[HN Gopher] NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003...
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NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the
Original Apple TV
Author : donnachangstein
Score : 80 points
Date : 2025-04-09 03:00 UTC (20 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Sounds like excellent hardware to run an old copy of Windows XP
| Media Player Edition!
|
| Edit: okay so realistically that's probably not going to be of
| use to anyone until someone writes an audio driver for the HDMI
| out but maybe one of those USB sound cards will work at least?
| rootsudo wrote:
| It has been a while since I heard that and remember they were
| popular on Sony vaios with cable capture cards. Wow.
| xattt wrote:
| HP sold an MCE PC line in the mid-2000s that fit perfectly
| into a home setup.
|
| Pair this with a Linksys media extender on other TVs, and you
| could have had a pretty modern media setup 20 years ago.
|
| https://www.cnet.com/reviews/hp-digital-entertainment-
| center...
| pjmlp wrote:
| That was my first thought as well. :)
| stevefan1999 wrote:
| I never knew the first generation of Apple TV was running on
| x86...
| Moto7451 wrote:
| Some people even got OS X running on these as a discounted
| albeit limited Mac. More practically you could do this in order
| to run "XBox Media Center" (aka Kodi) as it was named back
| then.
|
| The reverse was also true when Apple released what was more or
| less the Apple TV interface as the Front Row app and some Macs
| even shipped with an IR remote. The same IR remote worked with
| several Macs of the time.
|
| Eventually everything went to streaming and the software to
| support locally networked libraries became a side feature and
| eventually discontinued.
| varun_ch wrote:
| What's more impressive is the creator of this started with zero
| programming knowledge, and learnt C in three days to start this
| project, and seemingly months learning the systems-level stuff to
| make this work. Insane.
|
| https://youtu.be/YkjrEXtZoWM?t=465
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Before ARM took over the world long time ago, in 2030, people
| used other CPU architectures like x86.
| throwaway48476 wrote:
| ARM is going to spend the next decade suing their customers.
| The tide is going out before the tsunami of Chinese risc v
| chips hits.
| tiahura wrote:
| Cool. Bringing Windows 11 to M1 would be bodacious.
| monocasa wrote:
| Way larger uplift.
|
| NT functionally got rid of the hal<->krnl distinction, and
| baked a lot of Qualcomm-isms into the shipping arm kernels.
|
| Probably the easiest way would be a light weight hypervisor
| that translates Qualcomm specific hardware to Apple's.
| my123 wrote:
| > and baked a lot of Qualcomm-isms into the shipping arm
| kernels.
|
| not that many and only when needed.
|
| > that translates Qualcomm specific hardware to Apple's.
|
| More like generic arm64 hardware tbh. Windows doesn't rely on
| Qualcomm-isms
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