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Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii
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I was just thinking I had almost forgotten how ridiculous and cartoonish OS X looked for awhile
plenty of people run newer macOS on non apple devices everyday, they don't assemble lawyers for that
I suppose you spend all of your free time doing things that aer useful to someone else?
Padaung
macrumors 6502a
No idea how much money the person who did this has, but from the blog post detailing the steps they went through it looks like they did much of this in their spare time (filling time whilst taking a flight, etc) rather than being able to take time off work. I've not read the post in detail, so please correct me if I've got this wrong.
Padaung
macrumors 6502a
He says in his blog post that he leant new skills doing this. So in his case, no different to doing an evening course to improve his abilities. In my opinion, that is time well spent for him.
And you never know, he may well have simply enjoyed the challenge? That in itself is a noble way to spend one's time, isn't it?
routine_analyst
macrumors 65816
Apple seems to treat System Settings (System Preferences, etc.) like a grocery store. Just when you finally figure out where everything is, they completely move things around.
Mike_Trivisonno
macrumors 6502a
Padaung
macrumors 6502a
I start reading this thinking, this would be a fun project and then I see the amount of custom work being done like, make a kernel, and I stop and realize even with an LLM helping I'd be doomed. I love the look of the old MacOS. Not perfect but it stood out and the icons were great.
Hastings101
macrumors 68020
Soooo cool!! Not sure why people are so negative about it, some of us love retro tech and installing stuff where it shouldn't be. Heck some of you would lose your minds over hackintosh probably
Quicksilver867
macrumors 6502
I read the blog post cover to cover. I don't understand about 80%, but it's mightily impressive and a technical feat, particularly considering it was done by an individual.
Would like to browse this site on said Wii
Would like to browse this site on said Wii
G4 Cube had two firewire for external connectivity. You obviously wouldn't want to plug almost anything besides keyboard and mouse into its USB 1.1 ports.
I know right!? It was such an exciting time to be a Mac user. I had heavy exposure to Macs (System 7.5.3) in Florida public schools in the 90s. My school district was one of the first to order the original Bondi blue iMacs in 1998. These experiences planted the seed for me. I eventually moved to Houston, TX, where everything was Compaq or Dell in the schools at that time, and I really missed the Mac experience. After saving my funds, I purchased my first Mac on December 31, 2000. An iMac DV+ running Mac OS 9.0.4. I stuck with that until 10.1.3 (dual booted with 9.2.2). My iMac struggled some with those early versions of OS X, but each release got smoother, faster and more stable. Quite the opposite of what we see today. OS X wasn't really "daily-able" until 10.2, but even then, you probably needed to be more than a novice user. OS X for an advanced user, but 10.3 was the one that really solidified OS X for "mere mortals" (as Steve would say).
Let's not cast the first stone. The same could be said of our own hobbies in the eyes of some people.
If he enjoys himself doing this, and it doesn't adversely affect other people, then why not?
Worse. You had one of those 1.1 ports reserved for the custom Apple Pro speakers the Cube came with. Apple was always stingy with ports and requiring dongles/hubs was almost always a thing since day one.