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Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii

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Keller was invested enough in the project that he took the Wii with him on vacation to Hawaii so he could work on it. For those curious about how he solved the myriad problems required to get OS X running on a Wii, his website is worth checking out. Anyone who wants to try setting up OS X on a Wii can get the project source code on GitHub.
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Hmmmmmm he got old macOS to work on non-Apple device……….. 🤔

APPLE LAWYER TEAM ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!! 🧑‍💼👨🏽‍💼👩‍💼🕴️
 
I bad for all the people dumping on this. Sure it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s no different than spending time on any other type of puzzle. Some people like to challenge themselves, tinker, and test what can be done and whether they’re able to do it.

Whether it’s due to jealousy, a difference of opinion about what’s fun, or something else, I don’t understand what people have against others doing what they enjoy when they’re able.
 
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ThomasJL said:
Good job, Bryan Keller! And thank you for helping keep skeuomorphism alive.

It’s nice to see someone appreciating the skeuomorphism in the UI design of Scott Forstall. It’s too bad that Tim Cook is too clueless and mediocre to appreciate that.
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In all honesty I do rather enjoy the early skeumorphic designs of iOS. Do I miss them? Sometimes sure but the only way they'd come back to iOS/MacOS X/iPadOS is if Jobs & Forstall were to come back to Apple.

One isn't happening for obvious reasons and the other seems content producing Broadway shows & plays.
 
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icerabbit said:
Whenever I use one of our G4 Cubes or my older Mac mini jukebox running 10.6.8 ... it really tugs at heart strings how things were simpler, colorful, immediately identifiable and straightforward.

Years into whatever trend, we're still stuck with narrower fonts, grey on grey on grey, monochrome ... then a major shift to " Liquid Glass " ... ugh.
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Only people here in this forum can feel the nostalgia
 
I always thought the Wii had a G4.
skiguy45 said:
oh and based on the view outside dude's window ... he needs prioritize going outside, not putting an out of date OS on an out of date game console.
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Maybe he’s like Richard Ayoade and has no desire to go outside?
 
alchemistmuffin said:
Hmmmmmm he got old macOS to work on non-Apple device……….. 🤔

APPLE LAWYER TEAM ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!! 🧑‍💼👨🏽‍💼👩‍💼🕴️
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Back when OSX for Intel first arrived I had it running on a Celeron NetBook rather well (I had swapped in an SSD). But I was able to use off the shelf patches as I have no idea how to customize code.
 
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TheDailyApple said:
I bad for all the people dumping on this. Sure it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s no different than spending time on any other type of puzzle. Some people like to challenge themselves, tinker, and test what can be done and whether they’re able to do it.

Whether it’s due to jealousy, a difference of opinion about what’s fun, or something else, I don’t understand what people have against others doing what they enjoy when they’re able.
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Look, it’s cool, but the sheer amount of coding he had to do seems like it could have been time better spent doing something useful to someone.

Then again, now he is world famous as the guy who ran OSX on a Wii. All over the world, in all sorts of languages, people are asking themselves “why did this guy do this?”
 
All I want it know is, why Cheetah? Literally the worst version of Mac OS X. I think even the Public Beta was better.

Getting Leopard to run would have probably been just as easy (ok, hard), and the only real reason it didn't support G3 Macs was speed.
 
DHagan4755 said:
Many people have no idea how revolutionary that interface was back then.
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Pun (bolded for emphasis) intended? I kind of doubt it, but it jumped out at me (the Wii's codename during development was Revolution).

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Anyways, my understanding is the Wii is little more than a souped up Game Cube with some special accessories (the sensor bar and Wiimote) packed in.

So... lets see them get Mac OS X running on a GameCube next! (The codename for the GameCube during its development was Dolphin, fyi... just tying back to where my post started...)
 
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