Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
by jmcneill on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @04:43PM
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As the author of the NetBSD Wii and Wii U ports, congrats! I’m looking forward to seeing how you solved some of the problems that I faced along the way.
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Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
by blkhp19 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:13PM
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Your ports were a huge inspiration - thanks for contributing so much to this space!
So when will you port MacOS X to the Wii U? Two more CPU cores and 2GB of RAM instead of 88MB!
Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
by HerbManic on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:46AM
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That would be a surprisingly cheap way to get a decent "vintage" Mac system considering the cheap resale on WiiUs.
Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
by itintheory on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:23PM
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Where are you finding cheap WiiUs? I've wanted to pick one up for a while and find them to be exorbitantly expensive, especially the controllers.
Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
by extraduder_ire on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:41PM
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The gamepads often cost more than the console itself, because they're region locked and you can't use the console without one.
There is an attempt to clone the functionality of the gamepad ongoing that's somewhat usable: https://github.com/vanilla-wiiu/vanilla
Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
by SpecialistK on Thursday April 09, 2026 @04:43PM
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I saw console-only Wii Us in Book Off in Japan for ~US$30.
Many thanks for all the code! The second hand market is currently flooded with Wii U hardware that is cheap enough to buy enough stock to last a life time for peanuts. Would be amazing fun for PowerPC development and if I had an alternative timeline where I went into low-level programming, I would love to push for OpenBSD support inspired by your work.