Hello everyone,

I saw threads of other YouTube channels, such as It's a Pixel THING, Top Hats and Champagne and A HomeMade Production and thought, why not have one for my channel?

I’m Phil, my channel is PhilsComputerLab: https://www.youtube.com/c/philscomputerlab

My videos are about playing older PC games, either on modern machines or on retro PCs.

A lot of content has to do with GOG. For example, I do these Tweak Guides, which are a bit technical, but are all about making GOG games looks and sound a little bit nicer. I’m picky about things such as aspect ratio or MIDI for improved music in older DOS games.

With Windows XP support potentially being phased out by Steam, DRM free games will soon become very important. So GOG is a great source for retro games, hopefully this will continue to grow.

Here is the GOG Tweak Guide playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5T8bmLxd_T3YkOUep7KmcSMdvMZPtk5b

Featuring games such as Space Quest, Wing Commander, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Strike Commander, Incoming, Quake, Doom…

I also “specialise” on getting GOG games to run on real retro PC, be it MS-DOS, Windows 98 with 3dfx Voodoo or Windows XP.

Some good videos are:

How to make old games look better: https://youtu.be/P2vnKDeVO8g

Playing GOG.com DOSBox Games on DOS Retro Gaming PC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5T8bmLxd_T1Op-FucLWr8CcKzUs-KLrp

How to install GOG games on Windows 98: https://youtu.be/dFBKwdtJ6uA

My favourite videos however are about building real retro computers. I cover everything, from what parts you could choose, putting it together, installing MS-DOS or Windows, drivers and whatnot. Featured are screen captures of these old games, worth checking out just for nostalgic reasons.

Some videos that might be worth checking out:

Building a fast 386 DOS Gaming PC with modern parts: https://youtu.be/YjGWj8d_gMk

Building a 486 with modern parts: https://youtu.be/YHIVGxNnkbA

10 Reasons for Pentium 4 Windows 98 DOS Retro Gaming PC: https://youtu.be/rr2r_mvKfuQ

Building a 4 in 1 Retro Gaming PC: https://youtu.be/fcAqRbFFQPU

Building the Ultimate 3dfx Voodoo 5 Glide Gaming PC: https://youtu.be/1DG0E4srIuA

Building an AMD Athlon 64 Retro Gaming PC Windows XP: https://youtu.be/eggK_fS-70E

Building fast Slot 1 Pentium III Retro Gaming PC: https://youtu.be/wd9lQ8o_NKI

I have a LOT of stuff planned for 2016. I aim for one video every week on Wednesday or Thursday. Most of my videos are PC gaming related, but I do other videos on occasions, for example I am doing a video series on the Mist FPGA computer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5T8bmLxd_T2IvI3veFMRgL3EvWmaQCec

So please check out my channel and hopefully you like the things I do and looking forward to lots of videos for 2016

Phil

Oh wow, nice channel. informative and interesting. I'll sub.
Do you have a vid on making an arcade retro game setup? like the old school arcade but with multiple games in it.

Wonder when Puzzleman will make a channel......

Didn't you already have a thread promoting this channel? Or have I lost my mind entirely?

Hi!

Not much into arcade games to be honest. Really want to stick with PC stuff :) I did have a thread for Tweak Guides, but will consolidate that into this thread, as I do a lot of videos that aren't Tweak Guides.

Keep it up! :)

All right. Glad to know at least part of my mind still works correctly. : )

That channel is absofuckinglutely awesome.

I have been spending the time watching your videos. Among other things, I got the urge to build a new-old 486 PC: I better control that urge, for marital reasons. I also learned about the MIST FPGA computer, And now, because of you, I might become 200 EUR poorer.

Again, great channel, great videos. Keep it up!

If I may throw in a request: I'd love to see reviews of some of the oldest and most classic PC games, like civilization 1, Dune and Wolfenstein 3D. I've played all those thee, but have little chance of running them nowadays (for now, at least) and would be a lot of fun seeing them at least.
Another thing: gaming on an old PC with HERCULES graphics and an amber monitor - how about that?

Just thought I should point out that the issues I complained about before are still present:

1. The channel page has an auto-playing video.
2. The thumbnails do not appear to be from the videos themselves.

Hmm I don't remember this, but yes to both.

The thumbnails will be custom, some have partial text with an image from the video. I wasn't aware of the auto play, looking for a setting to turn that off...

I've done a few gameplay / hot to play type videos, they weren't well received. And I agree, others do a better job at them :D 386 with VGA is as far back as I go. It's the 386DX that started my journey, it was my very first computer and I always dreamt of playing Wing Commander with Roland music. Quite a few years back I finally fulfilled that dream and the rest is history.

I have the flashcontrol plug-in for Chrome, so I didn't even notice this!

Hey, thks for the vids. I appreciate ur guides & efforts to make them. I especially like the 1 on how to make old games look better. Keep up the gd wk! :)

You don't need to go very far back to use a Hercules card. I've built a 486 with a hercules card (long ago...) and it worked flawlessly.