blkhp19

Is that allowed? Can you refuse to give a pin when asked?

This should be the highest-rated comment. The guy who posted this video / transcript is wrong about so many things - I'm actually convinced he's being purposely misleading. It's an opinion about SwiftUI backed up by misleading and inaccurate claims.

I started with CLion, and found the UX to be completely foreign (not at all Mac-like) and overall frustrating to use.

Xcode is definitely not perfect, but it's IDE I'm most used to, so I ended up doing my most of my editing in it.

I considered this! There were a lot of things I wanted to try but didn't want the timeline of this project to blow up any more than it already had. Now that I've done the hard part of writing about it and publishing it, I can revisit some of these ideas :)

Thanks! The project was mostly C for the bootloader and C++ for the drivers.

As for which part was the most challenging... probably understanding the IOKit driver model. I really would have benefitted from having an expert explain some of the concepts to me, and give me some advice about how to structure my own drivers.

Your ports were a huge inspiration - thanks for contributing so much to this space!

I'm intrigued by this technique! Will look into it, thanks for the tip!

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.

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.

I was - incredible views indeed!

Very cool! I'd love to learn more. That seems extra challenging considering Mac OS 9 is closed source!

Thank you for the kind words :)

With the extra RAM, higher clock speed, and no need to waste CPU cycles converting YUV -> RGB framenbuffers - I bet it would be!

Images now expand when clicked - thanks for the feedback!

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.