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It really is an awesome hobby!

Yeah, he does that to people. You're not the first that comes here complaining about it. I'm afraid you will not be the last either.

I hope you at least feel better, knowing that you're not alone........ 🤣

Welcome!

Me too.

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I saw Phil videos later when I already took up the hobby. Although youtube was the reason I picked up, friend of mine and I were drinking and started talking abut retro computers and looked it up on YouTube. ... after watching 4 or 5 we both agreed that pple building them were retarded for poor choice in parts (not combining proper parts and period correct parts, whilet claimin they did), a 600w psu from unknown brand for a Pentium 1? While using a p3 gpu and so on. We both said we could better and we did 🤣

I blame Phil too. Have spent waaay to much money and time on this because of him! Not to mention cluttering up my (previously orderly) home with various computer parts...

I blame Phil too... Though not entirely. I blame Phil for being a part of the bug. 😁

Naa....
I have had this feeling of wanting to go back to my roots of computing.
And as I had tróuble with getting something to work, I discovered this forum.
Hence I discovered Phil's channel. (and other people's channels)
He and others made me aware of more than I ever would have imagined excisted
in terms of hardware and brands and so on.

Phil makes a lot of valuable content.

I mainly blame VOGONS or at least Marvin as a whole. I was planning to put together a DOS / early Win9x machine for a long time before acquiring the first parts and joining this place in the beginning of 2013. With these people and digging through years of archived posts, there's always another cooler piece of old tech you have to go look for.

I blame Phil only for a few items I've bought.
The full responsibility for getting me into this hobby goes to LGR, specifically the Voodoo 1 video, which made me think "wow this whole retro dual video card thing is pretty cool, think I'll do a Voodoo build for myself!" 🤣

And this is how it all began 🤣, reading all of Vogons from start to end before actually joining is pure madness!!
Err I mean it's pure determination! 🤣

Welcome aboard again Phil! 😁

But lets not forget all those other retro enthusiasts that were already here. Things have gotten busier the last few years as well (yes I also happen to be a stats nerd 🤣) and the knowledge buried here is fantastic! But Phil has helped sweeten the pot by a lot!

Is there btw actually a list of all Vogoners that have a youtube channel? I've been wanting to add a list of them to the Vogons wiki for a while now so I might as well ask here right away 😜

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And this is how it all began lol, reading all of Vogons from start to end before actually joining is pure madness!! Err I mean i […]
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And this is how it all began 🤣, reading all of Vogons from start to end before actually joining is pure madness!!
Err I mean it's pure determination! 🤣

Welcome aboard again Phil! 😁

But lets not forget all those other retro enthusiasts that were already here. Things have gotten busier the last few years as well (yes I also happen to be a stats nerd 🤣) and the knowledge buried here is fantastic! But Phil has helped sweeten the pot by a lot!

Is there btw actually a list of all Vogoners that have a youtube channel? I've been wanting to add a list of them to the Vogons wiki for a while now so I might as well ask here right away 😜

I've got one but I don't think it's OK to link it here. Possibly breaks the self advertising rule. Do you want me to PM it to you?

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Tetrium wrote:

And this is how it all began lol, reading all of Vogons from start to end before actually joining is pure madness!! Err I mean i […]
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And this is how it all began 🤣, reading all of Vogons from start to end before actually joining is pure madness!!
Err I mean it's pure determination! 🤣

Welcome aboard again Phil! 😁

But lets not forget all those other retro enthusiasts that were already here. Things have gotten busier the last few years as well (yes I also happen to be a stats nerd 🤣) and the knowledge buried here is fantastic! But Phil has helped sweeten the pot by a lot!

Is there btw actually a list of all Vogoners that have a youtube channel? I've been wanting to add a list of them to the Vogons wiki for a while now so I might as well ask here right away 😜

I've got one but I don't think it's OK to link it here. Possibly breaks the self advertising rule. Do you want me to PM it to you?

That would be cool, but please specify which info is public enough for me to list on the Vogons wiki page about interesting Vogons threads (linked in my sig).

The issue I've had is that I'm not savvy with everything that's on Vogons so any help (like hints or actual threads that have a good reason to be included) will help 😀
The same goes for threads that are actually worthwile to include, but somehow I missed or forgot to include. It's most welcome 😀

I blame Phil too, since i'm brazilian its pretty hard to find good parts and most of the time its expensive.
He inspired me to build a 3-in-1 Pentium,486 and 386 MS-DOS retro gaming pc.
Later he inspired me to build a Pentium 4 High Performance Windows 98 Retro gaming PC that still needs one sound card with Aureal Vortex 2(it currently has SB Live, but for unknown reasons the dos compatibility isn't working)
And all the money that i spent on GOG buying old games.
I blame Phil, and i also thank Phil, because i discovered such nice hobby.

Tetrium wrote:

And this is how it all began 🤣, reading all of Vogons from start to end before actually joining is pure madness!!
Err I mean it's pure determination! 🤣

Man, 2010? Wow time just flies past 😒

Phill is one of the reasons why I hit the gas so to speak last year when it came to mid to late 2000s graphics cards and so glad that I did, mopped up some amazing deals on some cards that most people will probably never have. I look forward to XP being as popular as 98 for retro gaming and some day Win 7 due to the drm protection with older games that can brick win 10.

I fooled ya ! 😈

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People to be inducted into the Hall of fame
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Retrogames100 - questioning Like Plato, he wants to know about everything.
5ue (System shock guy) - humble, just humble.
Elianda - oracle
Dosbox authors - I still play NBA Live on my main PC because of them. They're always ready to help.
Sorry to Great H...(The detective guy), man from China (CHIPS) and other stars !

So, yeah, You bastards ! Are you listen ? I'm coming to get you! 🤣 🤣

Thanks all. I'm not alone.. 😎

Retro Gaming is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from modern gaming platforms.

I don't blame Phil because I was into this thing almost 5 years before YouTube even started, 🤣. Back when I was trying to make internet videos run at crappy framerate on a 486 DX-33 with 8MB of RAM in 2001 because that's all I could afford and not because I necessarily wanted to - actually doing that was kind of what got me into the hobby, well, that and collecting classic video games, then finding out old PC hardware was super duper cheap at the time. I could pick up 3 expansion cards for the cost of one Atari game in those days, and they'd sometimes let vintage systems go for free or pay me to take them away because they were taking up space.

I speak for myself, but I think this can apply to everyone else in this thread, when I say "blame" what I really mean is "thank". He may not have been the first guy with the retro bug, but he's been very good at sharing his journey in ways that inspire others. Reading Phil's first post that Tetrium linked above was a breath of fresh air. Phil's passion for the topic was there from day one.