Hello Everyone 😀

Took me a while to decide to join this place or not, but the new look is very neat looking 😀
And since this place is well known for retro hardware lovers I thought I'd give it a go.

Most know me as the current owner of the x-3dfx community at Facebook, there I go as Willem B.
We have 3dfx fans from all over the globe and we all have one goal to keep the 3dfx dream alive, and it doesn't matter who has what either.
As long you enjoy what you do best, that is all what matters.

Many know me as Gold Leader from Voodooalert.de & EVGA Forums others know me as Obi Wan Kenobi from 3dfxzone.it and as Obi Wan KenobiV6K from x-3dfx.
Yes I had several 3dfx Engineering Samples I used them to help test community drivers.
Artex is also an old friend of mine, good to see you here old friend.

Feel free to view my profile page to see my other interests.

So here's my retro PC that I worked 14 months on to gather all the hard to fine parts for nice deals 😀

Sveta 2002

AMD AthlonXP 2200+ Thoroughbred-A @ 1.8Ghz
EPox EP-8K7A+ AMD 761 Chipset with VIA 686B SB
2x 1GB PC-2700 Kingston @ PC-2100 266Mhz DDR
3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP 16MB Rev.A 3199
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Mitsubishi Electronics Australia F200 LS-120 Super Disk Drive from 1998
1x Seagate Barracuda V 80GB 7200 rpm Main Disk
1x Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB 7200 rpm Game & Storage Disk
Belkin 5 port NEC USB 2.0 PCI Card
3-Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI Ethernet adapter 10/100Mbit
LG HD-DVD-RW Drive 40x/16x from 2003
BTO Plusdeck 2c Cassette Deck Tape Player, Recorder & Convertor Drive
Antec True Power 550 Watt PSU
Addttronics 6896A Entry Level Server Tower
Compaq S710 17" Blackshade CRT from 2001
Reso @ 1024x768x32 @ 85Hz
Trust 300 3D Pro 300W Speaker set from 1999
1995 Roland E-14 Keyboard

Win2K Pro + SP4 & RU1 for SP4
AmigaSport 3.0 by AmigaMerlin from 3dfxzone.it
Latest 3dfx Tools for V3 3500 TV AGP.

Here the LS-120 & HD-DVD -RW Drive installed:

Here a closeup of my EPoX Mascot: Reggie the Lil Rexie from 1985, with an EPoX Logo from 2001:

Here's the system as of now playing a HD-DVD of Roger Hodgson Live in Montreal, Canada, 2006:

Which was this concert:

Rodger Hodgson - Live in Montreal (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ImqEwtpHus

Here playing a classic DVD TV Miniseries named Dinotopia; a nice classic DVD that uses the 4:3 aspect ratio

CPU fan & case cooling fans are all cleaned and renovated, this classic has parts from 1998 to 2003.
But I managed to make it like new as if it was bought new yesterday:

Here the entire side view:

All looking pretty at night:

And a screenshot from Win2KPro in 2020 as in yea I still run this OS in 2020 as the clock & date show:

Here just showing Pan Am B747-121 / 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 Background:

And everything neatly installed:

Here pics of the 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP 16MB Rev.A 3199 ( Week 31 - Year 1999)

Here the V3 3500 with my PAA B747-121

This pic I used to make the wallpaper for the system:

Here the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro + Extra's I got from my friend SWZZSR for around 60 USD, he is a good friend from x-3dfx
The Slot 1 CPU is my old P3/E 650Mhz, that is for an other project 😀
The Socket A cooler is the Cooler Master X-Deam-S Cooler for the AthlonXP 2200+ that I use for this system
There is also an Ata-133 to SD Card reader.

Here the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum pro it's self it's PCB date is 2703 ( Week 27 - Year 2003)

It's main purpose is playing old DVD's HD DVD's, playing cassette tapes , converting them to MP3, sorting out lots of old taes from 1981 to 1989 that my dad recorded via FM 104 "Rock in real Stereo" when we lived in Australia.
I mostly listen to them just to relive old times.
It's also used for classic games that I grew up with back in the 1990's
Games such as these:

Descent 1,2 &3
Freespace 1 &2
Half Life + Opposing Force & Blue Shift
Star Wars: X-Wing versis Tie Fighter + Balance of Power
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight + Mysteries of the Sith
Unreal + 2.25f Glide Patch
Unreal Tournament 4.36 + Opteration na Pali Single Player Campaign Mod 1.30
Tactical Ops
Quake III Arena
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge & Purple Alert Mode 4.28

And some other things 😀

It does everything I want it to do and that is all what matters.
3dfx, Boeing 747 & Pan Am always were things I loved and with this system I was able combine the three as one 😀

And there you have it really 😀
Enjoy the content 😀