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Dreamcast Stuffed Inside an iMac Corpse Offends My Youth [Hacks]
Gizmodo —
In my younger days, my "Macs are for douches" days, this Frankentein of beloved-but-obsolete machines, brought to life by the black magic of modding, would've pissed me off. Today, however, I appreciate what it's trying to do: Bring two cult objects together into a single, self-contained artifact glorifying two of the great tech icons of the late 90s. The old, heavy and powerthirsty CRT has been replaced by an LCD monitor, while the Dreamcast is stowed away in the back, bolted in upside down. The controller ports on the front are seamless enough to make the whole thing work, keeping ...
Sega Dreamcast + iMac = iCast
CrunchGear —
In what may qualify as nostalgia overload, an enterprising Canadian has replaced the insides of an old all-in-one iMac with a Sega Dreamcast console. The end result is the iCast.
The process is detailed here on the CGCC forums by user “Logicdustbin,” who says:
“I had a couple G3’s laying around, and for some reason I had a 15″ LCD monitor. As I was cleaning up my workshop, these to things were sitting beside each other, the LCD looked to be about the same size.
So I started taking shit apart. Dropped about 100 pounds of CRT monitor out of the iMac, and in went the LCD, ...
Dreamcast Retrofitted Into iMac
Ubergizmo —
[logicdustbin]'s icast project consists of this old blue iMac getting its guts ripped out, only to be replaced by those of the long defunct Sega Dreamcast. In addition, the threw in an LCD display to make this a highly portable home console (although you will still need a direct connection to a power outlet if you ever want to take advantage of this. The entire project was very well done, and taking a look at the video might even fool some people into thinking that this is a factory installed model.
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