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The Nintendo GameCube is known for playing the best version of Smash Bros. and its vaguely rectangular aesthetic. It’s not particularly known for running a workstation OS from the mid-1990s. However, with a little work, your diminutive purple console could also boot up Windows NT if you really wanted it to.
You’ll want a controller that looks *like* this, but not this exact model—because [Jiga Tech] couldn’t get this keyboard controller to work with the ported version of Windows NT.This is fundamentally possible because, once upon a time, Microsoft built a PowerPC version of Windows NT. The work to make it compatible with the GameCube was performed by a group of contributors—[Rairii], [NTx86], and [stonedDiscord]—with the resulting port made available on Github. It won’t just run on the GameCube, either. You can also boot it on the Wii, and within the Wii-U’s vWii mode, as well.
If you’re interested in seeing what this looks like, there’s a great video from [Jiga Tech] on YouTube that outlines the install process. Just note that the GameCube never really came with a proper keyboard. If you want textual input, you’ll have to fuss with a range of controller-entry methods, or get one of the rare GameCube controllers that had an entire keyboard in the middle. We’re not even kidding, they did exist.
