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  • Mac OS X 10.3 on a hackintoshed Wii U

    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Fri Apr 10 19:57:18 2026
    So, apparently, it's possible to turn a Nintendo Wii U into a hackintosh and install Mac OS X 10.3 on it:

    https://tinyurl.com/38wk5vt2

    Full URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1shatca/mac_os_x_103_on_a_hackinto shed_wii_u/

    Nightfox
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  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to Nightfox on Sat Apr 11 16:46:20 2026
    So, apparently, it's possible to turn a Nintendo Wii U into a hackintosh and install Mac OS X 10.3 on it:

    Windows NT for PowerPC as well!

    There are some ludicrously smart cookies out there.
    Cheers,
    RetroSwim

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Retroswim on Sat Apr 11 21:02:47 2026
    Re: Mac OS X 10.3 on a hackintoshed Wii U
    By: Retroswim to Nightfox on Sat Apr 11 2026 04:46 pm

    So, apparently, it's possible to turn a Nintendo Wii U into a hackintosh
    and install Mac OS X 10.3 on it:

    Windows NT for PowerPC as well!

    That's cool. :)

    Nightfox
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 13 08:58:55 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Retroswim <=-

    Windows NT for PowerPC as well!

    That's cool. :)

    A friend of mine, last time I checked, was still running IIS on a Dec
    Alpha PC running Windows NT.



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  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to All on Mon Apr 13 13:42:11 2026
    Re: Mac OS X 10.3 on a hackintoshed Wii U
    By: Nightfox to Retroswim on Sat Apr 11 2026 21:02:47

    So, apparently, it's possible to turn a Nintendo Wii U into a
    hackintosh...

    Windows NT for PowerPC as well!

    How is that done? The Wii was not designed to be used in that way. I've heard similar things done with other consoles.
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Mortar M. on Mon Apr 13 14:39:10 2026
    Re: Mac OS X 10.3 on a hackintoshed Wii U
    By: Mortar M. to All on Mon Apr 13 2026 01:42 pm

    Windows NT for PowerPC as well!

    How is that done? The Wii was not designed to be used in that way. I've heard similar things done with other consoles.

    A Nintendo Wii can be hacked to allow you to do more things with it than Nintendo originally intended. I did that with my Wii several years ago to allow things like installing emulators and other 3rd-party apps (through a different channel) and playing ISOs of Wii games from a hard drive rather than from optical disc. I imagine someone figured out a way to hack a Nintendo Wii to have it boot into another operating system, probably installed on another drive. The Wii has a variant of a PowerPC 750 processor, so it could potentially run operating systems built for PowerPC.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 07:41:26 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Mortar M. <=-

    A Nintendo Wii can be hacked to allow you to do more things with it
    than Nintendo originally intended. I did that with my Wii several
    years ago to allow things like installing emulators and other 3rd-party apps (through a different channel) and playing ISOs of Wii games from a hard drive rather than from optical disc.

    And DooM.


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