Sick Windows Tricks

[Rhetorica]

Borrowing a subtitle from Nathan Lineback's impeccable "Misc Windows Screenshots" series, this is a thread documenting the ongoing and sometimes disturbing efforts made in recent years to get Windows and Windows NT running on every conceivable piece of hardware:

 - andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA: a new HD audio driver for Windows 98SE and Me
 - Wack0/maciNTosh: bootloader to allow PowerPC Windows NT to run on G3 and G4 Macs
 - Wack0/entii-for-workcubes: because that wasn't dire enough, a port of PowerPC Windows NT to the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii
 - PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: modern generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

Action Retro and Michael MJD briefly covered maciNTosh here and here, respectively, but by far the most accomplished YouTuber in this freak-show space is O(_)mores, who regularly showcases feats like booting Windows 3.1 off NVMe by using SATA mode, and even got Rhapsody DR2 working on an Intel i7 in late 2024 with an impressive array of working devices by carefully choosing hardware based on what chipsets and drivers could be made to meet in the middle. (@ptek, take notes!)

I am sure this dark saga of absolute necromancy will continue...