Philip Adams
AstralPhaser (also known as Philip Adams) is the host and the Preparer of operating systems for the OSFirstTimer YouTube channel. He is also the creator of the ShiftOS.
He lived with his parents Diana and Ben Adams and his younger sister Jasmine in an apartment in Manly, Sydney until January 21st, 2018, where they moved into a house in Hobart, Tasmania.
(Editor of this page is not sure if it's true) Philip also edits for a fitness company located in Sydney. Some elements he includes in the videos for the company are included in OSFirstTimer videos as well. One example would be the lower thirds, which are the introduction slides/blocks with descriptive text, appearing mainly on the bottom of videos/documentaries.
In December 2020, Oscar Liang (MightyEagle73), content creator and veteran patron of OSFirstTimer's now-closed Patreon page, He helped Philip record and edit the 2020 Gaming Through The Ages Episode on OSFirstTimer, which was published four months later.
As his main computer, Phil currently uses an Mwave custom-built PC, which the specs are listed of in OSFirstTimer's About section. A Samsung Galaxy S10+ phone, with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage space, was used as his phone and camera, until he replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 in December 2021. His previous computer, an Alienware Area 51 from 2014, was replaced by his current one due to failing hardware, and the PC before that, a Lenovo ThinkStation was used but replaced with the Alienware PC due to increasing slowdown as well as increasing hardware incompatibility with newer software. He also used to own a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, but he sold it in 2019, due to his phone being capable enough to replace a portable computer for him.
Philip's YouTube Channels
OSFirstTimer (Main YouTube Channel)
He became interested in Windows 8 development. When it came out, he had his mum try it while filming her, starting the OSFirstTimer channel. The channel's main aim was to find the best and worst operating systems (initially the worst operating system was Windows 8 but that changed when Diana tried out MS-DOS). Now, they do it for fun, as his mum (Diana) had a 2013 Alienware 14 laptop with Windows 8 to replace her old Toshiba one with Windows XP. The Alienware laptop also got replaced later with the Lenovo Yoga 910 in August 2017. Diana still uses her Yoga 910 today.
They used what they called the shaky cam method, until the Windows 95 video, where they started to use a screen recorder to show the operating system and a green screen to show Diana and Ben. On May 17, 2014, Philip started to make Dad Tries Out videos. OSFirstTimer also does tutorials, unboxings, and used to do Q&A videos as well. Philip even published the video OSFirstTimer - House Tour! to the channel, which is a tour of their old apartment.
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AstralPhaser
AstralPhaser is a gaming YouTube channel that's home to Philip's Gaming Through the Ages series, where he plays games dating from 1975 to the present day, exploring 44 years of gaming console history. It is also home to the AstralPhaser Weekly Chat where members of the AstralPhaser Central Discord server meet, discuss and ask questions. These videos are unedited as of episode #11. The Weekly Chat has been discontinued since August 2017; episode #22 is the last episode, AstralPhaser's original purpose was to upload Lets Plays of Philip playing various games. An Oculus Rift game playthrough series was uploaded before the Gaming Through the Ages series. AstralPhaser last uploaded on December 15, 2017.
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I2padams
I2Padams was one of Philip's first YouTube channels. This channel is a replacement for his first (now deleted) 12padams channel. Other videos include Minecraft being played by his then two-year-old sister Jasmine, a video of her eating lunch. Due to Phil using a new account, I2padams last uploaded on August 20, 2012.
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TerrifiedMum
A month after creating OSFirstTimer in 2012, Philip started the TerrifiedMum YouTube channel where he gets Diana to play scary games as decided by Phil or requested by the viewers. As of November 2018, the channel is inactive. The channel started with a brief playthrough of the original Slenderman game, then went on to other titles, including Oculus Rift games. The content later expanded to include a reaction video series named Diana Watches. TerrifiedMum last uploaded on August 14, 2017.
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Arch Linux Adventures
Philip made a channel in early 2014 called Arch Linux Adventures, where he started in a terminal in Arch Linux and eventually evolved it by downloading the LXDE desktop environment, Compiz, and many more compatible programs. It was originally meant to have around 512 episodes, but it only had 15, (ep. 0-14) as it was hard enough to focus on his OSFirstTimer channel, and Philip wanted to work on ShitOS more. Arch Linux Adventures last uploaded on March 1, 2014.
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ShitOS
Philip worked on ShitOS, a game where you start with just a terminal and evolve it into a fully-functional graphical interface (like Arch Linux). However, he has stepped down from its development. From that point on, two new people were admins and developing ShitOS, but later quit doing that (for currently unknown reasons), making the project officially inactive. ShitOS also has its own YouTube channel. ShitOS last uploaded on October 12, 2014.
OSFT Historic VLogs
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In late 2014, Phil created a YouTube channel called OSFT Historic VLogs, where he publishes old and new, non-OSFirstTimer related videos such as videos from his childhood and parts of his daily life in more recent years of his life. The channel also contains videos including a 58-minute long video of Ben and Diana marrying on October 3, 1992, and a vlog video of them moving from Sydney to Tasmania in late January 2018, which is almost two hours long.
More about OSFT Historic VLogs
YouTube Millionaire
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In late 2016, Philip created the YouTube Millionaire YouTube channel, posing the question whether it is possible to make a million dollars on YouTube in the next thirty years with a series of different channels. The channel was originally kept secret but is now public.
TiaB KcilC
Around January 2017, Philip created the TiaB KcilC channel in secret (now public).
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TiaB KcilC, reversed for Click Bait, is part of the YouTube Millioneire experiment. The channel is to see if videos with clickbait titles can assist to draw in more viewers and contribute to the YouTube Millionaire experiment. All videos on the channel have thumbnails designed to attract views. Channel Description:
This is a channel you ought to click on... What is it? Who knows! Just click on it already!!!
How To Quickly
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In late 2016, Philip created the How To Quickly YouTube channel which uploads quick computer-related tutorials on how to quickly do certain tasks Examples are How To Quickly: Delete Emails From A Sender in Gmail and How To Quickly: View Older Versions Of Websites
What The Hell Just Happened
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In late 2016, Philip created the What The Hell Just Happened YouTube channel which showcases various magic tricks. A video showing Phil doing a trick is published and it is soon followed by a video explaining how the trick works. However, viewers must do the trick themselves in a video and link it to Phil's video, before the trick is revealed on his channel. If a trick video reaches 100,000 views and still hasn't been solved, then Phil will release hints and snippets of attempted submissions to help viewers figure out exactly what happened in the trick. Also, Diana made an appearance on what the hell just happened
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Let's Explore
In late 2016 Philip created the original Let's Explore YouTube channel which later evolved into the Let's Explore Community Hub.
Let's Explore involved Phil recording himself walking to various destinations in his local area allowing the viewers to decide what direction to go with YouTube poll cards, to explore new locations (initially starting with Phil's local beach, back when he lived in Sydney).
Philip made 13 episodes of Let's Explore in his area but due to the distance required to reach episode starting points Phil ended his personal Let's Explore videos and transferred the channel to someone else, however, it wasn't the end of Let's Explore as the channel had become quite popular and others began making their own Let's Explore Channels, which is when the Let's Explore Community Hub came around.
A dedicated Discord server was created under the same name to allow for other Let's Explorers to meet and discuss.
More about Let's Explore on the Let's Explore Wiki and this wiki.
Channel List
As of April 20, 2022, Philip has 12 channels:
- OSFirstTimer (active)
- OSFT Historic VLogs (active)
- AstralPhaser (discontinued)
- TerrifiedMum (discontinued)
- Temporary replacement was the Diana Games Through Time series on OSFirstTimer.
- YouTube Millionaire (discontinued)
- What The Hell Just Happened (discontinued)
- How To Quickly (discontinued)
- Let's Explore (discontinued)
- ShitOS (discontinued)
- I2padams (discontinued)
- Arch Linux Adventures (discontinued)
- TiaB KcilC (discontinued)
Other channels he partially manages are DianaAdams (previously owned by his sister Jasmine) and Diana's personal channel.
On the former channel, he made thumbnails and wrote descriptions for the videos she made. He was also featured in several videos of the Minecraft Let's Play series on that channel. Jasmine's channel has become inactive, as the last video published on the channel was on March 16th, 2019.
Diana's channel mostly consists of vlog-type videos. The activity of the channel is unknown.
Controversy & Criticism (Deleted by an User, reason: Too much misinformation.)
Trivia
- After over eight years of making content, he has managed to get over 100K subscribers.
- Char Char Gaming (now DianaAdams) is the first channel he created that doesn't have him as the (main) host.
- Instead, Jasmine (now Diana) is the main host, due to the channel being created for her.
- (Deleted cause of it being a joke)