Portable computer + 3dfx Voodoo 2 - RETRO Hardware

[@balazsvilaga8040]

I'm a simple man.I see Retro Hardware i upvote.Besides 3dfx+carma2 also brings up pleasent memories.Good job sir!

[@hardwarearchive7406]

Nice job! This computer look like a microwave 😂🤣

[@thiagorocha7663]

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[@BoomBox02]

This would have been the perfect portable for a Lan party. Thanks for saving this old beast and sharing it with us.

[@ytanonymity3585]

Or just used laptop that can run most game

[@Keadil]

Wow! That's an incredible find! That would have been one badass system back then. Those Celerons were incredibly popular for overclocking.

[@RaPtOr9600]

That windows 98 first startup music never gets old. Had same speakers i gave them ago years and i miss them since.

[@apemoon1731]

I had a pair in black. Cracking speakers.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

I should take one of those Shuttle cases and recreate this PC with modern hardware and a 15 inch portable display. Trick would be finding a keyboard you could mount to the side. hehe cool PC mang!

[@reerjgiorge]

Today's videogames s1ck badly. Why would you want to recreate it with modern hardware? lol. You guys are so dumb.

[@ytanonymity3585]

@George R what ?? You think the new hardware wouldn't fit inside it ?!

[@garytallowin6623]

I would love to see a design like this done with modern hardware I would happily have a suitcase pc if it bridged a performance gap between laptop and desktop

[@pardonless]

With Core i9 and RTX 2080 Ti

[@garytallowin6623]

@@pardonless I was thinking more of a 3950x (as I do rendering) but yeah, you get what I mean

[@Queso305]

You can buy a case like this for modern hardware...except it is hundreds and sometimes over $1000

[@BrianCroweAcolyte]

Get a case like this and you can build pretty much anything in it, the only limiter I can think of is that there's no ITX Threadripper motherboard and only one ITX x299 motherboard, but most people would be perfectly happy with a 3950x or 9900k. www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Graphite-Series%E2%84%A2-380T-Portable-Mini-ITX-Case/p/CC-9011061-WW

[@rggyuhtgggbji5017]

Eurocom, jack! Break out your check book and skip a months rent or two. You good!! Lol!

[@oynamalan]

I just love old stuff. Creativity at its best.

[@GamingPalooza]

That is cool. Now the only thing you would have to do is figure out how to upgrade the celeron to a Pentium III CPU.

[@rggyuhtgggbji5017]

And the cooling needs for such an upgrade??

[@RETROHardware]

Max upgrade for this board is Celeron Mendocino 566 Mhz. Better way is put some SS7 board with K6-2/3, maybe slot 1 AT board.

[@badnewsbruner]

I would love to see a modern 'sleeper' PC build in this thing! You could replace the panel with a high refresh IPS panel and really surprise some people xD

[@tomc8157]

I'm currently doing that to a twin to RETRO Hardware's, buts its a P4 model. I have a bunch of these laying around. Only issue is the motherboard mounts upside down so the processor is at the bottom, and I need to use liquid cooler because the power supply will be sitting right over the CPU. Should be interesting.

[@LiquidSpartan117]

@@tomc8157 absolute mad lad. Got any visuals on that? Please

[@thisissouls6099]

The way the keyboard clicks is priceless!

[@dolphhandcreme]

Nice project! You can try to get the digital data from the inputs of the V2-DAC. It seems to be 5:6:5 (bit per color) so it should - in theory - be usable for controlling the panel. Then you need fast analog switches (the voodoo uses them for changing vom VGA to its own output, but they don't offer enough ports). Should be possible, but maybe a bit overkill ;-) As a base, i'd suggest a card with 2D+3D (e.g. V3) or something like a matrox which offers digital interfaces on its own and should be adoptable to the panel.

[@adamfoster3473]

i had one of these and i loved it the video card went out and never could find one like it anywhere.

[@TarlZaralka]

What computer is this? It looks like the one my grandmother had back in the day but for the life of me I can't remember the brand or model.

[@tOSdude]

You may be able to throw in a separate LCD driver board if you knew the pinouts of that ribbon cable. Unfortunately it's probably not info you can find easily.

[@md.mostafakhan4529]

5:28 Once upon a time when you could see the traces in a PCB.

[@DRNEGOLICIS]

i have a simular case but its by sterling computer and the monitor doeent move and the keyboard is detachable

[@imachynn]

Ahoj Kamrati! Dobra robota z wideo - prosto a konkretnie.

[@cptcrogge]

This is perfect, all the retro power you need in one small package :o I want one!!!

[@kubastachu9860]

How come GTA doesn't work on internal display but other 3D games do? White VGA cable only connects stock adapter to Voodoo passthrough input, doesn't work the other way around, does it?

[@prussian7]

I have a fondness for 'Trasportable' computers. Few years ago I found you could still by this style case for ITX motherboards.

[@Wok_Agenda]

WHEREEEEE? PLEASE TELL ME

[@prussian7]

@@Wok_Agenda www.ipctechnology.com/products/portable-computer/mpc-9000.html

[@prussian7]

@@Wok_Agenda www.taiwantrade.com/product/portable-computer-case-s9-464752.html#

[@juhasto91]

Carmageddon was first 3d game i ever have played and loved that game. Last summer was nostalgia trip when i played whole game again with tablet. Game is free in play store.

[@ChrisG3253032]

"Castle Wolfenstein" was the 1st 3D game I ever played, on a win 95 pc back in '95. I was also hooked on "Duke Nukem" (2D side-scroling version). Ahh memories

[@lordterra1377]

This is absolutely awesome. You sir are a legend.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

4:00 -- so lemme get this straight... this thing has both AT and ATX power inputs?

[@RETROHardware]

Yes it was normal for that HW era.

[@victorbelsito]

is this used to be the AiO from 1990 ? LOL Thx for keeping old pcs alive. Keep your good work. Best regards from Brazil my friend.

[@manuelink64]

What is the name of this case/pc/aio? The LCD is TFT or DSTN? Love the microwave/crt tv look Edit: damn I love Blood, the best FPS for DOS (love the gothic atmosphere and the dark humor on this)

[@kota8127]

What kind of portable computer is this? I have many ideas on how to make it a sleeper pc

[@user-ou2fi8xt8w]

Офигенный ноут! Жаль такие не прижились!

[@BlackJack1993100]

I love the creative designs of the cases in 80s and 90s. Today they are sadly not like this. the most looks like the boring mainsteam shit.

[@not1but2and37]

Rare!!! You must have a warehouse full of retro hardware :p

[@AntonyTriSusantoItran]

Oh I miss that start up and welcome screen so bad

[@user-rw1mo6vg7z]

man its almost hard to believe processors were that slow back when i was younger. we really have advanced far

[@FarmRanchHomestead]

That 400 MHz Celeron was a monster compared to the 3 MHz Z-80 CPU of the Sinclair ZX81 of my childhood.

[@gripihorche]

where can i find the original files of gta1????? in the repost cheatcodes does not work suckmyrocket itsgallus buckfast ...

[@celltronix]

you can upgrade the board to i series with dd4 ram and etc stull as well as gaming card

[@AlessandroCussino]

Can you use a more advanced graphics card ? Like a Voodoo 3/4 or 5 ?

[@MisterKitchenintheworld]

So nice, at the time I had a voodoo rush and this original game

[@yo31414]

man, those speakers, LOL I used to have them as well. and the games GTA, Carmageddon, Blood. Man I used to play them a lot on my K6-III with 400Mhz, Voodoo 3 and 256Mb RAM

[@brtclinic]

Да, впечатляет. Мне показалось что под одним монитором есть еще один.

[@tokiffer6649]

Where are you getting all those retro components?

[@hekkibork]

Vou tak to je pecka , taková nostalgie . Také mám zkušenosti s voodoo sice 1 a 3 ale na tu dobu výkon :D ps: Si říkám kde bereš takové HW klenoty ? To musí být velmi náročné i finančně co ?

[@flakhas88]

Great machine!!! greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!

[@Natures_Intentions]

Thanks for saving the vintage computer that thing looks really nice. Might even be able to upgrade to a Pentium 3 CPU. Thanks for sharing this video.

[@sayantannandi9227]

The precursor of modern Laptops and Notebooks.

[@KARAOTI23]

This is cool in so many ways!

[@LOLOMENTO]

this computer is from argentina?

[@n0madfernan257]

wow! think we can put a newer micro atx or smaller board in there? very nice.

[@RETROHardware]

Yes this is possible of course. You are limited with special CHIPS PCI VGA ... if you want to keep TFT functional.

[@n0madfernan257]

@@RETROHardware thats cool. thnx!

[@jhonnyxyz]

Really cool project. I would Like to see, If it is stable at 100 x 5 or even a multi of 6. XD is the board able to do more than 100MHz? The PCI cards were stable over 33MHz so there should be a nice overclock reachable.

[@dennisp.2147]

It's possible the board can't even do 100 mhz. There were several crippled chipsets that Intel used with socket 370 for the Mendocino Celerons (440zx?) that were intentionally held to 66mhz to prevent more debacles like the overclocking of the slot 1 300 mhz Celeron. What might be a nice update would be a voltage interposer/adapter and a 733 or 766 Coppermine celeron. I upgraded a few locked up PPGA 370 machines like that 15 years ago.

[@jhonnyxyz]

@@dennisp.2147 The Northbridge ist the VIA VT82C691 so it should Support 66/100MHz and what else ist the Option in the BIOS for? The Mendocino Celeron at it's best clocks 533MHz stock.

[@dennisp.2147]

@@jhonnyxyz Yes, i am aware of the Mendocino's clock limit. It was a frustration for me when they were new. As to whether the board can support 100 mhz, I'd have to get a better look, even with that Northbridge.

[@lelandclayton5462]

I found a system like that but it was white. It was on the curb when the neighbors moved. Was missing the Power Supply, Hard Drive, optical drive, RAM and CPU. I stripped it down and built it as my Gaming rig since I was attending a bunch of LAN parties. Had a AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM, Sound Blaster Live, Voodoo 2, Realtek 10/100 NIC, Iomega Zip-CD 650, 30GB Hard Drive and 1.44MB floppy but switched to a LS-120 Floppy. It ran Windows 2000 Pro. At one point right when 3Dfx went bye bye I bought a Voodoo 3 3000 for $60.00 on clearance and then used a 19 inch CRT TV for Gaming since it had S-Video and I think I tossed in another 64MB of RAM into it. Then over the years when it was too slow for anything I removed the Sound Blaster Live and Voodoo Card and turned it into my first Linux Box running Redhat 7.1. I have no idea what happen to that machine, might be in the attic in the house I grew up in.

[@ytanonymity3585]

How do you find it ?

[@Merlinkatamari]

Tomato Board BX98-CT WTF ! :D is it red inside ?

[@eclecticreader961]

OMG I must have this! Being that this is a portable computer, you can just push the power button to power on, right? You don't need any cords, right?

[@hafizazman7157]

Please try install windows xp Sp3...there is version lite edition created for very old hardware... I wanna see it run on this hardware

[@romanrm1]

Heh, I had a BX98-3D motherboard for Slot-1... very surprising to see one like that here. Oh you should enable "Read Around Write" in BIOS for better RAM performance. But then it might start to lock-up in some workloads.

[@GreatChicken2]

Daaaaamn. ATX compatibility, but absolutely requires you to have that particular ribbon cable female port on your GPU. It's almost a waste, could be the perfect LAN party box (yeah, LAN parties are outdated, but imagine!). There's a certain charm to putting desktop parts in a transportable crate with everything snapped on to it, as opposed to a laptop, and somtimes I wish AIOs were made this way instead of those flat panels that can't be modified, opened or repaired.

[@bpoolxantx15]

What does that weight?... looks well cool...great video...👍

[@bamdadkhan]

keyboard sounds great. whst switches does it have? white alps?

[@RETROHardware]

I don‘t know brand/manufacturer of kb. Yes it is pretty noisy. Everything around is noisy :-)

[@MarcusWilke1978]

Mensch, wo gräbst du die ganzen alten Schätze aus? ^^ wird zeit das du ein Museum eröffnest ^^

[@Trancelistic]

I remember that I had a celeron 300a and my bro a p2 333. We both had the same brand Board, hdd and memory. Only He had a voodoo3 pci and I had voodoo2. It also loaded the games faster on my celly but yeah, he had ofcourse more fps in games. Still my system felt more responive in windows and other tasks. I loved my celeron back then. Edit: Wow, I had the same speakers on my p75i

[@MACTEP_CHOB]

Is that bnc on lan card there? I have similar somewhere been wondering what it's for.

[@RETROHardware]

Yes it is classic dual LAN card with BNC + RJ45.

[@siemenstraffic]

5:44 See the date codes on the IC chips when from week 10 in 1999 Back in the day when 3DFX was still a healthy company and their products was "da thing". In SLI mode the Voodoo 2 put NVIDIA's RIVA TNT2, Matrox's Millennium G400, and even NVIDIA's GeForce 256 to shame!

[@CosmoRiderDE]

I have gotten me that DEMOLUX PC Overhead projector which is basically a Pentium 233 with a beamer. Want to 3dfx it too but the problem is how to get the signal output to the panel because its grabbed off internally from the 2D card to the little internal display. Here´s a video i found about it these days: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3nbhJR4aLZ-aM0. Its an SBC inside the case. But how to 3dfx it? hehe

[@CosmoRiderDE]

DOOM and co on the wall :D

[@михаилсиляков-л2р]

Cool, portable computer!👍 But how about doom2 or quake 1?

[@Erebus-PCFX]

Should have upgraded the CPI too! A nice Coppermine/Tualatin Pentium III would have been great...

[@RETROHardware]

This is first sockeet 370. Only Celeron Mendocino to 566MHz you can put inside.

[@coryknight7669]

well i guess he voided the warranty on this one hahaha love the videos keep it up

[@davidplacek3300]

Všude český windows, od kuď asi jste :) Videa dobrý :)

[@Ben333bacc]

I can tell you've never played Blood before!! Haha. Beautiful portable desktop, I'm JEALOUS!! I also have a PPGA celeron (366) with VooDoo II SLI and an AWE 64 Gold. Great minds think alike ;)

[@TheBigupz]

very interesting and rare hardware, its great that you can share with us i'd love to see a modern version of that

[@jjohnson71958]

I have a glidepoint comport nose track pad that works great

[@crazyfurnaceguy1229]

Unfortunately, the LCD display card can't support AGP☹️

[@RETROHardware]

Yep this is limitation.

[@sebastianperezcadavid3650]

AWESOME!!!! NICE ONE MEN

[@cmdrprawn5733]

some baller ass retro tech.. i think about building a 144hz gaming version ofd this in my head for years now haha

[@Itronyx1cz]

Wait the minute you're from czechia? i see that words are czech and i am czech too is it true? or not?

[@RETROHardware]

:-)

[@ЮрийЯковлев-б3б]

Первый компьютер у меня был примерно таким, только видеокарта стояла "riva tnt2 pro".

[@adambicho]

O kurde, pradziadek laptopa hahaa identyczny hdd mialem

[@CounterStriker013009]

can this upgrade to windows 10 :)

[@cocusar]

Is that some kind of Dolch?

[@RETROHardware]

Photo gallery for this video: facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=retrohw&set=a.753917861686175

[@kev3plus179]

I got Celeron Mendocino 400 MHz slot 1, this CPU is running GTA Vice City, sorry, my english is no good, i'm from Poland.

[@Aiono777]

Hey,i got the same portable computer but not the same brand (this one live 1 year at LosAngeles in 2000),but having intel processor intel 2 changed for the pentium 3 Tualatin+GF4+SB16),ultimate dos portable machine,see photos: ibb.co/NYYDmFF ibb.co/tX4TpjM ibb.co/bX4hQtW ibb.co/FxX4YTQ ibb.co/1vGfQnQ ibb.co/mCq1tJ2 ibb.co/T8GPgtt ibb.co/9c87zXM ibb.co/8gnPp9k

[@RETROHardware]

Nice one! Yours is more modern.

[@Aiono777]

@@RETROHardware Thx, we do not see much in circulation, but I think I'm going to sell mine (I do not use much, not too much time),but i dont know how much it can sell for quickly sale,if you know anyone interested before I put it on ebay or whatever, you can contact me ...

[@MLGKid420]

how much to pay for that portable pc?

[@pyotrpig]

Gordon Freeman? Is it you? I recognize your silent style....

[@Techozoom]

Nice, I have also an portable pc, but a little bit older. Mine has an Intel 80386 and 2 mb of ram, running ms dos ;D

[@jjohnson71958]

Nice set of actor juster 95 multi-media desktop speakers.. I have a pair that r mint condition

[@byterot]

amazing machine, however I'd put in a voodoo 3 or a TNT card so that you don't need the pass through VGA cable so that you can close the door to the ports when you're not using the machine though. But it would be the most amazing retro LAN party machine with the voodoo 2 inside :)

[@tmbardsen88]

I guess no AGP slot in this ?

[@byterot]

@@tmbardsen88 I think there is, you can see it at around 4:14

[@york7311]

It looks like an old CRT tv.

[@Menoslav]

Jak jsi nahrál ten obraz? btw. Dost dobrý video. Oceňuju tě, jak se staráš o starou techniku :)

[@RETROHardware]

Vse primo stejnou kamerou.

[@Menoslav]

@@RETROHardware Díky moc, myslel jsem, že to máš přeš capcure card :/

[@RETROHardware]

Tady ty stare veci maji casto atyp rozliseni. Na to potrebujes specialni karty do PCI a hromadu laborovani s nastavenim. Jak bych snimal ten TFT to vubec nevim. Takto to uplne staci pro demonstraci.

[@hblaub]

Use an SSD! With SATA 2 IDE adapter. It will be quiet and seek times are damn great.

[@mikefromuniontown3809]

i remember when Anand from Anandtech did a video intro of this NEW voodoo 2 card i thinK IT was ABIT BH6 INTEL 300 OVERCLOCKED TO 450

[@omarshahbal7511]

PC Not For Games ??

[@HoboVibingToMusic]

I was expecting when you turn it on to just hear the microwave earrape meme.

[@Adam_Lyskawa]

It should also run GL Quake! ;)

[@radon1917]

Very good portable PC, but... Why without DOOM?

[@A.m.a.r.u]

_Ty jsi čech? protože máš WIndows češtině :DDD._

[@THYTOGAMERS]

Run Crysis 1?

[@TheShivABC]

That motherboard will support up to a p3 800mhz and celeron at 700mhz

[@RETROHardware]

first Celeron Mendocino to 566 MHz is max.

[@TheShivABC]

@@RETROHardware I have that board rev 1.3 and it has a celeron 633 on it

[@TheShivABC]

It's possible you have older chipset, also I thought Mendocino maxed at 533mhz

[@RETROHardware]

You right max is 533MHz. I saw several revisions/types of this board too.

[@dennisp.2147]

There is a difference between the PPGA Mendocinos and the FC-PGA Coppermine Celerons, but you can sometimes get the newer chip to work in the older boards with the crippled 66 mhz chipsets.

[@danimayb]

Ahhh GTA.... One of the most American games ever produced, Created by British developers lol

[@catfleas4195]

ide system pretty good for bringing back the dead i would have left the original card in if they are still working and use a sata adapter put in highest possible hard drive install lubuntu put in usb pci card in the slots put in max memory if it can hold 1 or 2gb if possible. I used to have a 400mhz big unit

[@jinchuuriki5882]

Ohh i rly need to stop saying my computer is a microwave, because this one is rly a microwave hahah

[@klic6013]

saludos.. no habia llegqado a ver uno de esos .. like y sub

[@brunomoyano8727]

Por que tenía mendocino el procesador

[@lpgamer2647]

Pls install windows 10 on this computer

[@sebastianchibrac4877]

Try running Windows 10 on a 400 MHz processor and 265 MB of ram.. good luck.

[@lodocus1501]

someone needs to put modern hardware and better monitor in it

[@michaelsasylum]

I want a good lunchbox portable. They were always, and still are, way too expensive for what you get.

[@lodocus1501]

@@michaelsasylum yeah.. even though the laptops look better than this. but come on, who wouldnt want to use a tiny box that has gtx 1050ti with a i5 in it?

[@Basari_Firinci]

Oynadığın oyunlar o bilgisayara göre hafif . Daha yeni oyunlar oynar. 1999 yada 2000 lerde çıkan fifa,nfs...

[@mohammedabenourseddiki6860]

Well kids this is what we used to game in

[@ChrisG3253032]

So true! I remember when I was in highschool back in '95 they had a new windows '95 pc, we used to be hooked on playing "Castle Wolfenstein" lol