Back in 2002 most people were still rocking a Pentium III which on OGONS... sorry, VOGONS it is considered as a dusty old retro computer these days. 😀

I definitely agree that Vogons lacks a Poll feature, this is a great way to visually gather information.

https://zetafleet.com/about.html

Colin Snover wrote:

I also started one of the now-largest retrocomputing communities, VOGONS, in 2002.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinsnover

If I would take a wild guess, Stiletto is our man.

So you think that Snover setup a sockpuppet account to hold a conversation with his real account? Here is the very first account. Topic one would have been an automatically generated post from installing phpBB.

Worst Memory Pig...ever

collector wrote:

So you think that Snover setup a sockpuppet account to hold a conversation with his real account?

Wait... who said that and where? And which account is the sockpuppet? I'm confused 😕

Nice topic. I'll be reading with interest. 😀 And I'll wager I'm the one that brings down the collective IQ of the forum. After I all, I *did* choose the handle "clueless1". 😉

keenmaster486 wrote:

collector wrote:

So you think that Snover setup a sockpuppet account to hold a conversation with his real account?

Wait... who said that and where? And which account is the sockpuppet? I'm confused 😕

This was a long running joke/idea. look though older posts and you may find people talking about it.

TBH, I been on this site a lot longer then my account has. Unfortunately I stop coming to the site a few years back and forgot my account info, I don't even recall my user name at the time.

Well dude! There's got to be a way to dig up your old account. Maybe an admin could even merge them.

Surely you remember some topics you posted in or created... do some creative google searches.

keenmaster486 wrote:

Well dude! There's got to be a way to dig up your old account. Maybe an admin could even merge them.

Surely you remember some topics you posted in or created... do some creative google searches.

It would be nice, but I really don't remember much from back then. I had some blood flow problems in my head and suffered some memory loss. I was more of a lurker anyway, I think I had very few posts.

Interesting thread. I always thought Vogons was a direct tie to HHGTTG. I never realized it could also stand for very old games on new systems which makes sense I guess. Pretty cool, I didn't realize this forum dated back to 2002. It's a lot older than I though.

I came over from the VDMS forum. Strange that VDMS has been dead for so long now... I wonder what Vlad does these days...

Dominus wrote:

I came over from the VDMS forum. Strange that VDMS has been dead for so long now... I wonder what Vlad does these days...

Well I came over from 3dfxZone forum, since the forum didn't appear to be very active, so I asked my questions here. Then I got to know people like 5u3 (3dftx stuff), Great Hierophant (MIDI and the likes), and Malik (Sound Blaster things).

Quest Studios also died. That was a great Roland / Sierra MIDI community.

I came here one day because I was bored on the internet

I came here because of driver issues with SB-Live on ICH7 using MS-Dos-6.22.
(or something like that, do no really remember that clearly)

On the first post on Vogons, I think I have searched that after sniffing out that it
all started on another forum.

I used to hang on #dosbox and then I joined purely to have access to the dosbox beta place.

A very interesting thread. I didn't know that VOGONS was spawned from VDMSound. I also didn't know that Stiletto is the founder and our gracious benefactor. Thanks!

Me? I think I started lurking around here in 2006 or so. I guess I didn't really consider what I was doing as "legacy" because I had just been continuously using the same systems I always had. There was nothing "retro" about it to me. Sometime around 2009/2010 I actively started making an effort to preserve my older hardware and make archives of my software. That was probably the point that this officially became a "hobby" for me. I don't know why I didn't set up an account here sooner, but I'm pretty antisocial, so that probably explains it. This is also the only forum I participate on anymore.

KT7AGuy wrote:

A very interesting thread. I didn't know that VOGONS was spawned from VDMSound. I also didn't know that Stiletto is the founder and our gracious benefactor. Thanks!

Me? I think I started lurking around here in 2006 or so. I guess I didn't really consider what I was doing as "legacy" because I had just been continuously using the same systems I always had. There was nothing "retro" about it to me. Sometime around 2009/2010 I actively started making an effort to preserve my older hardware and make archives of my software. That was probably the point that this officially became a "hobby" for me. I don't know why I didn't set up an account here sooner, but I'm pretty antisocial, so that probably explains it. This is also the only forum I participate on anymore.

No, Snover started the board, hosted on his zetafleet.com domain. It has since been turned over to Qbix with the domain vogons.org

Ah, I somehow misread things. Thanks for clearing that up.

Thanks also to Qbix for hosting us!

I don't remember where I came from...

clueless1 wrote:

Nice topic. I'll be reading with interest. 😀 And I'll wager I'm the one that brings down the collective IQ of the forum. After I all, I *did* choose the handle "clueless1". 😉

Not really. Being aware of one's own cluelessness means you have more clue then any realtime cluelessnessers 🤣

keenmaster486 wrote:

-?- When did the forum actually come online as vogons.zetafleet.com and who was the one who actually set it up? (I could take a wild guess and say: Snover on June 29, 2002 but that's unsubstantiated)
So there. Thoughts, comments, suggestions, criticisms, or philosophical musings, anyone?

I think the zetafleet lasted until maybe a year or 2 ago? Was quite a recent change iirc.

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Hello all!

After having lurked on these forums for a long while now, it's time to participate a bit more actively 😉

Recently I've been going through my old AT mobo's and some of those have an ATX power connector. I have no previous experience with actually using an ATX power supply on such a mobo but it seems ATX psu's fit right into AT computer cases.

It seems difficult to find any information about using an ATX psu with an older mobo.
I have a couple 235W units I'm probably not gonna be using anyway as I already have plenty ATX psu's for my ATX mobo's so I was considering using those with my AT mobo's.

Does anybody here have some experience about using ATX psu's with AT mobo's and cases they could share with me?

Edit:woops...maybe I should've posted this in the 'Marvin' forum instead of here? Admin, plz move if you think that´s best

Link to my actual first post ever here: AT mobo with ATX power supply

And apparently I wasn't the only one who was already lurking here for a long time before finally registering 😁
And for some reason I never left, I think the quality of the community has something to do with it 🤣

Anyway, I actually tried DOSBOX way before I joined Vogons. I think it was late 2002 or early 2003, when I tried DOSBOX to play Microprose's Task Force 1942. Of course, everything was very slow, so I didn't bother more.

I also remember trying VDMSound for Quest For Glory IV in the same year. I'm not sure why I didn't try VDMSound for Task Force 1942, it seems the game doesn't run on VDMSound at all.