Best Youtube channel ever!

Lynaryd wrote:

Best Youtube channel ever!

Thanks 😊

Edit: Here is the label on the box:

philscomputerlab wrote:

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1000 subscribers thank you

I started this channel at the end of September 2014, and today, not quite a year later, my channel has 1000 subscribers!

This might not be a big number to many, but it is a big number to me. Thank you for your support in watching my videos and hopefully I can continue making lots more videos in the future.

Phil

That's awesome man. Congrats! 😁

Sitting on 600-odd myself, really itching to get back in to the videos after my... er... life events.

No that shouldnt be overlooked, 1000 in such a short time is an extraordinary number! You can include me in that number 😉

Thanks guys 😀

Also I subscribed your youtube channel and I watched almost all your movies, thanks for making movies with Pentium IV 😀 I hope you make more with Pentium IV platform and more with Athlon64 and one Athlon64 at Socket939. And your Dosbox guides helped me very much with other games, I used your settings on first Blood and that game run far better on my rig.

Tiger433 wrote:

Also I subscribed your youtube channel and I watched almost all your movies, thanks for making movies with Pentium IV 😀 I hope you make more with Pentium IV platform and more with Athlon64 and one Athlon64 at Socket939. And your Dosbox guides helped me very much with other games, I used your settings on first Blood and that game run far better on my rig.

I can do that 😀

Anyway. Got something huge to talk about:

The DreamBlaster X1!

Product link: http://www.serdashop.com/DreamblasterX1

Join me in this comprehensive review and demonstration of a brand new General MIDI wavetable board, created by Serdaco, a small company in Belgium.

In this review I will provide an overview of the board, the dimensions, how it fits on popular sound cards. We will look at pricing, options, the jumpers, what they do, and much more.

There recordings are used to demonstrate the functionality: What you hear is what you get. Towards the end are DOS game recordings including Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, Wing Commander: Privateer, Raptor, Descent, Descent II, Leisure Suit Larry 6, Space Quest 5 and Sam and Max!

So sit back, relax, grab a coffee, tee, beer, or whatever you are into, and enjoy this video!

Direct link to the video: DreamBlaster X1 wavetable board review demonstration

Another GOG Tweak Guide 😀

System Shock GOG Tweak Guide

Featuring Deemster's Proteus SoundFont!

The video covers:

Comparison FM vs. General MIDI
Using VirtualMIDISynth and SoundFont
Configuring the game to use General MIDI rather than FM
Tweaking the graphics
Boosting the Sound Blaster sample rate
Tweaking the CPU cycle speed to avoid a game-braking bug
Burning a full DOS installation CD
Forum support for the Enhanced Edition
Patch so text matches speech

Coolsoft VirtualMIDISynth: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

Deemster's Proteus SoundFont: ProteusGM (Creative Wave Blaster 1 inspired soundfont)

Cool. I bought one of those too, probably from the same seller. Mine is still sealed. After looking for a 1000MHz / 100 MHz FSB Slot 1 P3 for months (at a reasonable price), I found 3 within a couple of weeks of one another.

One of my favorite CPUs of all time. Just wish the stock fan weren't so loud.

(Oops...just noticed that your P3 video was not your most recent.)

Yes it's a great CPU! Will need to do a video featuring it, some sort of build guide 🤣

Retro News September 2015

Stay tuned for interesting retro news, releases and products that made it onto my radar!

If you come across anything interesting for next month, please let me know!

In this video the DreamBlaster X1, a new wavetable board, goes head to head against the Roland SC-55 and Yamaha MU80!

Game music featured are Doom II, Descent and System Shock.

DreamBlaster X1 vs Roland vs Yamaha

Something different, but I really like these headsets:

Audio Technica ATH-PDG1 Review Microphone Test

Video review of the Audio Technica ATH-PDG1 open back gaming headset. The entire video is recorded with the supplied microphone to judge the quality.

I will be covering:

- Length of the cables
- Pricing and value
- Comfort
- Sound quality
- PS4 headset
- Smartphone headset
- PC adapter and extension cord

98lite review - Is it worth getting?

This is a review of 98lite, a tool that can remove selectable components from Windows 98 and promises to free up storage space, increase boot times and boost general performance.

Having installed 98lite, as well as regular Windows 98, on the same machine, using the same settings, programs and drivers, I will be compare them side by side.

I will be looking at disk space used, boot times, performance in games as well es general responsiveness.

Computer uses is a Pentium 100 MHz, 64 MB Ram, Nvidia GeForce FX5200 and Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold.

philscomputerlab wrote:

98lite review - Is it worth getting? […]
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98lite review - Is it worth getting?

This is a review of 98lite, a tool that can remove selectable components from Windows 98 and promises to free up storage space, increase boot times and boost general performance.

Having installed 98lite, as well as regular Windows 98, on the same machine, using the same settings, programs and drivers, I will be compare them side by side.

I will be looking at disk space used, boot times, performance in games as well es general responsiveness.

Computer uses is a Pentium 100 MHz, 64 MB Ram, Nvidia GeForce FX5200 and Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold.

Thanks for the benchmarks here. I was always interested in the software, and wondered what sort of impact it actually had on performance. There may be a few other areas that would see greater improved performance. For instance I'd guess virus-scans complete significantly faster with the reduced installs. I'd guess most people using this today are probably more concerned with the additional simplicity of these installs than with performance (i.e. missing the days when you'd knew what every file in a Win 3.1 install did).

Planning on doing another test later down the track, looking at benefits on a fast Pentium III.

Wing Commander III Tweak Guide GOG

In this video I am tweaking the GOG release of Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger.

I will cover:

- Configuring the game for General MIDI
- Using VirtualMIDISynth and SoundFonts
- How to toggle subtitles
- How to change the language to German or French (Text only)
- How make the graphics smoother when moving around the ship
- Setting the perfect cycle speed to avoid some bugs
- Boost the sample rate for digital speech and sound effects
- Configure joystick as input device
- Configure joystick hat and rudder with the game

At the end you can watch me play the game a little bit (first mission).

Wavetable adapter for MPU-401 MIDI joystick game port

Chill and Phil Limited Edition, what is that about?

Deepcool Gamma Archer CPU cooler review

Something different 😀

How does this $9 cooler compare to the AMD stock cooler on a 80W processor?

One of my sibscribers made this for me 😊

It's on the main page of my website now 😀