Apple no longer officially supports the use of the macOS operating system on non-Apple hardware. This created the Hackintosh community that hacks macOS on regular PC hardware. But now it has entered the WiiKintosh era after Mac OS X 10.0 (2001) was successfully run on a Nintendo Wii console.
The Wiikintosh project was developed by Brian Keller to prove that this operating system could be run on the console that was launched in 2006. The Wii hardware is actually almost comparable to a Mac G3 because it uses a processor from the PowerPC 750 family but with a smaller amount of RAM.
Keller made some changes by requiring a special bootloader, running a patched OS X kernel and loading the operating system via an SD card. Hardware constraints make OS X 10.0 run slowly but steadily.
Adapting OS X to interact with Wii hardware is very different from a real Mac. For those who want to try it out for themselves, the necessary files can be downloaded via Brian Keller's GitHub link below.
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