Mac OS X Cheetah is now running on the Nintendo Wii
Mac OS X Cheetah meets Nintendo Wii – how I wish they’d rebrand Siri as Super Siri with a Mario voice and power-ups 🤪🤪
He got Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah running natively on a Nintendo Wii by building a bootloader, patching the kernel, and writing drivers. A “zero percent chance” became a wild PowerPC comeback you can actually try yourself.
Summary
Bryan Keller describes how he ported Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to run natively on the Nintendo Wii. The article covers assessing hardware and software compatibility, then building a custom bootloader, patching the XNU kernel, and writing drivers for key Wii components such as storage, video, USB, and debugging. It presents the project as a learning-focused exploration of low-level systems work and provides a repository for trying it yourself.
