Hacker News: blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blkhp19Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:43:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Your ports were a huge inspiration - thanks for contributing so much to this space!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:13:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696364blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696364<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>I'm intrigued by this technique! Will look into it, thanks for the tip!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:57:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695488blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695488https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695488<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Last I checked, the 60fps frame buffer conversion resulted in the system idling at 18% CPU. Certainly not ideal. I'd love to optimize this further.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:57:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695480blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695480<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Yes - this project (and countless others) would not have been possible without the incredible work to hack the Wii from Team Twiizers (now fail0verflow) back in the day. The work they did was a huge inspiration for me getting into computer science when I was a teenager.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:35:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695180blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695180https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695180<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>I was - incredible views indeed!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:57:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694656blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694656https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694656<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Very cool! I'd love to learn more. That seems extra challenging considering Mac OS 9 is closed source!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:56:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694639blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694639<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Thank you for the kind words :)

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:54:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694614blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694614https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694614<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>With the extra RAM, higher clock speed, and no need to waste CPU cycles converting YUV -> RGB framenbuffers - I bet it would be!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:14:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694104blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694104<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Images now expand when clicked - thanks for the feedback!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:54:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693823blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693823https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693823<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>I felt similarly. The learning curve was a tad steep, especially since I had never written a driver before, but once I figured out how to structure things and saw the system come alive, I grew to appreciate the approach IOKit takes.

With that said, I haven't developed drivers for any other platforms, so I really can't say if the abstraction is good compared to what's used by modern systems.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:40:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693617blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693617https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693617<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>My Wii has been on many planes and trains - and yes, there is a photo of each in my post.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:31:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693490blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693490https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693490<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>> Looking for private API behavior or working around bugs?

Exactly this!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:20:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693326blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693326https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693326<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a very tiny part of my motivation :)

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:11:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693156blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693156<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>I used plenty of non-agentic AI to help understand the XNU codebase, and also research various topics. It wasn't always correct, but it certainly helped at times! My philosophy for this project was to use it as a learning tool - since that was kind of the whole point of me attempting this :)

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692978blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692978https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692978<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>There are bugs and undocumented behaviors that need to be understood in order to be worked around - I wish it wasn't the case but such is life developing for closed-source platforms.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:55:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692887blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692887https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692887<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>I only tested on Safari - whoops! Fixed now.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692639blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692639<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Whoops, thanks! Fixed.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:39:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692630blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692630<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"]]>Thank you for the kind words!

I like using it for disassembling UIKit (for my day job working on iOS apps), and overall, I like the UI/UX and how it feels like a native Mac app.

I've tried Ghidra, and while extremely impressive and capable, it might be the most Java-feeling app I've ever used. I'd love for someone to whip up an AppKit + SwiftUI shell for it.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:22:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692362blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692362https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692362<![CDATA[I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii]]>Article URL: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

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]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:40:00 +0000https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.htmlblkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730<![CDATA[New comment by blkhp19 in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"]]>I thought they rolled back all of those efforts. What devices shipping today come with Fuchsia installed?

]]>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:49:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45067239blkhp19https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45067239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45067239