I bought a thinkpad 770 new in late 1997, as well as the Selectadock III and Selectabase. I also put dual Voodoo 2 cards in it around 1999. I admittedly paid a lot more for this setup than you did today. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
WOW! that was really cool Shaun. Thanks for the retro fun and good luck with replaying some of those cool classics. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Awesome video I own the Thinkpad 760 XD which comes with a docking bay which is similar to the selectabase but yours is on another level with the isa and graphics card slots very impressive.
That is awesome. Gives me nightmares of the Sega Genesis + 32X + SeaCD monstrosity but this is way better. Forgot the Acer Predator using desktop grade GPUs, this is the OG laptop using desktop grade components and I love it. I had just left school when Windows 95 came out so to see a machine peripheral like this just blows me away.
The day I bought my 3dfx Voodoo 2 (Diamond) I bought Quake-II. Sat down, fired it up, hit the areas with translucent water, shadows, and colored lighting and said "Aha, this is why I bought this card." :)
Lol Quake 1 and 2 were the most popular lan FPS in the computer science labs aback in high school in the mid to late 90s. Warcraft 2 and Starcraft were the top over all though. I was lucky in that the teachers didnt care what you did so long as your code was written and you understood the content.
Damn you so lucky man, I wish my thrift store had laptops. I just need one I can get a fresh third party battery for on amazon still and just run a light linux distro. Really been needing laptop bad. No desktop room.
That's pretty awesome. I used to have a secondhand Thinkpad about 10+ years ago, but I let my then-pre-teen niece borrow it because she loved to type stuff on computers (this was before she got into smart devices). Needless to say, it didn't survive. :( I'd love to get another one of these days.
Good question. My niece managed to separate the monitor from the base, destroying the hinges in the process. It would've needed a new case altogether. Regretfully, I ended up tossing it because I didn't want to put the time, money and effort into fixing it (and because I'm also a bit of a horde with electronics and thought it was best just to get rid of it). Keep in mind this was well before the retrocomputing craze, when vintage computers and parts weren't going for ridiculous prices. I didn't think much of it at the time.
well windows 3.11 was worthless for gaming and i was 8 at the time, so yeah i stayed in dos until games started becoming windows-only. i still remember running a dos game under windows 95 would eat about 25% of the performance of my poor poor 486 dx4 100mhz that i bought in 1994. my p 233mmx i bought in 1997 was okay with it, so that's when i switched over for good
How do you have connect voodoo II to the thinkpad ? You have connect the passthrough vga cable to the selectabase to the vga input of the voodoo II ???
Excellent retro battlestation. Hope I'll build something like this eventually. A little question, though. Are these Voodoo2 cards connected to the VGA-out port of the laptop itself? And then the monitor is connected to Voodoo2's VGA-out port? Just curious. Thanks in advance.
I have a similar laptop and docking station from Tulip. How did you connect the video cards together? Just use the VGA out on the laptop and connect it with the voodoo? How can it display than the video on the internal monitor of the laptop?
This makes my Vaio f series laptop with an ati rage mobility m1 jealous. Sony made wifi card sthat were pcmia for it, but it has a xircom 10/100 card for the time being. But it does have USB as well with generic drivers. Yay windows me
Hi,you just made me buy one of these! I paid a fortune (4 euros) for a pretty beat up unit , i cannot wait to come home to try if it works but i miss the recovery cd (i know ,outrageous to not be included in the price), would you be so kind to upload somewhere you iso?
Also, just a heads up, Mechwarrior 2 with Glide requires a Voodoo1. Went through with the guys on Retro Machines and Retro PC Gaming trying to figure out why I couldn't get the Glide version of Mechwarrior 2 to work. However, I did manage to get Mech 2 Mercs to work in Glide. But the original and Ghost Bear just wasn't happening without a voodoo1.
check out "dgVoodoo & Mechwarrior 2 3Dfx" on vogons, user kjliew wrote a glide.dll to glide2x.dll wrapper that lets him play original Mechwarrior 2 on Voodoo2 (and on emulated Voodoo using wrappers). He will most likely share it if you ask him nicely
Really cool video. I found an old pentium laptop in my dads basement. I think it's Pentium 66 or 90 mobile. What year would that have been if this MMX 233 was '97? I'm thinking '94 or '95...
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Now that is an excellent setup
LGR hey look it's lgr
Oh Hey Clint!
I was just thinking that Clint would love this! Amazing!
LGR make more food vids plz
And I actually read that in your voice. Hah.
This setup is simply beautiful.
I bought a thinkpad 770 new in late 1997, as well as the Selectadock III and Selectabase. I also put dual Voodoo 2 cards in it around 1999. I admittedly paid a lot more for this setup than you did today. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
What a beast! The idea of SLI Voodoo 2s on a laptop is brilliant :-D
WOW! that was really cool Shaun. Thanks for the retro fun and good luck with replaying some of those cool classics. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Even with all its components, I think it looks "Majestic AF"!!! Great work, you get a new sub :D
Totally agree about Quake 2. An excellent setup.
3:32 you're in for a treat. that's probably my favorite game of all time. i still play it often on lan parties
Back when pc games were fun to play
This is my favorite video ever, now i need one in my life.
One of the coolest builds I saw on youtube!
Thank you.
This is SUCH a good find.
Truly awesome. If USB didn't suck, we'd have laptop connected to a graphic card for games. A very cool expansion. If USB Xpress would...
WOW!!! I need to go check my old IBM Thinkpad that I got in storage and see if i can do this awesome setup wit it.
Awesome video I own the Thinkpad 760 XD which comes with a docking bay which is similar to the selectabase but yours is on another level with the isa and graphics card slots very impressive.
Epic setup! If the CPU is replacable, you could probably put an MMX 300 in instead, as well as an ethernet card.
That is awesome. Gives me nightmares of the Sega Genesis + 32X + SeaCD monstrosity but this is way better. Forgot the Acer Predator using desktop grade GPUs, this is the OG laptop using desktop grade components and I love it. I had just left school when Windows 95 came out so to see a machine peripheral like this just blows me away.
Before there was Alienware, there was THIS
Holy Millennium Edition, what in Vista is that!?
I want this laptop so much!!
Also how come that this video was recommended just now?
Hilarious. This cracked me up so bad..lollll I need this laptop..I want this...this belongs to me..lolll
I have an ibm 770 Thinkpad
Hooooly crap I almost shorted out my desktop with my drool.
It's like a retro Switch.
now if only you could condense that setup into a custom pcb and have 3dfx be truly portable, amazing setup brethren
I remember docking stations with card slots. Dell had a model in the early 2000s that was pretty much the last of them.
That makes me wish my gaming phones and handheld game consoles and laptops were thicker.
The day I bought my 3dfx Voodoo 2 (Diamond) I bought Quake-II. Sat down, fired it up, hit the areas with translucent water, shadows, and colored lighting and said "Aha, this is why I bought this card." :)
That's a glorious setup! Real computers are thicc
Man that thing's a beast. What a beauty.
Ok I have a ThinkPad 770 I really need to get this dock
Lol Quake 1 and 2 were the most popular lan FPS in the computer science labs aback in high school in the mid to late 90s. Warcraft 2 and Starcraft were the top over all though. I was lucky in that the teachers didnt care what you did so long as your code was written and you understood the content.
Probably the coolest laptop build I've ever seen.
Damn you so lucky man, I wish my thrift store had laptops. I just need one I can get a fresh third party battery for on amazon still and just run a light linux distro. Really been needing laptop bad. No desktop room.
I have one working with original charger. Boots up and everything but couple of errors that has to get rid of. Pm if interest
@@hoangchutich2144 still available?
oh my gosh that tube style screesaver. i remember beeing so fascinated by it when i was a kid xD
What a sick setup.
That's pretty awesome. I used to have a secondhand Thinkpad about 10+ years ago, but I let my then-pre-teen niece borrow it because she loved to type stuff on computers (this was before she got into smart devices). Needless to say, it didn't survive. :( I'd love to get another one of these days.
it happens :)
Good question. My niece managed to separate the monitor from the base, destroying the hinges in the process. It would've needed a new case altogether. Regretfully, I ended up tossing it because I didn't want to put the time, money and effort into fixing it (and because I'm also a bit of a horde with electronics and thought it was best just to get rid of it). Keep in mind this was well before the retrocomputing craze, when vintage computers and parts weren't going for ridiculous prices. I didn't think much of it at the time.
Awesome Setup! Awesome Machine! Great Clip!
Great video! A novel approach to retro pc gaming.
Omg now that is a cool setup
holy mother of god! that config!!!
VooDoo are great back then i still have voodoo 3
That’s the dopest thing I’ve seen in ages!
This is great. windows 95 was my first windows that i actually used. i used dos till PC dos 7 i think
Yeah I remember, windows 95 was the point that we actually had to upgrade to play new games...
well windows 3.11 was worthless for gaming and i was 8 at the time, so yeah i stayed in dos until games started becoming windows-only.
i still remember running a dos game under windows 95 would eat about 25% of the performance of my poor poor 486 dx4 100mhz that i bought in 1994. my p 233mmx i bought in 1997 was okay with it, so that's when i switched over for good
I love this setup. Very amazing.
Thats a beast !
*I'm in business* = Yeah man... You are. WOW. Thats a hardcore machine.
How do you have connect voodoo II to the thinkpad ? You have connect the passthrough vga cable to the selectabase to the vga input of the voodoo II ???
Ah lots of gaming memories
When this thing was new, I was still rocking a 486 DX4 100Mhz. It would have been awesome to have something like this back then!
fantastic, definatelly cool device!
2:12 I thought those were only introduced with the NetVista series, but I may be wrong.
Amazing video and idea buddy
Thanks
@@SIMPLETHINGS85 No problem you made remember of my old 486 IBM pc that i did have when i was a kid sleeples nights playng duke nukem 3d
Why did we stop doing this?? This would be awesome in schools
Hello. Can you rip that servise CD? It would be useful for many ibm 770 owners.
This video was great and.... now I'm a subscriber!
thanks!
@@SIMPLETHINGS85 What's this music name?
that is one bad ass rig.
super nice laptop congrats
Oh my God, this is AMAZING
How the hell do you take it off the dock? I've got a 755CSE and it's stuck to the Dock II 3546
This is really damn cool.
Excellent retro battlestation. Hope I'll build something like this eventually.
A little question, though. Are these Voodoo2 cards connected to the VGA-out port of the laptop itself? And then the monitor is connected to Voodoo2's VGA-out port? Just curious.
Thanks in advance.
Now that's a computer I want 😀
Amazing ..great stuff !
I have a similar laptop and docking station from Tulip. How did you connect the video cards together? Just use the VGA out on the laptop and connect it with the voodoo? How can it display than the video on the internal monitor of the laptop?
Can I come over and play?
“This is not even my final form”.
I have this ORINOCO pc-card. How you configurated on w95?
Id love to see some game play on it
This makes my Vaio f series laptop with an ati rage mobility m1 jealous. Sony made wifi card sthat were pcmia for it, but it has a xircom 10/100 card for the time being. But it does have USB as well with generic drivers. Yay windows me
For sure the strongest p1 gaming laptop
Amazing.
Did it came with the launch codes?
How'd you copy data to that vintage IDE SSD?
That's great!
The real tower of power
It's on sale ?
hi this selectadock iii fits inside a voodoo 5 5500 vga?
Greatness!!
And I can't even afford one Voodoo II card for my Pentium MMX 233 Desktop... :(
Could you list the components in your comments? I would love to replicate this as it hits every nostalgia chord!!!
lol and how much would that cost you? $1000+ probably
Where did you get those Docking Station, Man.
Yah quake 3 osp still played with the original patch 😁with my 20 years old installation i kept copied from drive to drive
EPIC!
Holly crap this laptop is better than my gaming pc
the problem with vintage machines is that they can break easily and difficult to fix -- parts are difficult to find.
Tomoko Abe that’s the problem with vintage anything really :) Fixing the stuff is half the fun for me.
this is fucking insane, i love it
Hi,you just made me buy one of these! I paid a fortune (4 euros) for a pretty beat up unit , i cannot wait to come home to try if it works but i miss the recovery cd (i know ,outrageous to not be included in the price), would you be so kind to upload somewhere you iso?
Awesome
or a voodoo 5 6000?
What this music name?
Fucking sick. I love it. So jealous.
ha,ya,black magic choCo blox!!
How much do you think it was (MSRP) all together in 1997?
Music?
this would have been hella expensive back in the day
The laptop version of SEGA CD+32 X
The predecessor
of thunderbolt.
awesome
Damn, the IBM LCD Monitor I have would go perfect with this! IBM ThinkVision L150 15' 1024x768 75Hz. I bought it specifically for Voodoo2 SLi.
Also, just a heads up, Mechwarrior 2 with Glide requires a Voodoo1. Went through with the guys on Retro Machines and Retro PC Gaming trying to figure out why I couldn't get the Glide version of Mechwarrior 2 to work. However, I did manage to get Mech 2 Mercs to work in Glide. But the original and Ghost Bear just wasn't happening without a voodoo1.
check out "dgVoodoo & Mechwarrior 2 3Dfx" on vogons, user kjliew wrote a glide.dll to glide2x.dll wrapper that lets him play original Mechwarrior 2 on Voodoo2 (and on emulated Voodoo using wrappers). He will most likely share it if you ask him nicely
:O.. oh man, you just made my day!
Amazing setup!!! How much it cost the expansion dock???
Really cool video. I found an old pentium laptop in my dads basement. I think it's Pentium 66 or 90 mobile. What year would that have been if this MMX 233 was '97? I'm thinking '94 or '95...
THIS
IS
A
TANK
How much I gotta pay to see this thing?
this is awsome ...lgr says so
It needs a 400mhz mmc-1 celeron. I think its mmc-1 at least. I know my 380XD is. :DDD
Oh my god.