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WorldPeastoday at 5:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Given that the original Apple TV ran on a modified version of macos, what are the chances one could turn an old wii into an Apple TV..?

EDIT: also, I just noticed on a second pass the system is addressing 78mb of ram, potentially meaning the ram spans the gddr3 and sram, I'm amazed this works as well as it does with seemingly heterogeneous memory


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zydecotoday at 5:17 PM

I'd say there is a zero percent chance of this ever happening :D The original Apple TV was an Intel Core Solo with 256 MB of RAM and an nVidia GPU, running a modified Mac OS X 10.4 that booted into something similar to Front Row instead of Finder.

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CrazyStattoday at 5:30 PM

Apple TV came after the switch to Intel processors, so you would have to have some kind of reverse-Rosetta layer to run it on a PowerPC Wii.

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