I am half serious, and half insane but I was wondering is it possible to run macOS on an Xbox 360 because of its power PC processor.
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Mac OS X on an Xbox 360? Maybe in Linux?
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Short answer: no.
Long answer: while the processor is similar to a G5, out isn’t exactly a G5, Mac OS X won’t have drivers to it or to any of the rest of the hardware, such as the motherboard, the GPU and so on. Also, whatever firmware the Xbox has it won’t be a supported version of Open Firmware. What might be possible is to run it virtualised, for example on Mac-On-Linux, and even that isn’t certain.
Long answer: while the processor is similar to a G5, out isn’t exactly a G5, Mac OS X won’t have drivers to it or to any of the rest of the hardware, such as the motherboard, the GPU and so on. Also, whatever firmware the Xbox has it won’t be a supported version of Open Firmware. What might be possible is to run it virtualised, for example on Mac-On-Linux, and even that isn’t certain.
Similar questions have been asked about the trio of G3s in a Wii, with similar results. Mac OS X doesn't natively run on anything other than a Macintosh, because while the most mass produced one, Apple'e system architecture during the PPC days was nonstandard compared to the broad CHRP standard, though I'm not sure if either console followed it either. Certainly all three are distinct from each other.
Yes, if you write required drivers and patch mach kernel.
Very unlikely without herculean work done. While the 360 cpu is similar to the g5, i'd say it's similar in the same way amd cpus are to intels. They use the same ISA(well sort of, the xcpu of the 360 has some differences), but that's about it. In fact, it has more in common with the PS3's Cell PPE than the G5(which is what the 360's cpu was based on).
Also worth noting the state of linux on the 360 is pitiful at best, and nobody seems too interested to continue the little work done on it in the past decade or so. If linux hardly runs on it, getting osx to run is never going to happen. If i'm not mistaken, the only linux distro for the 360 is ubuntu 10.10, and there's not a whole lot that works on it.
Also worth noting the state of linux on the 360 is pitiful at best, and nobody seems too interested to continue the little work done on it in the past decade or so. If linux hardly runs on it, getting osx to run is never going to happen. If i'm not mistaken, the only linux distro for the 360 is ubuntu 10.10, and there's not a whole lot that works on it.
Short answer: NO
Long Answer: If you are a coding god, you can maybe port the XBox Linux drivers and graft them into the entire system architecture of, say, Leopard. This is assuming XBox Linux exists and the custom drivers can be ported. Elsewise, you are coding it from scratch and good luck with that!
Curious Post Script—I think it might be possible to Hackintosh the original XBox, since it’s a modified P3 system. This is fridge logic and nothing more.
Long Answer: If you are a coding god, you can maybe port the XBox Linux drivers and graft them into the entire system architecture of, say, Leopard. This is assuming XBox Linux exists and the custom drivers can be ported. Elsewise, you are coding it from scratch and good luck with that!
Curious Post Script—I think it might be possible to Hackintosh the original XBox, since it’s a modified P3 system. This is fridge logic and nothing more.
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If MacOnLinux counts it should work as that also works with Pegasos1/2 motherboards which have very little in common with Macs apart from the CPU.
While an original Xbox hackintosh sounds cool. It would be impossible on a stock one because it only has 64 megs of ram
The Pentium III lacks SSE2 instructions.
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True, but I’m almost sure there were patches to workaround this issue in the early Hackintosh days.
That said, my first Mac OS X machine was a G3 with 128MB or ram, Jaguar crawled on it. 64MB is really not viable.
There were patches to circumvent the SSE3 requirement, but none for SSE2 AFAIK.
Jaguar will boot with as little as 32 MB RAM — this might count as cruelty to animals though.
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You might have more luck with a newer x86-based console.
I stand corrected.
Oh, I’m sure it will boot. And then be totally unusable.
You can run windows 7 on an original pentium, but its not gonna be a fun time. Even if the p3 could run osx, it wont be very fast at all.
Xbox One mod anybody? ?You might have more luck with a newer x86-based console.
but seriously will Mac on Linux work for Xbox 360
I wonder which would be easier to get macOS running on, the PS4 with its OS forked from FreeBSD or the XB1 which (sorta) runs Windows.
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