AppleTV Series 1 - Silver Hardware

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AppleTV Series 1 - Silver Hardware

Postby freshfrankiep » Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:31 pm

Is there anyway to "flash" MAME onto my AppleTV Hardware? The Slver Series 1 has a hard drive that in the past I was able to add various applications. I can't imagine there is not a simple solution to this. Thanks.
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Re: AppleTV Series 1 - Silver Hardware

Postby akator » Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:45 am

I would also be interested.

A year ago I experimented with mods on a 1st gen AppleTV. It was far more difficult than I imagined because most of the guides and required files have long since disappeared. OSMC is pretty easy to install but I found it too buggy. Eventually I got XBMC sideloaded so the original AppleTV interface is intact with XBMC as a menu option. I even played with installing OS X Tiger onto it, but it was extremely slow and without audio it was pretty useless.

I thought for sure one of these would make a decent emulation box, but my investigation lead nowhere.

If you get any solutions to this, please post here.
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Re: AppleTV Series 1 - Silver Hardware

Postby Hot Trout » Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:11 am

I have not had a go at using an Apple TV. The past few years the Raspberry Pi is the go to tiny computer of choice for emulation.
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Re: AppleTV Series 1 - Silver Hardware

Postby onepeaceonegod » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:28 am

I would not do something with such a device, knowing their policy regarding proprietary software
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