How, just how people do this. For more mortals it takes few years of university to get to some decent level.

Maybe the .cursor folder in the GitHub gives a hint on how he did it in such a short time span…

It has been a while since I heard that and remember they were popular on Sony vaios with cable capture cards. Wow.

That was my first thought as well. :)

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.

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.

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.