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NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV


The NTATV Project: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003, ReactOS) to the original Apple TV - DistroHopper39B/NTATV

Pretty quickly afterwards, I got started on hacking my Apple TV, and after over 700 days of on-and-off work, Windows XP finally runs! However, hackers very quickly realized that the Apple TV does zero verification on the next stage up in the boot process, that being the Mac OS X kernel file. Thanks to some alpha-stage UEFI video drivers for ReactOS, I was able to get to the desktop on that OS; Windows took quite a bit more effort, but I detail that in my write-up.

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