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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii (virtuallyfun.com)
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(This is a guest post by Rairii)

So today I reached a nice milestone in one of my projects: my work porting classic Mac OS to PowerPC systems with what I affectionately call ArtX chipsets (Nintendo GameCube, Wii, eventually Wii U; the GameCube’s Flipper integrated chipset was very much designed by ArtX as it was effectively finished when ATI acquired the company, and the Wii’s Vegas (and its later revision Bollywood) and Wii U’s Latte are effectively straight successors) reached the desktop for the first time, most likely the first time since the CHRP clone era that someone outside of Apple brought up classic Mac OS on a new system to the desktop. Despite still being nowhere near ready for a public release, I want to talk about the challenges I faced with this project so far.

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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cool. I just thrifted an iMac G5 the other day, excited about its PowerPC architecture, and I while I was driving back, I was wondering if the Wii U was the most powerful PowerPC computer.

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    [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Putting Mac on the wii?

    Its not something I would have ever considered, but a very cool project. Its wild to see homebrew channel launching into an apple desktop.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I remember thinking "this could be possible" ten years ago when I realized that The GameCube, Wii, and Wii U were all running what was effectively a G3 processor.

    Definitely happy to see that it's since come to fruition. 😄

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