Haiku RC 3

[Iggy]

Where can it be downloaded?
I'm an alternate OS junkie.

[Iggy]

Heh, I just hacked two Wii's last week.

What does a hacked Wii do?
Is it limited to running copies of games or can the console run other apps?

[Iggy]

... Full control over your hardware...

FULL control?

So we're not talking the hacks that allow a Wii to use hacked Gamecube software, but allow the use of the Wii's native capabilities?

The main reason I'm asking that is that the latest Wii's don't feature Gamecube compatibility.

And the Wii would make a neat alternate OS platform.

[Iggy]

Are you looking to run an OS on it? I think at the moment there is only Linux, but I've not tried it. As for Gamecube on the new Wii. A work around may be on the way. You can still hack them and do everything else though.

Would be neat to see AROS on it.

Of course I'm thinking of an OS.
I've been fond of Nintendo hardware since ArtX was designing their GPUs (ArtX of course was absorbed by ATI, which kind of explain why Nintendo switched to ATI).
And Nintendo's CPUs are basic PPC cores (unlike the exotic Cell related designs of Sony and Microsoft's consoles).

Of course, what REALLY interests me is the possibility of hacking the Wii U.
Power7 based processor? Since MorphOS won't be ported to hacked consoles, AROS would make this interesting.

BTW - What (besides conforming to the Amiga 3.1 API) prevents AROS from supporting SMP and multi-core processors?

[Iggy]

... provide some built in emulation

BeUAE is available. Pity that no port outside of the PC version uses JIT.
Still, I'm really getting into this OS.
Its impressive.

[Iggy]

haiku-os.org

This version appears to be PC related.
How difficult is it to get this running on a PPC?
How well does it support multiple cores?

Could this be recompiled for Acube or Aeon computers?

[Iggy]

Rather frustratingly, the Haiku team has decided not to make any attempt to support other architectures until they've gotten to a 1.0 release; therefore, the early ports to PPC and other systems have been languishing for quite some time...

That kind of stinks.
With the new e6500 core Qorlq processors and their abundance of cores, this could get really neat.

How is it that there are proposals to  do an ARM port, but not a port to a platform that is more closely associated with BeOS?
After all, other then X86, I can't think of any other BeOS ISA.

[Iggy]

As I understand it, it's not that PPC won't be supported, just that it won't be supported until they've got the OS in what they feel is a fully useable state (though from what I've seen I'd say it's already there.) They did have PPC builds, and there's at least one developer still working on it, it's just not a focus of development and not officially supported ATM.

I certainly hope they support it, I'd love to be able to install it on my Powerbook.

Well, you'll soon be able to run MorphOS on that, but from what I've seen you're not using it on your current hardware.

I'm going to have to try this on a multi-core AMD based system.
Any idea what video cards would work well?
I have an Nvidia 7600GT in an AROS system (unfortubately set up with a single core A64).

[Iggy]

Nerds sitting around on a saturday night talking about hacking their wiis....

Horrible, isn't it?
Actually, I'm sitting here watching "Off Beat Cinema" with my wife and our new puppy (as seen on my avatar).
I'm drinking a beer and feeding the dog cashew nuts, WHILE talking about hacking Wiis.

BTW - Ain't it great how technology enhances nerdery?