17

In addition to the incredible engineering work here the OP casually flexes by showing the development happening _in an economy class airplane seat_.

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.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by varispeed »

guyzero wrote: post #17

In addition to the incredible engineering work here the OP casually flexes by showing the development happening _in an economy class airplane seat_.

Imagine if he was developing it on a laptop found at a refuse site that was still charged, just hiding in the hedge so that guards wouldn't see him.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by noman-land »

dpoloncsak wrote: post #39
nancyminusone wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta love that particular Redditors follow up comment: >Go ahead and downvote me. I am correct on every single thing I said

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.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by badc0ffee »

slackfan wrote: post #50
guyzero wrote: post #17

In addition to the incredible engineering work here the OP casually flexes by showing the development happening _in an economy class airplane seat_.

What's flex-worthy about this? There's a lot of dev work that goes on in economy class airplane seats. Or are VC valley programmers so rich they fly business everywhere?

It's uncomfortable and awkward (the Wii was on his leg in the first shot), and often you need to break concentration and pack things up to let someone out of or into their seat.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by [deleted] »

zydeco wrote: post #58
WorldPeas wrote: post #53

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

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.

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Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by CrazyStat »

WorldPeas wrote: post #53

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

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.

Re: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

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Post by blkhp19 »

badc0ffee wrote: post #62
pa7ch wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My Wii has been on many planes and trains - and yes, there is a photo of each in my post.
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