My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

Interesting timing. Nintendo just shutdown Mariokart Tour on mobile. I went back to my Nintendo Wii which was already modded, and updated it to the latest modded hacks and I was amazed to see more software, stability, and even online gaming brought back!

Hopefully their port of Mac OS gets put in the Open Shop Channel!

Open Shop Channel: https://oscwii.org WiiLink for online gaming: https://wiilink.ca

Same guy who made NT for Macintosh https://github.com/Wack0/Macintosh and GC/Wii https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes if you're unaware.

Is it possible to go the other way? Make a PowerMac into a Nintendo Wii?

Wii turns 20 on 19th November 2026.

> This got me acquainted with the classic Mac OS,

> and I fell in love with the jank as it were (hacks

> upon hacks upon hacks going back to the 1980s is

> something I’d definitely describe as “jank”).

Modern macOS still has classic Mac OS code in it dating as far back, and has added Objective C and Swift abstractions on top.

If I can play Specter or Shuffle board air hokey, the BW boulder dash clone, Marathon, I'm game. Can I? You just cost me some, now a search for a Mac classic. The emulators don't do it for me.

this reminds me of how the original xbox 360 dev kits were actually just powermac G5s. the mid-2000s were a wild time for cross-platform hardware.

oh geez.. I was not thinking about it, but if this piece of hardware runs PowerPC Mac.. then Amiga OS 4.x or MorphOS and Amiga baby... PowerMac is for sissies when you compare this opportunity!

Nintendo Wii have made for neat zero knowledge Nostr relays, mesh-net (CJDNS) routers, and other makeshift "underground" infrastructure.

USB hubs, USB SATA adapters and USB Ethernet interfaces for the win.

For me, the finest PowerMac is the one that explored Mars: https://vechai.org/mars-rover-perseverance-runs-on-a-1998-im...

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