Exploiting that fact that the Wii has a PowerPC 750 series CPU, and that the PowerPC G3 was just a rebranded IBM PowerPC 750 series CPU. This requires jail breaking the Wii, then loading Mac OS...
Exploiting that fact that the Wii has a PowerPC 750 series CPU, and that the PowerPC G3 was just a rebranded IBM PowerPC 750 series CPU. This requires jail breaking the Wii, then loading Mac OS 10.0.4 (Build 4Q12) Cheetah onto his Wii using a Micro SD card. A bit under 15 minutes of just fun geeking out with old Mac stuff on a Wii.
I watched this earlier today. It's strange that I was so amazed that this port happened that I didn't even consider that none of the device drivers would work - no accellerated graphics, no sound,...
I watched this earlier today.
It's strange that I was so amazed that this port happened that I didn't even consider that none of the device drivers would work - no accellerated graphics, no sound, and no networking either. Too bad or it would have been an incredible "fantasy Mac Mini".
I guess drivers could be written if someone wanted to take the time, but it could be a real headache. It looks like there were four different revisions of the main Wii model that could be jail...
I guess drivers could be written if someone wanted to take the time, but it could be a real headache.
It looks like there were four different revisions of the main Wii model that could be jail broken, RVL-CPU-01, RVL-CPU-10, RVL-CPU-20, RVL-CPU-30, and all subsequent ones were based off of RVL-CPU-40 which locked down the ability to install MiiBoot, which enabled this kind of experiment. Then there was RVL-101, Wii Family Edition, which is moddable as well.
But it's hard to say how many different hardware vendors they might have sourced from for the various internal components like the disc drive and speakers and USB and whatnot since they specifically made the Wii with commercially available components, and that usually means that each batch is a little unique from one run to the next because components have to be sourced from different vendors due to the usual supply chain issues. Price hikes, loss of inventory availability, vendors going out of business or pivoting are all super common.
I do like the concept of a "Fantasy Mac Mini" though.
Exploiting that fact that the Wii has a PowerPC 750 series CPU, and that the PowerPC G3 was just a rebranded IBM PowerPC 750 series CPU. This requires jail breaking the Wii, then loading Mac OS 10.0.4 (Build 4Q12) Cheetah onto his Wii using a Micro SD card. A bit under 15 minutes of just fun geeking out with old Mac stuff on a Wii.
I watched this earlier today.
It's strange that I was so amazed that this port happened that I didn't even consider that none of the device drivers would work - no accellerated graphics, no sound, and no networking either. Too bad or it would have been an incredible "fantasy Mac Mini".
I guess drivers could be written if someone wanted to take the time, but it could be a real headache.
It looks like there were four different revisions of the main Wii model that could be jail broken, RVL-CPU-01, RVL-CPU-10, RVL-CPU-20, RVL-CPU-30, and all subsequent ones were based off of RVL-CPU-40 which locked down the ability to install MiiBoot, which enabled this kind of experiment. Then there was RVL-101, Wii Family Edition, which is moddable as well.
But it's hard to say how many different hardware vendors they might have sourced from for the various internal components like the disc drive and speakers and USB and whatnot since they specifically made the Wii with commercially available components, and that usually means that each batch is a little unique from one run to the next because components have to be sourced from different vendors due to the usual supply chain issues. Price hikes, loss of inventory availability, vendors going out of business or pivoting are all super common.
I do like the concept of a "Fantasy Mac Mini" though.