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Retro Gaming · by Nusrat Akter · 2026-10-30

Someone got classic Mac OS booting to the desktop on a Nintendo Wii

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Rairii, who already ported Windows NT to the GameCube and Wii, has now brought classic Mac OS up to the desktop on the Wii's PowerPC hardware, probably the first time anyone outside Apple has done that since the CHRP clone era. The write-up goes into the ArtX chipset lineage from Flipper to Hollywood/Latte and all the hacks needed to make a 1990s OS believe it's on a Mac. What's the strangest OS-on-console port you've seen, and would you actually run one?

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Amina Okafor · 3 likes

waiting for someone to get HyperCard running and make a Wii remote stack

Camille Dubois · 0 likes

the wii being a powermac in disguise is the kind of nonsense I live for

Isha Menon · 0 likes

Linux on the PS2 with the official kit was my first. slow as hell but it felt like hacking the future

Silver Panda · 1 likes

I still have the hdd + network adapter for that, never throwing it away