Pentium 233 MMX with S3 ViRGE retro pc - showcase and playing S3D accelerated retrogames

This is my vintage pc Pentium 233 MMX mid tower. It has the famous 3d deccelerator S3 ViRGE video card. It has integrated onboard CMI 8330 ISA sound card. I cant slow it down to play Test Drive 3, but it plays good other retro games like "S3D accelerated versions" of Screamer and Terminal Velocity.
For more info about the history of the S3 ViRGE video cards check @philscomputerlab :
• S3 ViRGE: When Hype Me...
And for an extended list of games supporting S3D ViRGE check @ctrlaltrees :
• Playing (Almost) Every...

[@saucyduckglobalomnihyperme7510]

So weird - today I just played the Quake and Terminal Velocity remasters on my Xbox, and now RUclips recommends this. Great games, amazing how well things designed for 4:3 1024x768 on a 14-17" monitor hold up in 16:9 HD on a giant flatscreen. Nice to see the originals get some love

[@brulsmurf]

i had the s3 virge. i still remember all the driver problems

[@retroboby007]

I found it very interesting. There were drivers for ms-dos even, the S3vbe20 to load for better resolutions. I tried glquake in windows 98 with miniGL wrapper patch, but it was a slideshow. I needed an amd K6-2 to run GLQuake on S3 ViRGE at decent framerates.

[@efpcvintageplanet3406]

Great classic setup. Love this video. Socket 7 are my favorite retrogaming machines.

[@filurebel]

had very simmilar setup as my first ever pc, 233mmx paired with s3 virge gx/dx with 2mb extended memory on simmilar motherboard (sim and edo ram slots), as a finished I added voodoo 2 at around 2001

[@retroboby007]

Cool setup you had there. I totally missed the voodoo cards, back in the day. From 386 SX 16mhz I jumped to Athlon XP Thunderbird 1.1 ghz with Geforce 4 MX440 and later Geforce FX5200

[@filurebel]

@@retroboby007 wow that was a noticable performance jump :) I went to Pentium 3 733mhz and then Pentium 4 3.2 GHz and then athlon phenom X4 :p

[@jamiehav0k62]

cool similar to my old system. Most of those games you could run on a 486dx2 though! push it with unreal tournament or something!

[@user-br3ns5yh9w]

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[@user-gn1pl1lp3u]

I've got a Toshiba Tecra 750DVD Laptop, with the Base Unit, sitting in my garage, with the same 233MMX and S3 Virge. I think it originally had Windows 95 on it, but tried for a long time to install a Linux distro on it. Going to have to try again and see what I can do.

[@retroboby007]

Thx for the comment. It really make my day to see people reviving some nice old hardwere. I hope you get it running and maybe this retro hobby will catch on you. But dont get dissapointed if the Toshiba will not work in the first try. If the hdd is bad, there are modern solutions like ide-CF, ide-sata adapters, if the floppy drive is bad, there are gotek floppy emulators... and so on. Patience is good in the retro hobby.

[@FoxMulder78]

The CMI8330 sound chip (Sound PRO HT1869V) is quite nice for an old integrated solution, it is compatible with Sound Blaster 16/PRO/2.0, AdLib and Windows Sound System 2.0. Also the internal OPL3 clone synthesizer is really good.

[@himila]

Thanks for the video!

[@compugamesarg]

Well played my friend.

[@mylifect]

very good

[@rangefreewords]

I miss terminal velocity.

[@retroboby007]

It was a cool game with some interesting new elements of gameplay. That flying through tunnels, I saw only in Ace Combat series many years later.

[@rockman9h02m]

Please normalize your audio as it's hard for us with hearing difficulties to hear.