The Phoenix Project 02: Post Fire General Q&A Session - Ask Me Anything AMA 

"Is that a Monster joystick or are you just happy to see me?" :D Nice having you back Mark, and thanks to Neil for hosting this!

I admire your spirit and optimism Mark, you're a top bloke!

Stuff can be replaced, Mark and family could not be :)

Mark, we love you!

Wonderful to see this. Well done Neil and all the best for the future and recovery Mark.

I so luv you two bouncing off each other, keep it up boys x

Loved this ....❤️

It pleases me greatly to see you on the up Mark :)

Great getting to know you better, Mark. I very much appreciate your views on parenting / education / work, as I hold similar values. Best wishes, and looking forward to checking out your channel.

Today i thinked on you, and be presented with this video after the dinner just made my day! Please, keep on going!!!

4 pencil cases that wish they were Spectrums disliked this video.

I do not have time to watch the video now, but i can see that you are smiling, Mark!! Good to see this :)

Great to see you back and smiling again Mark. All the best to you and your family as you rebuild.

Great to see you back Mark. You can't keep a top bloke down.

Was just thinking about you earlier today, Mark. It's funny what subconscious connections us viewers/fans build with people we've never met via this platform. I was wondering how things were working out and whether Neil had kinda taken you under his wing given the circumstances and - boom - here you both are. It's going to be a memorable Christmas this year for all of you. Best wishes.

Good to see you smiling! Please let Neil know that wifi switches aren't fire protection, they're the exact opposite. Don't ask how I know...

Happy to hear Marks back up and running. Thanks for the vids chaps. Much love from Northern Ireland.

Loved the fireside chat, felt like being among friend though I'm a few thousand km away in Buenos Aires. Raising my glass for the Phoenix project!

Just wonderful to see Mark smiling after all he and his family have been through. Excellent video - thanks both !

Killing me on the Monster Joystick line, guys! Glad to see you in good spirits! I feel a little bad. I never got a like or heart from a producer, and it happened was when I was in not the best spirit, and then I took a YT break and came to see... that what happened... happened. So very happy to see you're continuing on and doing well. Nice to see Neil there too!

Fantastic to see you back Mark and still keeping the spirit up!

So good to see him smiling. Both of you are top blokes.

Mark, so good of you to share how you're dealing with this and how this is something you can overcome!

So good to see you back Mark, and thanks to Neil for hosting! Looking forward to new content, both here and over at the Cave.

Glad to see you again, Mark!

I shouldn't laugh, but that Amiga CD32 'Terrible Fire' comment had me chuckling. I'm just glad that Mark and his family are safe after the incident!

Very happy to see Mark getting back on his feet :)

I'm glad your all doing well and getting back on your feet, also that the house is safe to do up. It was such a shock to see the first post you did with the fire engines still there.

Great to see mark smile again keep the fight go on :) hugs from sweden

I'm just glad to see that you are able to joke and laugh, looking forward to seeing future videos start to come out when you're up and running properly again.

It's good to see Mark in a good mode. Got this video on while working atm it's zo relaxing.

This video made my heart smile.

Glad to see you're doing well mate!! Every day's a step in the right direction!

Good to see you smiling despite everything and hope you can rebuild at least some of your collection

So happy that you seem to be moving on from that horrible fire. Hopefully you keep making videos and the donations and equipment keep coming in to help you return to some semblance of normal.

Great to see you smile again Retro Thumburg Fixes Stuff

It's been a very rough couple of weeks for me and I suddenly remembered about your channel and the whole situation. Gotta say it's really good to see you recovering Mark, keep it up mate! And thanks for all the content you've done for us, we really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Have a great day, sir.

Sweet!! They got to my question!!! :D

Fab to see you so positive after such a traumatic ordeal Mark 👍👊 I think i'd go back in time and buy a truckload of Jupiter Aces - sell one per month and that should keep me going - I might buy some Microsoft & Apple shares whilst I was there too 🙄😁 Just an FYI - there's an audio glitch around 24:30 for a few seconds (unless it's my medication lol) Keep up the videos and great work on the new Cave Neil - it is stunning!

Great to see you back Mark and wonderful interview.

I don’t know how I missed this video, woke up and wondered how you were doing and found it 😀 You’re the best Mark!!

Mark Fixes Stuff and Adrian's Digital Basement is my favorite RU-vid channels. Glad to hear you and your loved ones managed to pull through the ordeal the house fire must have been 😃

Great video guys and all the best Mark. Sphinx is one of my all time fave Electron games as well, and one that I have unfinished business with. Good luck with the rebuilding. Not just of your channel, but of your home.

Go West, winner on the dad/ uncle jokes.

I'd forgotten about that Amstrad!!!

I would love to support my favorite RU-vidrs on Patreon such as your channel, but unfortunately my budget doesn't allow me to, so glad you and your family are safe, looking forward to new content in the future.

Good to see you looking so we'll Mark. If you check out the Joe's Classic Video Games channel, there is an in depth repair if a Kiss pinball machine. Really incredible what they managed to do it with switches and coils. Quite remarkable

Such straight faces with the shaft advise 🤣

9:40 BIT HARSH NEIL! :) ps. glad to hear you are getting back to 'mark normal'

that's awesome, im a huge fan of the pc engine too! :)

No word of a lie, I've been having this weird memory of a game that I couldn't remember for the life of me what it was, what it was called or even what platform it was on. I just remembered bits and pieces. It's been bugging me for about 2 months now. Not until now, and you mentioned different coloured keys in Castle Excellent that I finally remember what it was! Now I need to go find a way to play it. It was an amazing game! I think I must have played it on either the CollecoVision or the NES.

Hi Mark! Some cracking questions and answers mate! Hope your well! I managed to replace my cd-i 450 laser mech with a new one that was originally for a jaguar CD.. yup same laser mech! So when your up and running you can have a bash at the timekeeper LOL I'm not confident enough for that job LOL. All the best mate! Keep up the great work!

Woah, woah, woah there Mark! What've you got against beans & socks?!

Waterford, PA is in northwest Pennsylvania, just outside Erie Greetings from the exact opposite corner of the state :)

Gretro Thunberg - Brilliant! 😂

Following on from the fire safety question, I looked at getting a fire extinguisher for my workshop (corner of the garage). Check local rules as it looks like the cheap powder extinguishers are effective but NOT recommended in the UK. I'm still puzzling over which one to get but I'll probably end up with two, one CO2 and one foam...

PC-Engine is a fantastic pick, I got a fully kitted out DUO-R myself.

6:50 - my choice would be a 1991 Amiga 2000 with ECS chipset and two floppy drives. Inside, I'd put a Motorola 68020 or 68040 accelerator, a hard disk controller, 4 MB of fast RAM (the accelerator would have space for more), an A-Max IV Macintosh emulator card (because of course I would, with floppy drives and a set of Mac II or Quadra 650 ROMs), a CD drive, a flicker fixer/scandoubler, an external genlock and, of course, a 1084S (the boxy one). Failing that, I'd grab a Commodore A1200 (not the Escom one) and enjoy SimCity 2000.

About that "time travel and back of money"-question... I missed the most of "Golden Era" of rising PC-gaming... I was too young and things costed too much... I was able to see and play things like Wing Commander etc. at the time, but just absolutely no way to buy such a PC at that time. Also, I didn't have money for C64... So my path was Aquarius, Oric Atmos (yes, truly!), Speccy, Atari ST and PC. On computer side... I caught up about the time of Quake 2 and Unreal (thereabouts), which was fantastic. But the time before that, with much money... That would be great to experience (for the first time) ;D P.S. And ALL THE BEST FOR YOU, MARK!!!!

Great video. What was the channel that you mentioned where they take things apart? I thought you may be referring to Dr.A but apparently not.

Hi Mark, it may actually be good practice to remove *ALL* charging plugs overnight - as well as television, computers/consoles and music systems. A fridge freezer may be all that's necessary to have plugged in all the time. As well as this, whenever I go away (usually overnight at the least) I'll remove the batteries from all the smoke alarms, place them beside the alarms, and leave them by the front door (just incase that really annoying "beep" from a low battery every 30 seconds upsets my neighbours - and as a security precaution). It might also be a good idea to keep anything which may overheat away from carpets, curtains and other textiles. I'm guessing you won't mind reading this, as of course I'm sure you could've done with this at the time, but I think one or two fire extinguishers (the handheld ones) should be kept to hand near anything that could catch ablaze. The condition of all electrical installations in your house would be good to keep on top of - I know this may be the case for some people, but there are many out there, who don't handle plugs and plug sockets very sympathetically. If you're testing/charging anything in the house, doing so at the highest point upstairs may also minimize damage in the future. The machines themselves that you receive might benefit from being PAT tested as a further precaution. There was something I nearly forgot to ask...have you been able to save things such as family albums (in whatever form they take), as well as sensitive documents/sentimental items etc, *BEFORE* everything may just get thrown out?? Preferably, it should be left to all of you and your family to categorically throw away what you unanimously decide to get rid of - no one else.

I have an original MSX, Toshiba HX10 if you want it?

Making pencil cases from PC shells, was your friend mad? ^_^

Really enjoyed this mark, loving the pony tail, I like something to hold on to 👍. You can never have too many spectrums 🥰. Just realized, did my megacd die mate😭. I'm saving up copy's of FIFA for when my cd32 needs recapping 😆. I've always hankered for a Sam coupe also. You fixed my 3d0 🥰 Generic phone chargers are evil, but at least thankfully you were all out mate.

Mark, can I send you something as a project and where can I send it?

What is the model of the CBM machine in the background?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo did you lose a Vectrex in the fire??

Pancakes or Waffles? Well, I am about to head to Waffle House, so definitely pancakes.

One of the worst things I have ever seen/heard was my brother soldiering a modding chip to my Xbox knocking the soldering iron over and pure instinct reaching out to grab it as it fell the scream that woke the dead followed shortly by B"*tard

PA is Pasadena, Good to see you smiling Mark! 🤘🏻

Surely if you were going to time travel anywhere, you'd go to the early 2010s and grab a PC with a shedload of bitcoin on it! Corrrrrr, imagine that...

Thanks for an interesting video guys, for anyone who didn’t see my original question the amusing fire safety video I mentioned was ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LFrFRslbJ2s.html

Don't you have a garage where u can do repairs and not in the house all them electrics in ur home is not a good thing especially not good in the dinning room. As that was the cause of the fire last time. Not only destroying ur business plus ur home.

this is a BIG video.. and funny enough I only noticed it when Mark said it was probably 5h long hahahaha as everyone said.. glad everything is coming together and you and your family are safe and doing well! cheers from Portugal!