Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii

A maverick hacker got Mac OS X running on a Wii

You may already know that emulators can run Wii games on a Mac. But one developer has flipped the script. Bryan Keller now has an ancient version of the Mac's operating system running on Nintendo's 2006 game console (via Kottke). Why? Because they said it couldn't be done.The developer first had the idea in 2013 while a sophomore in college. However, they found renewed motivation five years ago when Redditor u/CussdomTidder posted, "There is a z…

Mac OS X ported to the Nintendo Wii

The Macintosh's operating system has been ported to the Nintendo Wii, defying those who said it could not be done. Granted, it's the original release of Mac OS X, itself older than the 2006 console, but the hardware constraints (Only 88MB of RAM!) — Read the rest The post Mac OS X ported to the Nintendo Wii appeared first on Boing Boing.

Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii

Developer Bryan Keller was curious whether an old version of Apple's Mac operating system was capable of running on the Nintendo Wii after seeing Windows NT...

Nintendo Wii can run Mac OS X like it's 2001 all over again

Over 101 million Nintendo Wii consoles have been sold since 2006, but only one of them runs Apple's Mac OS X Cheetah. Here's how it works.There aren't many Wiis running Mac OS X in the worldThat Wii is owned by developer Bryan Keller after he took considerable time to port Apple's 2001 software. We've seen Wiis running everything from Linux to Windows NT before, but this is the first we've ever seen running a flavor of macOS.Understandably, the …

A brave soul has managed to port Mac OS X to the Wii.

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