Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

[wmlive]

Quoting the introduction: »In this post, I'll share how I ported the first version of Mac OS X, 10.0 Cheetah, to the Nintendo Wii. If you're not an operating systems expert or low-level engineer, you're in good company; this project was all about learning and navigating countless "unknown unknowns". Join me as we explore the Wii's hardware, bootloader development, kernel patching, and writing drivers - and give the PowerPC versions of Mac OS X a new life on the Nintendo Wii.«

Full write-up of the developer's amazing endeavour: bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
Accompanying Hacker News thread with some commentary referring to NeXTSTEP: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

The amazing part is that this guy went so far as to write new Mac OS X drivers (SD card, framebuffer, etc.) required to operate the Nintendo Wii.

Having managed to install and run OPENSTEP on a Frankenpad T61, albeit without network access, I'd wish someone similarily capable would create some network and PCMCIA drivers for the T6x Thinkpad generation to enable full use of its hardware capabilities.

[jeffburg]

This was an amazing post!! The drama in the story telling was excellent! Also, I think it showed how powerful DriverKit from NextStep (later reimplemented as C++ as IOKit for Mac OS X) truly was. This guy made a computer with no PCI bus at all, read data from the built in SD Card and got the video card working in a seemingly small amount of code. Pretty incredible!