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Reply 760 of 781, by imi

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you have to consider that these chinese motherboards matter a lot more in australia than in europe though ^^

Reply 761 of 781, by gdjacobs

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Indeed. Living with their shipping constraints must make life interesting.

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Reply 762 of 781, by Carlos S. M.

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schmatzler wrote on 2020-02-22, 00:41:
There was drama? They were his sponsor and I got a few great parts from them with his voucher codes. Good deal for me - I mean, […]
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Carlos S. M. wrote on 2020-02-21, 23:15:

since the electromynie drama back in 2017

There was drama? They were his sponsor and I got a few great parts from them with his voucher codes. Good deal for me - I mean, a man's gotta eat.

I agree that his latest videos seem very generic and uninspired though.
That Audigy 2 ZS video seemed to be a bit rushed, for example. He just installed all of the bloat from the CD and made it look like that's the only way to make it run on Win98.
"It forces DirectX 9 and WDM" - bro, just install the drivers manually without the setup.exe.

I also couldn't care less about [Generic chinese motherboard #7382], but I have to say that the videos are pretty well produced if you just look at time, editing and how the information is presented.
HighTreason sometimes rants on for an hour with a shaky camera in a dimly lit room - sorry, my eyes are too old for this to be enjoyable. 😀 I've grown fond of people like RetroSpector78, TechTangents, RetroManCave, Nostalgia Nerd and CuriousMarc- they produce their videos very well without them being too long.

Multiple discussions and arguments on this forum (i belive mostly people unhappy/dissapointed with the sponsorship and electromyne high prices in many retro parts, plus fights on the long closed and locked down ebay thread) from what i've heard about electromyne drama, there are mentions and threads about it, but they are long dead at this point since it was been over for a long time, it also happened around the time Phill left vogons

Yeah. some of his videos feels rushed as well, some were done in the wrong way and nowadays his lack of focus in retro computing pretty much put it into a second place considering his focus nowadays are budget modern computers and late XP era gaming

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Reply 763 of 781, by keropi

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Well interests shift overtime and you get burned out messing with the same stuff all the time... I can't say I am interest much in xp-era systems but I can certainly understand Phil as I too take breaks and mess with other stuff like consoles or jamma boards or other home computers like Amiga, cpc, etc...

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Reply 764 of 781, by SpectriaForce

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He lives in a remote part of Australia, so it must be quite difficult to obtain old hardware for acceptable prices. Furthermore the options for making a sponsored old hardware video are very limited, so I understand why he focuses on more recent stuff. You can't keep spending hours on something that costs money and then get nothing in return.

Reply 765 of 781, by clueless1

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SpectriaForce wrote on 2020-02-22, 16:46:

He lives in a remote part of Australia, so it must be quite difficult to obtain old hardware for acceptable prices. Furthermore the options for making a sponsored old hardware video are very limited, so I understand why he focuses on more recent stuff. You can't keep spending hours on something that costs money and then get nothing in return.

He's got a huge amount of old retro hardware, so I don't think it's got much to do with money. He's already spent it long ago. I think it's more that he's already covered pretty much everything there is to cover on older retro gear. It comes down to coming up with new ideas for videos that won't be rehashes of stuff he's already done.

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Reply 766 of 781, by Doornkaat

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SpectriaForce wrote on 2020-02-22, 16:46:

You can't keep spending hours on something that costs money and then get nothing in return.

I think that's what they call a hobby.😄😉

Reply 767 of 781, by badmojo

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He’s not that remote - postage cost has been no problem when I’ve sent him stuff and we’re on opposite sides of the continent.

He appears to be doing very well for himself; I’ve noticed that google is offering up his content often these days. But I assume that making decent money with YouTube means following sponsorship / advertising so that would start to define what you review and would be a hard thing to balance. That plus the tall poppy thing is always going to generate some resentment.

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Reply 768 of 781, by Akuma

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https://youtu.be/TCQKf1etLng?t=167

"If it has a bios we're going to flash it" 2:48 but you downgraded it from 601 to 503

Ha! what a day-brightner, thank you so much, I needed that 🤣

Reply 769 of 781, by Tetrium

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Akuma wrote on 2020-06-06, 18:46:
you 20 minutes ago https://youtu.be/TCQKf1etLng?t=167 […]
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you 20 minutes ago
https://youtu.be/TCQKf1etLng?t=167

"If it has a bios we're going to flash it" 2:48 but you downgraded it from 601 to 503

Ha! what a day-brightner, thank you so much, I needed that 🤣

Meanwhile on youtube:

Mruczyslaw Mruczyslaw 21 hours ago 2:50 why the latest bios you was updating on this motherboard was actually older than bios al […]
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2:50 why the latest bios you was updating on this motherboard was actually older than bios already installed

PhilsComputerLab PhilsComputerLab 21 hours ago Wow I can see it now. I had a look on Asus site and indeed the older version is s […]
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Wow I can see it now. I had a look on Asus site and indeed the older version is shown as latest!

So you basically responded here for the sole purpose of trying to ridicule him? It's not like he is perfect, none of us are.

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Reply 770 of 781, by t9999clint

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This is complete rumor BS, but I noticed that a dude named Phill in australia is dumping a bunch of retro hardware that Phill covered at one point or another in his videos.
You think he's dumping his old stock?
https://www.ebay.ca/sch/phillat0/m.html?_nkw= … =1&_ipg=&_from=

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Reply 771 of 781, by Pierre32

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t9999clint wrote on 2020-10-31, 02:18:

This is complete rumor BS, but I noticed that a dude named Phill in australia is dumping a bunch of retro hardware that Phill covered at one point or another in his videos.
You think he's dumping his old stock?
https://www.ebay.ca/sch/phillat0/m.html?_nkw= … =1&_ipg=&_from=

Opposite ends of the country (this seller is in QLD, Phil is in WA).

But yeah I've been seeing those listings, and it's quite a collection they're selling. But not getting too many bites at those prices.

Reply 773 of 781, by Pierre32

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Oh well, cleared up quickly and no harm done. Besides, who's to know how many Phils there are in Australia 😁

BTW, a bit more retro content of late, with the last three videos covering sound cards. Including a Gameblaster/CMS upgrade to a CT1350.

Reply 774 of 781, by t9999clint

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I also started it saying that it's probably bs.
But even then I probably shouldn't have posted that here...

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Reply 775 of 781, by johnyept

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Phil, is your page with the Audigy 2 drivers for the Sound Blaster live working? The link opens an empty page, tested with latest Firefox and Chrome.
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/audigy-2-dri … s-for-live.html
I already have the file and installed steps 1 through 5, I was just looking for info about what the CTShared folder was for.

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Reply 776 of 781, by Stiletto

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johnyept wrote on 2021-02-24, 22:02:

Phil, is your page with the Audigy 2 drivers for the Sound Blaster live working? The link opens an empty page, tested with latest Firefox and Chrome.
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/audigy-2-dri … s-for-live.html
I already have the file and installed steps 1 through 5, I was just looking for info about what the CTShared folder was for.

Phil hasn't made a reply here since 2017-06-30.

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Reply 777 of 781, by Doornkaat

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johnyept wrote on 2021-02-24, 22:02:

Phil, is your page with the Audigy 2 drivers for the Sound Blaster live working? The link opens an empty page, tested with latest Firefox and Chrome.
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/audigy-2-dri … s-for-live.html
I already have the file and installed steps 1 through 5, I was just looking for info about what the CTShared folder was for.

It's a 404 error for me as well.

Reply 778 of 781, by Warlord

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Original thread follow instructions there. Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Sound Blaster Live! cards (version 3.1)

"3.2 Run C:\AU1\CTShared\LaunchApp\SysInfo\Setup.exe which will install the Creative System Information utility and update the InstallShield Engine"
"3.8 Run C:\AU1\Audio\SFBMgr\Setup.exe and install the Sound Font Bank Manager (if you get an InstallShield Engine error here, repeat step 3.2)"

Reply 779 of 781, by Pierre32

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Looks like he's moved the info to his existing SB driver page (and has updated the link in his video description)

https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-live.html

For future reference, he's quite responsive to questions in his video comments, and on twitter.