Hacker boots classic Mac OS on a Nintendo Wii
My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
Rairii has ported classic Mac OS to the Nintendo Wii, GameCube, and eventually Wii U, reaching the desktop for the first time. The project involved porting OpenBIOS, patching the Trampoline bootloader, and writing drivers for the ArtX chipsets. Despite being far from a public release, it marks the first time someone outside Apple has brought classic Mac OS to a new system since the CHRP clone era.
This got me acquainted with the classic Mac OS, and I fell in love with the jank as it were (hacks upon hacks upon hacks going back to the 1980s is something I’d definitely describe as “jank”).
- unfocused
Interesting timing. Nintendo just shutdown Mariokart Tour on mobile. I went back to my Nintendo Wii which was already modded, and updated it to the latest modded hacks and I was amazed to see more software, stability, and even online gaming brought back!
Hopefully their port of Mac OS gets put in the Open Shop Channel!
Open Shop Channel: https://oscwii.org
WiiLink for online gaming: https://wiilink.ca
- stasomatic
If I can play Specter or Shuffle board air hokey, the BW boulder dash clone, Marathon, I'm game. Can I? You just cost me some, now a search for a Mac classic. The emulators don't do it for me.
- VladVladikoff
Is it possible to go the other way? Make a PowerMac into a Nintendo Wii?
- deadnomore
> This got me acquainted with the classic Mac OS,
> and I fell in love with the jank as it were (hacks
> upon hacks upon hacks going back to the 1980s is
> something I’d definitely describe as “jank”).
Modern macOS still has classic Mac OS code in it dating as far back, and has added Objective C and Swift abstractions on top.
- mmackh
this reminds me of how the original xbox 360 dev kits were actually just powermac G5s. the mid-2000s were a wild time for cross-platform hardware.