"Project Freeman" Retro 3dfx gaming builds

[VictorB]

This topic was lost during the forum upgrade. Thanx to slick I got my topic back as an html file! So I gonna rebuild the topic. Thanx Slick! Also I gonna post more then only 1 machine I gonna post all my retro build in here!

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I always wanted a Voodoo2 sli setup. But when your teenager you can't buy everything you want. So i have decided to build my dream gaming rig from the era 1999/2000 agian. With all Epic highend parts. The dual voodoo2 cards and the motherboard cpu and memory i bought used from the local ebay.

 

 

2x Voodoo2 12mb, AWE64Gold Isa, Matrox g450 32mb

 

 

Testbuild! It's much safer to test the hardware in a case then on my desk. For so far the setup is stable and with windows 2000 no errors :)

But the build isn't cool without a great case! So my choice is the Aopen HQ45!! The most known ugly case ever! No cooling option allmost no hd bays.

 

I needed to do lots of grinding and sawing to put 2x 80mm fan in the back.

Custom Front

It is made out of a top cover of a chieftec case.

I used rivets to build the front and filler to make it 1 piece again!

Testbuild!

I also changed some hardware in the config!

Pentium3 500

512mb pc133

Matrox g400max instead of matrox g450

2x Voodoo2 Sli

3com 3c905b instead of netgear nic

Awe64 Gold isa

Introduction video to the project!

Project Freeman: November 2012 update: Hardware complete and the begin of the Casemod

With my cat as sidekick!

First public appearance!

Project Freeman: Halflife1 Quake2 GTA1 gameplay - 3Dfx Retro Gaming

Sound demo!

Project Freeman: AWE64 Gold Midi Demo Doom Duke3d Monkey Island2

Software Render versus 3DFX Voodoo

I made a small demo to show nfs3 quake2 halflife with software render and the voodoo2 sli setup. :D

I had my Logitech WIngman Force still laying around So let's see if it still works after 15 years! and 10 years of no use :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBY77m3HQV8

I found a new Asus p3b-f motherboard for my retro rig.because it is not 100% stable. I found this board on a local ebay. I paid 10 euro including 6.75 euro shipping :)

I put primer on the case. :D

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My second build!!

I got some cool Retro parts! P3 1ghz, 512mb, Asus cusl2-c (EPIC), tnt2 m64 32mb, 56k6 modem, soundblaster pci128, realtek nic, floppy, 250mb zipdrive, slotin dvd.

Lots of nice hardware. And the motherboard is awesome!!!!

I cleaned and rebuild the system. I swapped out the PSU and installed a 40gb maxtor. The modem and cheap nic are gone and is replaced by a 3com 3c905b. The video card is for now a S3 savage4 to try it out.

Start of a windowmod! OLD nice hardware must be seen!

Update:

512mb Kingston memory

Asus V7700 Geforce2 32mb

Voodoo2 Sli 12mb

Soundblaster Live

Intel Pro 100/s

Video of this build

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My 3dFX Voodoo collection!

My retro hardware collection

Roland MT32 midi!

 

Ultimate year 2000 gaming build

This build has it own topic!

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/10233-ultimate-year-2000-gaming-build-asus-cusl2-p3-1ghz-3dfx-voodoo5-cm-atc201/

 

 

The plans of project freeman are to make more builds so we can have some oldskool multiplayer fun! I have joined awesomeretro! I do the pc gaming parts of it :D

Sponsors for this builds:

Most parts for this builds are donated to www.awesomeretro.com so we can build EPIC gaming machines!

http://www.awesomeretro.com

[BlackOutCrisis]

Those builds are too fucking cool! nice job man.

[Glaith]

Love it man, this is one of the coolest things yet, Totaly makes me want to finish my retro build

[VictorB]

100% inspired, will start collecting hardware asap! VERY cool build!

Cool Thanx :)

What generation hardware have you in mind? And what are you dream retro specs? I also have a dual celeron 433 on an abit bp6 motherboard. Only need to replace the caps. The board boots so i must recap it and overclock the crap out of it :D

If you have your build complete you can make a video about it :D I think you can take one of linus his camera's for this purpose. 20 dollar build and 8000 dollar cam :P

A retro build is the most budget build you can do with the most fun. I only bought 2x voodoo2 for 25 euro and the motherboard cpu mem for 10 euro The rest was given to me by friends or donated from people here in holland. I had a big laugh when i received 2 celeron 433 chips by mail. The person who donated them just put them together with the pin wrapped some taped around them. And then he put it in a bubble envelop and send it to me :D

 

Great memories, you need to get a CRT monitor for that rig. Cheers

No i decided to go TFT for 1 big reason. I take the system with me to hackers/geek/lanparty festivals so everyone can enjoy the RETRO EXPERIENCE So no i can take the system and a box with the screen cables keyborad and mouse. Maybe if i found a decent CRT monitor i gonna use it @ home.

I had a 19inch EIZO in 2001 which was EPIC. but after 5 years of heavy use it was in a bad shape the screen collapses sometimes. So i throwed it away 850 euro in the dumpster :'(

 

I wish I hadn't been so young during this time frame. I would have begged and pleaded to my parents for this.

Its very cheap hardware nowadays with great fun so build your own machine!

 

i want to rebuild my 2002 era pc too, but I want to keep my old OCZ ramkit, but I only got 1gb of that, wish i can find more somewhere cause they are some sick ram (OCZ4001024ELDC-K) ENHANCED LATENCY CL2-3-2-6

1gb should be enough for a retro rig. Just try to find more in time.

 

I still have my Voodoo 5 5500. Back when I purchased it I had to decide between the Voodoo or the GeForce 2 MX.

Good choice the Voodoo5 is epic and worth money and a gf2mx is worth nothing :D

 

I LOVE THE PROJECT FREEMAN ! can't wait to see it finished very inspiring !

I've still got my AMD k6 550 MHZ CPU 128mb 133mhz RAM and super socket 7 UDMA 66 board CREATIVE sound blaster live

and a 17 inch CRT monitor in the attic. still have windows 95b & windows 98se (best OS ever ). I would use the CRT for an old build, the pixels on old games look funny when not displayed on flat screens native res setting.

I was thinking of making a Retro PC out of wood (i know i'd have to add earthing cables in there) build room in the back to attach keyboard mouse CRT and sound, so all you'll see at the back is 1inch slot to run all the cables out.

Is there any SATA 150 boards out there, that have drivers that work with windows 98se ?

Steam version of half life 1 (the original game) works on my windows 7 PC For any one that wants to play half life again

are you going to paint the whole case a half life orange colour and ad a half life logo on there ?

They also sold laser etched half life fan grills in the past, don't know if there any on Ebay

seen your keyboard already orange shame we lost 3DFX, was the best you could get in the day

Find a copy of Battle Zone, that was a brilliant game using 3DFX

I have some special plans for the Freeman build but dont gonna tell them yet! No orange :P

Why use sata? pata drives are good enough just find some fast ones. I put a code of aan old HL cd in my steam and I also have all versions now :D

[VictorB]

awww your cat lovely

WOW this is so cool! Kudos to you for making your dream pc! This is so inspiring! I wish you good luck

That's awesome. Great games on the best hardware that was available when they came out. Congrats on building a dream machine!

This brings back memories... I used to have the Voodoo2 card, love monster truck madness

This is so cool! Keep up the great work!

amazing that is all :)

That's really cool.

tally awesome! so cool to see the retro love. keep it up!

[VictorB]

Haha that is so cool! Really brings back some memories.

Awesome retro build! I remember my old SLI setup, I had a P3 550MHz with 256MB SD RAM and Voodoo 2 SLI. I used that thing till I built my Pentium D in 2006

Massive nostalgia kick! I've wanted to do something like this for ages Put windows 98 on it and play all my favorite childhood games

Im going to do this is 2030, with 2 680s and a 3960x. Great build!

This is really awesome, yuo can also use another spare old part computer for a router they do tutorials on youtube but it's a lot more customizable then a router and cheaper if you have an old computer not in use.

The Asian is Everywhere

Hans Christian | Teri

So this is the whole topic again :)

Why is there a limitation on the amount of quotes?

[bradscoolio]

I love all your build man, they're fantastic!

[VictorB]

New parts of the awesomeretro builds are allmost complete!

2x Asus CUSL2-C + Pentium 3 1ghz, 512mb Kingston, Soundblaster Live, Intel Pro 100/s, Voodoo2 sli 12mb

and allready 1 geforce2 asus V7700 (Need 2 more)

This setups are the same as the first CUSL2-C build!

[MzCatieB]

this inspired me to do a mod for my next build, im planning on mounting my optical drive like this on the top

[VictorB]

This part i gonna change because of all the builds :) I don't need all drives in here. I have some crazy idea for it but don't tell yet. for the idea I need plexiglas and a lasercutter :D

Don't know if a optical drive work well in a angle with the different speeds etc. Maybe a laptop drive is ok

[XiaoPigs]

Simply sensational. I've always wondered a high end build in the past would look like. Look at all that fanceh hardware man. Good job collecting all the parts

[MzCatieB]

This part i gonna change because of all the builds :) I don't need all drives in here. I have some crazy idea for it but don't tell yet. for the idea I need plexiglas and a lasercutter :D

Don't know if a optical drive work well in a angle with the different speeds etc. Maybe a laptop drive is ok

im using a Cosmos 2 and im going to remove the 5 1/2" bay and put the HDD drive cage there, i know im still gonna need a optical drive though and this gave me an idea to top mount it at an angle behind top slider... its gonna be hard with a Rad there but atleast if it works it will look amazing :D

[VictorB]

Great idea! :)

(there are more parts coming in :D I don't gonna say there wil be more 3DFX hardware in my collection :P)

[VictorB]

I found this in a complete system on a charity streetsale for 5 euro!

QDI P5I430TX TITANIUM I B+, Intel Pentium 166, 2x 32mb pc66. The board has ATX psu and ps/2 mouse support. I like this motherboard It has not a single jumper!

TURBO Jonguh!

(See the original shipping plastic on the case :D )

[Helly]

i've always wanted a voodoo 2 SLI setup.. never got any voodoo 2's :(. went from voodoo 1 to voodoo banshee and then to geforce 256.

 

little while ago i worked at a recycling company for computer parts.. lots and lots of crap came in there but every once in a while some good stuff.

I saw your topic on another forum and i was inspired to get some parts for a retro build.. everything that we got was gonna be thrown away

and recycled... so i started looking more for good parts...

 

first i found a WD raptor 36GB Sata drive. I never planned on using pata cuz all those drives are crap :P. and i got plenty of sata drives here.

then one day it was almost as if a dream came true... a colleague was checking a plastic box full of old hardware.. he doesn't know much about computer stuff at all..

he picked up this card, pretty big and just threw it to the side as if it was nothing, i just happen to see him do it and just glimpsed it. Looked like there were 2 fans on it...

i thought nah, couldn't be... but sure enough it was an actual voodoo 5 5500 64MB AGP card... i think you can imagine my reaction to that.

 

it was old, stuffed into a plastic box with lots of other crap... i realized the chances of it actually still working. Took it with me anyway.

worked perfectly :D. I felt like a hero, still kinda do, for saving a voodoo 5 from certain death. these babies need to be kept safe.

 

actually found a PCI sata controller was well, so i could use the raptor. that pretty much made it a true beast :D. unfortunately i can't use windows 2000. can't find my key anywhere :(. using winXP atm.

 

hardware: MSI KT3Ultra2, AMD Athlon 2000+, 2GB DDR (i have 3 GB but get crashes and errors with it), Audigy 2 ZS, 100MBit realtek nic (putting in 1Gbit intel soon), voodoo 5 5500 64MB AGP, PCI Sata controller, WD Rapter 36 GB 10k rpm, WD 500GB 7200rpm (overkill storage i know :P). all stuffed into a chieftec silver matrix case with the door removed cuz i hate it and now lost it.

 

winxp gives me the following in games:

 

quake 2 and 3 refuse to use voodoo mode. tried some things which broke it and made the textures all messed up.

nfs 3 doesn't recognize the voodoo at all and only runs in software mode :(

nfs2 SE won't start at all.

 

half life works fine :D.

Unreal works fine :D.

 

those problems... is that cuz of winXP? will they work better on windows 2000? Cuz ill look for that key again if they do...

[Theo]

F*CKING BEAST! Screw titan sli, thats the rig of the year right there, you win my internet points sir!

[legopc]

try folding on that :D

[MathijsZ77]

Holy Lord this is awesome!

 

It makes me jealous and gives me inspiration!

[VictorB]

legopc maybe I gonna run RC5-72 on it! Thats retro :D

Ghetto AWE32 mounting!

[Art Vandelay]

Now, all you need to do is sleeve the power supply, and then your retro build has 200% more SWAG.

[VictorB]

Pentium 166

QDI P5I430TX TITANIUM I B+

2x32mb pc66

2000mb western digital

20 speed philips cdrom

AWE32 isa

Diamond Stealth S220 4mb

Diamond monster 3D 4mb

AT miditower with turbo button

200watt psu

1.44mb floppy

Coolermaster cpu fan

[Helly]

Lol... Turbo gives you a whole mhz extra? That is hilarious.. Hahaha turbo ftw!

[That Norwegian Guy]

This is an intense thread. So many memories.... I have that AOpen case somewhere, the one with the transparent green bezel accent. So much better looking than an iMac....

[dOug]

Now, all you need to do is sleeve the power supply, and then your retro build has 200% more SWAG.

Yes. That would be awesome!

[VictorB]

The turbo button isn't connected and the display is fixed on 167 no option to change it :(

No psu sleeving LOL that is so 2013 :P

I had today a big laugh! I was on my work (driving a truck). And i just loaded a pallet in a industrial area. They I saw a man with trolley full of scrap metal walking down the road. He passed my truck and I saw a computer. He looked like a junk or homeless man. I was thinking that should be 1998/1999 (case cdrom atx layout) maybe an pentium2 or something. And I saw a video sound and nic. So I asked can I buy the system. He said ok for 2 euro but I don't know if it still works. So I paid him the money and put it in my truck :D A few hunderd meters away there was a scrapmetal yard in the street :)

I open't it later and saw a pentium2 350mhz and 64mb of ram!

I cleaned it and I booted it up. And everything works!

The nice parts of the junk pc. Aopen ax6bc p2 350 64mb daytona i740 video soundblaster pci64 soundcard 3com 3c905 nic

:D