I Built the World's Worst Steam Deck
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Today we're turning the 90's industrial PC into the world's worst Steam Deck - and the world's weirdest sleeper gaming PC!
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#SteamDeck #Starfield #Sleeper
ChimeraOS dev here, this is amazing. Very excited to see a "portable" version.
Thanks for your hard work!!
OS not support nvidia? I have GT240 on old PC. It`s can work?
@@tomatoway we had to remove the nvidia support as it didn't work well and it was causing problems with non nvidia systems. Even so, that GPU would be too old. The GPU needs to support vulkan in Linux.
yes, "portable"
"It's like it was made for it" It was made for it. You can see the support brackets intended to support the end of a full length PCI card. A length that no modern card uses it seems.
yeah, who would've thought an atx mobo would fit into an atx case....
@@Caddy666 Sorry, I should have added a timestamp. This was about the GPU.
Those were pretty common on older machines for over sized ISA boards.
The standard brackets are made to support full length _ISA_ cards. PCI and PCIe have the board on the other side of the bracket so the board would go between the supports. Workstation GPUs will often have an offset bracket so they slot in correctly.
There is nothing better then sensible retro PC upgrades. 👍
Plz, don’t sponsor Betterhelp. It’s a *SCAM* I’m begging you not to do it.
Yeah it feels like everyone forgot what happened with them
@@perpetualcollapse what did happen with them? I forgot
@@macintush yeah what happened to them
I want to know
@@CromulentCorpse oh wow thats bad!
@@macintushI'm fuzzy on the details but I think they were driving people towards medical drugs. Great for pharma companies, bad for people.
You fooked up with BetterHelp. Also my first reaction seeing that thumbnail was "Oh god".
I want three of those teeny monitors.
ARS Technologies sells the USB-to-ISA-r, a USB adapter for ISA cards. It's quite expensive, but might get the controls to work on the new hardware... Awesome video btw!
pretty sure there's adapters to get isa cards working with modern computers, would make this even more janky.
Yep using the lpc port would be cheap and easy
Yeah. They don't work on any current gen systems anymore though sadly.
@@varnoi was thinking more along the lines of one of those old pci to isa adapters plugged into a pci to pcie adapter. you know extra jank.
@@orektez maybee, but they don't give interrupts. I think a better solution would be to interface with a new open source keyboard controller firmware for a usb microcontrollers like qmk
@@orektez there would be zero drivers for it tho
With the exception of the unfortunate Betterhelp sponsorship, overall a great video. Good project!
I looked up some info about the KIC ISA card that handles the keypad. It looks like it has PS2 outputs and it handles the translation from the keypad to PS2. It has an on-board microcontroller, and the firmware is uploaded from the computer. It might be the case that the microcontroller will run fine without the ISA interface, assuming the ISA interface is only needed to download new firmware. It might be worth trying hooking it up to an ISA connector that only provides power, then hooking up the input cables and see if it works like a PS2 keyboard.
Personally I would have put an industrial motherboard in here as you can get more-modern ones with ISA still on-board (I have an LGA1155 motherboard with ISA and I've seen ones with LGA1150 or even LGA1200)
Working drivers could still be a problem, which is sort of why new but legacy Nixsys systems exists.
Awesome video! But according to others i guess better help is a scam/pretty bad.
Mad genius at work here. The original industrial PC video introduced me to this channel and it's good to see that it's the gift that keeps on giving.
I can not overstate how much I enjoy these shenanigans. You're a pioneer, and an inspiration.
Last time I was this early that computer was cutting edge technology
"Modern motherboards do not have ISA slots" oh, but the DO!
This isn't just a sleeper build; this is a Rip Van Winkle build.
This embodies the Cyberpunk ethos of high tech, low life perfectly.
The world's greatest steam deck*
Have you seen what Bringus has been doing?
As soon as Sean said Chimera OS I immediately thought of Bringus hahaha
we need a LTT build off .. this is awesome
betterhelp very bad
14:51 LMFAO "portable" indeed!
That super-compact normal computer battery made me think: You should get a totally modern, normal case for when you carry that Steam deck around. Radio Flyer has some great ones, red steel or wood frame, built-in wheels and handle for extra maneuverability! :D
You could mount that pc into a coffee table and get some real arcade joysticks and buttons with the controller board. Also mod the monitor to pop-up would be beneficial. But that is a cool little setup.
haha fantastic! Would be lot of work... but worth it to get that membrane keyboard to work
The starfield photoshop was so on point I thought someone modded the Allen in the game :D
You could also find a second hand ipad mini (old one, like 4 not to waste any updated one) and fit it, inside to have a retro media / domotic station :D
If you troll eBay, there are some 32 bit PCI to 8 bit ISA adapters. Maybe these would work for the membrane keyboard?
I'd also hide the speakers behind one of the front panels, and maybe mount a couple of USB ports if there is space. 😎
You could probably use a modern usb microcontrollers and a USB keyboard firmware to get the membrane buttons working given the way the cabling looks like just passive switches.
Omg. I would totally invite you to a LAN party with this beast. Epic.
We need more of this madness, its brilliant!
My Acer Aspire One D270 netbook turned ultra portable DosBox/ gaming machine. First time being repurposed with shenanigans?
I have never heard of this machine - and my dad had 50+ old computers when i was a teen... HP all-in-one units with a tiny screen, printer, etc... old Apple IIs, Sinclair, ZX-Spectrums, TRS-80, and a TON of obscure stuff- even one that used 8" floppies...
best steam deck i have seen so far :) Would love to use it on buses and trains
This thing is looking good! And you've got the approval from the industrial automation crews so keep up the good work!
Thank you for this. I work as an automation tech. I love computers and all things tech. I think a lot of the industrial stuff is a untapped vane for content. Very cool!
Yeah, someone had a stroke. I don’t think it was of genius though. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Really disappointed to see you advertise better help after the harm they have done. Please be more diligent in the products / Services you promote to your audience.
What have they done?
@@brofesta8894BetterHelp was caught selling data to Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo, and Pinterest. The company recently settled for $7.8 million. The FTC confirmed that BetterHelp pushed people into handing over health information.
@@brofesta8894 : They're supposedly very rudimentary, so some people act like they're a complete pox upon humanity. Probably aren't worth their fees, but obviously I think people are over-dramatizing the matter.
@brofesta8894 they sell client data to Facebook for advertising.
@absalomdraconis sell data to Facebook is kond of shitty. Possibly hipaa violations.
I had multiple professionals cancel at the last minute, and I had no luck getting prescriptions from the ones that could prescribe them.
This is so wrong yet so awesome.
12:30 It was around this point in the video that I coud literally hear the Alan-Bradley begging for the sweet release of death.
Find a way to connect the membrane buttons working, mount it into a wall and hang a classic arcade joystick in front of it. It will look perfect
14:48 the audacity to "one more thing" us.
Even though I think it blasphemous to replace the floppy drive, this thing is pretty awesome!
Surely there’s some commercial-focused manufacturer that has modern motherboards with an ISA slot for the buttons.
Love it. Need to find me an old CNC controller for this very reason.
LMAO!! The CPU, MOBO, & RAM look like the Micro Center Combo currently running.
If i would live in the same country as you, i'd join your LAN party with my Wincor Nixdorf embedded banking system with a heavy aluminium rackmount case (sadly not a panel pc,but still cool)
amazing
@@ActionRetro I'm trying to get my hands on a complete ATM machine for some time to repurpose it as a funny arcade cabinet, but i haven't been lucky yet, since they are almost impossible to come by where i live, even for an electronics engineer.
A friend of mine once built a cash register gaming system, where he wrote his own python program, where Instead of clicking a menu, he is able to use the barcode scanner and a strip of paper on the keyboard as an application launcher. The extra keys on the keyboard were repurposed as programmable macro keys and the customer display which is connected via serial port is displaying temperature, fan RPM, weather feed and other things. Maybe this is something you could try out too.
There is also a lot of medical equipment which uses PC hardware. Imagine using various medical sensors as a game controller inputs. Controlling a game with internal organs or with EEG and the power of your mind. Or less appetizing: doom colonscopy edition.
Wait, I just realised this is the same Allen-Bradley that used to make those old fashioned brown cylindrical carbon composition resistors (as opposed to the modern dog bone shaped ones) you see in vintage electronics from the 60s/70s (and possibly earlier). So yeah, they've definitely got a long history in vintage electronics.
Also, if I remember correctly, there are some videos here on youtube showing how to use the Trusted Platform Module connectors on some motherboards with a pin adapter to get a real ISA slot on consumer motherboards. I'm not sure if your board has it but if you ever want to try and scratch that itch to get the membrane keyboard working, that would be the way!
Action Retro rolls Worst Steamdeck Ever, asked to leave lanparty
for that controller board, I'm still half expecting some silicon wizard to magically produce a USB based ISA slot emulator
SteamOS gamemode is meant to be played in 4:3 aspect ratio. I use a NEC FE2111 on it when valve breaks support for my OLED TV and it is so much nicer
Might try hunting down a wraith prism cooler. It should handle that processor with minimal issue and give you the clearance you need for the PSU
@@lurch789 It was designed for a 105 watt TDP chip, it's not whisper quiet like some demand nowadays, but it should get the job done. If you're talking about those transient temp spikes you see regularly, supposedly the silicon is designed to deal with it. You really have to overbuild your cooling solution to drag those spikes down.
This is the kind of ridiculous computer modding I come to TH-cam for. Thank you for this awesomeness.
In a thousand years when they dig this up, they will teach the kids of that era that this was gaming computers of the time.... Lol
Total insanity.
Very cool that LAN parties are still in discussion, lol.
8:05
Did the leo dicaprio pointing meme at the power button that I also have.
Every time I see some video from this channel, I have zero idea where we will end up--but the ride is always a hilarious trip to get there.
There's a 32 bit PCI to 8 bit ISA with riser cable on Ali express. I see there's an available PCI slot under the graphs card and if he reroute the HDMI cable he can use that bracket to mount the controller card... Now comes the question if Linux supports it 😅 Linux is pretty good with legacy support
Wow Sean... you outdid yourself! Amazing!
This is so stupid and I love it.
I took an old Tandy 1100 FD laptop from 1989 and put a Win 8 era laptop int it, from which I am writing this.
Speaking of Starfield, I can definitely imagine this thing mounted on one of the walls of the Star Eagle or the Frontier. Maybe even in the cockpit.
@@lurch789 lol well I mean just as a decoration on the wall. Like the other computer screens, just showing a picture. I like sitting in my Viking cockpit. Lots of flashy lights.
This is freaking bonkers and I absolutely love it ❤❤
Please take this to next year's WhaleLAN
"This thing is portable" lol, like a luggable from the mid 70s.
Do a lets play, and make the keyboard work PLEASE
Portable Steam Deck? Next weekend perhaps?
I love videos like this so much; it is always awesome to see what crazy stuff you are up to next! Can't wait to see what you do with that battery 🤣
Please don't sponser better help
This is so obscenely impractical that it has a charm to it. I suspected that you could fit a modern PC in there and you can, I was not expecting the monitor to work with modern components but that modern replacement does the job very well. Good job on this silly build!
(8:13) Those monitors usually have a setting to flip the display, but I have a different model of surveillance monitor with the same UI and do remember that the rotation setting on that didnt persist when power was disconnected.
(12:56) Haha that's an Xbox Series S/X controller, not an Xbox 360 controller, but I guess that's close enough. 😆
Looks like a set up you'd find in a weird cabin in the woods
“Totally normal.” Indeed: though I’m surprised that membrane keyboard front panel isn’t just PS/2.
This isn't a steam deck, it's a steam table.
-RWolfe 2023
Bro really pulled a permit with the city and upgraded his SteamDeck to the SteamPlaza
> gets "mid-range" components to upgrade this computer
> they're somehow several leagues ahead of my own "mid-range" computer
You could probably make that keyboard work if you connected it's matrix directly to a Arduino with QMK flashed on it.
Awww you didn't mention me this time... haha I see you got the parts from MicroCenter... That associate commision tag tho... haha. Great video. It made me cringe, but it was fun to watch!
Ah, you picked up those parts from Microcenter right? I got that same CPU/MB/RAM combo from them a few months ago.
That computer is so heavy no one is gonna think to steal it!
I love these videos so much! Keep it up, your content is great!
Great video! This bootleg deck... looks like it could be piece of test equipment used for doing hardware verification and validation testing on arcade game systems.
Good to see hes back to doing normal things.
your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should..
You just built a Steam Industrial Engine
now you just need a 1200 watt invertor to get that monstrosity to work off of that car battery
Impressive. Now let's see Paul Allen's Steam Deck.
Hmmmm maybe a colab you handsome fella.
if you want a higher res 9.7" screen you can get a ipad 4 display an use a control board from abusemark that makes it display port, thats what I did with my retro style 3d printed case though after 3 years of use I"m starting to lcd screen burn but I blame having discord on that screen constantly
“The Ship of Theseus” is dated terminology now. Henceforth, we’ll call this philosophical debate “The Computer of Allen-Bradley.”
That new LCD is just a repurposed 1st generation iPad screen. You can just get a dead original iPad and LCD controller to do the same thing.
We expected nothing less: a vintage industrial panel pc coonected in the most unsafe anti-industrial way but modded like a Mad Max vehicle.Way 2 go!
I think the Allen bradley steamdeck would make a great T-Shirt, I would certainly buy one. Now that's what I call a cyberdeck! keep it up, great video!
Perhaps a motherboard with an LPC connector and a LPC to ISA adapter
You need to power it using solar panels. 🤣
All that remains is to put that Pentium 100 board into a modern PC case.
Totally bonkers, totally love it.
That cable “management” shows once more that you’re a Fan of Jank. What a great and ridiculous project
This is some madness that I love.
I want one. When are these going on Kickstarter?
A man after my own heart...turning what would be otherwise considered useless junk in to an abomination just for pleasure (i made a multimedia center pc "thing" using the guts of an old windows tablet...and also the abomination that is my portable ps2).oh and u could have used the other half of the gamepad, i had one like it, but i guess u didn't want to waste time soldering a bunch of wires to the connection points of the flat flex cable.
I really enjoyed ur video 👍
the world's weirdest gaming PC, no body thinks about that but it's cool to do something unusual even it's not reliable
Oh my god, never saw that before. I feel it's an abomination
You want to take this to the next level? Rig this up to a race sim cockpit, with your rig replacing the steering wheel set-up, and link it to a bigger screen above it, like a Starfield ship's cockpit.