Mac OS X was ported to Nintendo Wii

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Developer Bryan Keller has single-handedly ported Mac OS X 10.0 to the Wii platform. It’s a great writeup that can serve as a good source of inspiration for developers working on other ports.

How it started:

Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment:

There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening.

Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics: what hardware is in the Wii, and how does it compare to the hardware used in real Macs from the era.

How it went:

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Neat. The article doesn’t seem to actually link to the project itself, but as far as I can tell it’s this.

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Yes, that’s the correct link. It’s at the top of the article :wink:

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So it is. I suppose I must have had information overload and not seen it (“bootloader repository” doesn’t exactly jump out).