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🛜 Remember LAN parties? I do LAN means "local area network" and it was essentially the internet but locally only in your home or company in the late 90s and early 2000s So you could connect to other computers to play games or share files, kinda like Airdrop but...

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🔌Today I created a virtual web-based null modem so now you can finally play Quake 1 (from 1996) in multiplayer in the browser with other people online! This week I was able to create a virtual printer that listens on the COM2 port to make a web-based printer work in Windows 3.11, like on you can actually print to, it was one of my ideas when I started but it was always too difficult to make, I had no idea where to start, but this week AI was able to do it! Today I woke up and thought "if we can listen to COM2 via JS, how about listen to COM1 from Quake 1?" then we could forward the COM1 data via Websockets and to another user to create a virtual null modem (A null modem was a cable you'd use to connect two computers to each other directly in the 90s, if you couldn't afford buying a network card you'd use this to network, but you could only play with one other computer not multiple) So I built it, it took about an hour and works! I wanted to get Quake 1 in DOS to work with multiplayer for 2 years but I could never get it to work, but now it did it This project is a good benchmark of how capable AI is becoming, figuring stuff out that humans would take months within an hour You can try it here, I don't know how it will match lots of people but let's see, you have to exit to DOS first (ALT-F4 or FN-Option-F4 on Mac), then type CD games, then CD quake, then quake, then ESC, then Multiplayer, then either Create New Game or Join Game, and use Direct Connect, keep settings same and you're in!
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🔌Today I created a virtual web-based null modem so now you can finally play Quake 1 (from 1996) in multiplayer in the browser with other people online! This week I was able to create a virtual printer that listens on the COM2 port to make a web-based printer work in Windows 3.11, like on you can actually print to, it was one of my ideas when I started but it was always too difficult to make, I had no idea where to start, but this week AI was able to do it! Today I woke up and thought "if we can listen to COM2 via JS, how about listen to COM1 from Quake 1?" then we could forward the COM1 data via Websockets and to another user to create a virtual null modem (A null modem was a cable you'd use to connect two computers to each other directly in the 90s, if you couldn't afford buying a network card you'd use this to network, but you could only play with one other computer not multiple) So I built it, it took about an hour and works! I wanted to get Quake 1 in DOS to work with multiplayer for 2 years but I could never get it to work, but now it did it This project is a good benchmark of how capable AI is becoming, figuring stuff out that humans would take months within an hour You can try it here, I don't know how it will match lots of people but let's see, you have to exit to DOS first (ALT-F4 or FN-Option-F4 on Mac), then type CD games, then CD quake, then quake, then ESC, then Multiplayer, then either Create New Game or Join Game, and use Direct Connect, keep settings same and you're in!

@levelsio

103,726 views • 4 months ago

MEGA update: 🥳 IT WORKS: we now have a working dial up internet connection on a virtual Windows 3.11 computer running inside a browser over a virtual modem that talks via Websockets to a PPP daemon! So you can open open the computer, browse the web and even open the page you're on itself again at or chat inside mIRC chat app on or browse gopher:// or whatever you like to do Probably the nerdiest challenge I've ever taken on for the totally arbitrary reason that it seemed completely impossible to do this but we did it (now need to test it more so that it works with 250 parallel users at same time, but the prototype works now, so if you ask why it's not live yet) James Baicoianu, probably one of 2 people in the world who knows how to do this, helped fix my setup and created a virtual dial up internet provider for me that we can dial in to Somehow my mouse doesn't work yet, so I had to do it with the keyboard but here we run Winsock to dial up on a virtual modem that runs then emulates a virtual dial up ISP over Websockets [Next todo] - Fix the mouse - Make the 90mb emulated file smaller - See if it doesn't die with 10 or 50 parallel users - Speed up the Em-Dosbox emulator a bit so it's more usable
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MEGA update: 🥳 IT WORKS: we now have a working dial up internet connection on a virtual Windows 3.11 computer running inside a browser over a virtual modem that talks via Websockets to a PPP daemon! So you can open open the computer, browse the web and even open the page you're on itself again at or chat inside mIRC chat app on or browse gopher:// or whatever you like to do Probably the nerdiest challenge I've ever taken on for the totally arbitrary reason that it seemed completely impossible to do this but we did it (now need to test it more so that it works with 250 parallel users at same time, but the prototype works now, so if you ask why it's not live yet) James Baicoianu, probably one of 2 people in the world who knows how to do this, helped fix my setup and created a virtual dial up internet provider for me that we can dial in to Somehow my mouse doesn't work yet, so I had to do it with the keyboard but here we run Winsock to dial up on a virtual modem that runs then emulates a virtual dial up ISP over Websockets [Next todo] - Fix the mouse - Make the 90mb emulated file smaller - See if it doesn't die with 10 or 50 parallel users - Speed up the Em-Dosbox emulator a bit so it's more usable

@levelsio

2,070,589 views • 1 year ago

💾 pieter™'s Windows 3.11 PC is now connected to another retro computer on the web It's Ryo Lu's Ryos X, a MacOS X inspired Web OS where you can listen music, watch videos, play games, browse the web and now chat with people on my retro PC too My dream with this project was to connect it to other retro computers on the web so they can all participate as first class citizens on the internet eventhough they're all old computers running in your browser, and that's happening now 😊 My dreams to see in the browser AND connected to the real internet: - Atari ST (we had one as kids for awhile) - Amiga (never had one, but heard a lot about it) - Apple II (every SF guy has this one at home) - Windows XP (I wanna do it but it's hard cause 32-bit)
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💾 pieter™'s Windows 3.11 PC is now connected to another retro computer on the web It's Ryo Lu's Ryos X, a MacOS X inspired Web OS where you can listen music, watch videos, play games, browse the web and now chat with people on my retro PC too My dream with this project was to connect it to other retro computers on the web so they can all participate as first class citizens on the internet eventhough they're all old computers running in your browser, and that's happening now 😊 My dreams to see in the browser AND connected to the real internet: - Atari ST (we had one as kids for awhile) - Amiga (never had one, but heard a lot about it) - Apple II (every SF guy has this one at home) - Windows XP (I wanna do it but it's hard cause 32-bit)

@levelsio

63,198 views • 5 months ago

💬 Here's the demo of PC running Windows 3.11 (from 1993) talking to Apple Computer running MacOS 7.1 (from 1992) both running inside your browser It's crazy how fast the messages arrive, I'd have expected some delay because of the layers it has to go through It goes from a PC/Mac emulator inside WebAssembly in JS sending it via an emulated modem on COM1 port with emulated TCP/IP over WebSockets then routed via a PPP daemon to the real internet and to the reverse engineered America Online server and then back again to the other computer like that But everything happens in literally milliseconds Modern day computing and the internet is truly insanely fast 😊
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@levelsio

101,188 views • 9 months ago

🖨️ It took over a year and lots of help from Claude Code but I have now been able to create a real dot matrix printer on the web that prints from Windows 3.11 in your browser: Here's the test page: I couldn't get the LPT1 port to work but COM2 did work (the dial up model already uses COM1), the JS receives the COM2 serial data (just raw print data) and then prints it Next is to make the dot matrix printer better looking (kinda 3d like on pieter dot com) and have the paper also flowing in 3d out of the printer and integrate it on the page My idea was that it might work because we also capture the COM1 data (from the dial up modem) and send it to a Websocket as a dial up connection, so we should be able to capture the COM2 traffic too but I didn't know how, but now I do IT WORKS!! 😊
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🖨️ It took over a year and lots of help from Claude Code but I have now been able to create a real dot matrix printer on the web that prints from Windows 3.11 in your browser: Here's the test page: I couldn't get the LPT1 port to work but COM2 did work (the dial up model already uses COM1), the JS receives the COM2 serial data (just raw print data) and then prints it Next is to make the dot matrix printer better looking (kinda 3d like on pieter dot com) and have the paper also flowing in 3d out of the printer and integrate it on the page My idea was that it might work because we also capture the COM1 data (from the dial up modem) and send it to a Websocket as a dial up connection, so we should be able to capture the COM2 traffic too but I didn't know how, but now I do IT WORKS!! 😊

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85,969 views • 4 months ago

Do you remember the very first game you played via LAN? Not an internet multiplayer game, but the old school way of setting up a local network with friends. Duke Nukem 3D was the first game I ever played in a LAN setting. Those game sessions were absolutely legendary. And they required quite some preparation and effort! Dragging an 17" monitor, heavy-ass tower, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and cables was quite a sight - especially on public transport. I got some of the weirdest looks back then. The stares from the older generation were priceless, they probably thought "teenagers today are strange". Duke Nukem 3D had excellent graphics (for its time), epic sound effects, legendary weapons, and a total badass vibe which made it truly emblematic of 90s gaming. Feels like a different lifetime to be honest. I know people will argue today's tech and games are better, faster, and smoother but early LAN sessions can't be topped by better tech. It was a wonderful experience and I am glad for the memories - even they include us having to fiddle around with settings and cables for hours before we even fired the first shot.
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Do you remember the very first game you played via LAN? Not an internet multiplayer game, but the old school way of setting up a local network with friends. Duke Nukem 3D was the first game I ever played in a LAN setting. Those game sessions were absolutely legendary. And they required quite some preparation and effort! Dragging an 17" monitor, heavy-ass tower, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and cables was quite a sight - especially on public transport. I got some of the weirdest looks back then. The stares from the older generation were priceless, they probably thought "teenagers today are strange". Duke Nukem 3D had excellent graphics (for its time), epic sound effects, legendary weapons, and a total badass vibe which made it truly emblematic of 90s gaming. Feels like a different lifetime to be honest. I know people will argue today's tech and games are better, faster, and smoother but early LAN sessions can't be topped by better tech. It was a wonderful experience and I am glad for the memories - even they include us having to fiddle around with settings and cables for hours before we even fired the first shot.

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25,572 views • 3 months ago

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💾 Okay I finally bought a Raspberry Pi 5 to make into a real retro computer as a proof of concept I love the Raspberry Pi much more than my ESP32 simply because I can SSH into it and it's just like a normal computer or server, the ESP32 required specific software to re-flash it everytime and it was TEDIOUS!!!! I need a fast feedback loop to develop with so all this flashing is too slow for me The Raspberry Pi 5 instead just runs Linux which then runs DOSBox-X to run Windows 3.11 install live downloaded from there so it stays fresh I then also got a Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor by Stephen Jones (very indie and Kickstarter-style product) which is like a vintage retro PC monitor but with an OLED and it runs at 1280x1024, and the Raspberry Pi 5 has HDMI out so it works perfectly with it Then I got an 8BitDo retro IBM keyboard, but the spacebar broke, so I gotta send it back and get a new one, but it was great while it worked, so it's not in this video, and I got the 8BitDo retro mouse So altogether it's a proof of concept of a real vintage retro PC with internet and it works now My end goal is to make this into production and SELL it, not for money but more for fun because I think it should exist, just like Palmer Luckey's ModRetro Chromatic Gameboy-remake I'd go with something smaller than this 19" checkmate display though, it's great but too big for the Windows 3.11 era I think, more like 14" with a matching sized retro IBM-style keyboard and Windows 3.11 preinstalled (if legally allowed by Satya Nadella) with WiFi working out of the box We could also go with Windows 98/XP, because for me too Windows 3.11 was a very short time, so I too have vague memories of it, most of my computing memories is Windows 98/XP etc. Inside it could simply run on a Raspberry Pi 5 like here, which is easily powerful enough to run all of these OS'es I see many SF founders with Apple II's in their living room, and I guess cause Apple was more popular there back then, but in the rest of the world we were mostly IBM PCs and clones that ran Windows, so it's cool to have that as one retro object working with internet in your living room Anyway, step by step, we're here now 😊

@levelsio

155,824 views • 11 months ago

And it works! 😊 I've now been able to make all these DOS games work in their original DOS versions in multiplayer with my own local area network (LAN) emulator: - Quake 1 - Duke Nukem 3D - Doom 1 - Doom 2 If you go to and start a game, you get auto matched with another player if available, and a little LAN is created between you two over the internet and via my server (over Websockets) It works remarkably well if you think about all the steps involved
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And it works! 😊 I've now been able to make all these DOS games work in their original DOS versions in multiplayer with my own local area network (LAN) emulator: - Quake 1 - Duke Nukem 3D - Doom 1 - Doom 2 If you go to and start a game, you get auto matched with another player if available, and a little LAN is created between you two over the internet and via my server (over Websockets) It works remarkably well if you think about all the steps involved

@levelsio

111,474 views • 3 months ago

.Curtis Yarvin on how Facebook killed the ’90s dream of a decentralized internet and created a single pressure point for controlling speech: "In the '90s, we just assumed that everyone would have their own node on the network of the future." "Mark Zuckerberg comes along, and he's like, instead of building a social network, we just build a social server and we call it a social network. You were just a row in Facebook's database, and it worked great." "About 10 years later, people realized that there was this amazing pressure point which power could use to essentially manage speech in one place. Twitter had gone from the open forum of the public space to the open forum of the public space, but with unexplained disappearances." "There will be other elections, and these forces have by no means gone away." Urbit
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.Curtis Yarvin on how Facebook killed the ’90s dream of a decentralized internet and created a single pressure point for controlling speech: "In the '90s, we just assumed that everyone would have their own node on the network of the future." "Mark Zuckerberg comes along, and he's like, instead of building a social network, we just build a social server and we call it a social network. You were just a row in Facebook's database, and it worked great." "About 10 years later, people realized that there was this amazing pressure point which power could use to essentially manage speech in one place. Twitter had gone from the open forum of the public space to the open forum of the public space, but with unexplained disappearances." "There will be other elections, and these forces have by no means gone away." Urbit

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21,006 views • 15 days ago

📸 Back in the early days of the internet webcams were actually available quite quickly and the first one was invented in 1991 at the University of Cambridge Their first webcam was a famous "Coffee Camera" where people at the uni could see if the coffee pot was full or not, it ran for 10 years But quickly after people started using webcams for communication too, doing video calls with each other, as it obviously felt much more personal than just text chat. But the internet was very slow then so it had low frame rates, think 1 frame per second or maybe even 1 frame per multiple seconds I remember especially with MSN Messenger camming got big when I was in high school, you'd buy one for $30 usually from Logitech and connect it Now we all have a webcam integrated in our laptops, and it's a normal part of how we work, doing 1-on-1 or Zoom calls So I wanted to see if I could make modern webcams work on Windows 3.11 in your browser, so I asked Claude to generate its own WEBCAM.EXE while JavaScript pumps the Webcam feed from your computer into the DOS COM4 port And it works! And you can even print your face 😊 Try it on
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📸 Back in the early days of the internet webcams were actually available quite quickly and the first one was invented in 1991 at the University of Cambridge Their first webcam was a famous "Coffee Camera" where people at the uni could see if the coffee pot was full or not, it ran for 10 years But quickly after people started using webcams for communication too, doing video calls with each other, as it obviously felt much more personal than just text chat. But the internet was very slow then so it had low frame rates, think 1 frame per second or maybe even 1 frame per multiple seconds I remember especially with MSN Messenger camming got big when I was in high school, you'd buy one for $30 usually from Logitech and connect it Now we all have a webcam integrated in our laptops, and it's a normal part of how we work, doing 1-on-1 or Zoom calls So I wanted to see if I could make modern webcams work on Windows 3.11 in your browser, so I asked Claude to generate its own WEBCAM.EXE while JavaScript pumps the Webcam feed from your computer into the DOS COM4 port And it works! And you can even print your face 😊 Try it on

@levelsio

124,166 views • 3 months ago

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"At school or university, the thing is to be brilliant and to get the answer right first time. And there are brilliant people who can do that, but for the rest of us, we're not brilliant. And to get there, we have to strive and we have to go through failure. And we realize that you don't get it right first time, you don't get it right second time. In my case, and I counted it, it's 5,127 times. One of the things I always want to say is that sounds like a struggle. It was a struggle, but actually it was a hugely enjoyable struggle. The debt was mounting and I had three children, a wife and a home, and then a mortgage to pay, like everybody else. But I had a real point in life, I had a real aim and I had to get there. And the failures were interesting because I'd learned from every single one of them."

David Senra

137,546 views • 10 months ago

Elon Musk: I taught myself to code from a book, then sold my own games to buy better computers. “When I was about 10, I walked into a computer store in South Africa and saw an actual computer. I previously had some early sort of precursors to the Atari system, and then I got the Atari system, which I'm sure a lot of people here have played. But then I saw you could actually have a computer where you could make your own games, and it was a Commodore VIC-20. So that was the first computer I bought. And then I got some books on how to teach yourself programming. And this was like the coolest thing I'd ever seen. So I was just like, this is super awesome. And so I started programming games and then selling games in order to actually buy more games. So a bit of a circular thing. And more games and better computers and that kind of thing. Basically I'd spend money on better computers and Dungeons and Dragons modules and things like that.” Source: Computer History Museum, Revolutionaries, January 22, 2013.
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Elon Musk: I taught myself to code from a book, then sold my own games to buy better computers. “When I was about 10, I walked into a computer store in South Africa and saw an actual computer. I previously had some early sort of precursors to the Atari system, and then I got the Atari system, which I'm sure a lot of people here have played. But then I saw you could actually have a computer where you could make your own games, and it was a Commodore VIC-20. So that was the first computer I bought. And then I got some books on how to teach yourself programming. And this was like the coolest thing I'd ever seen. So I was just like, this is super awesome. And so I started programming games and then selling games in order to actually buy more games. So a bit of a circular thing. And more games and better computers and that kind of thing. Basically I'd spend money on better computers and Dungeons and Dragons modules and things like that.” Source: Computer History Museum, Revolutionaries, January 22, 2013.

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Steph on the moment he shared with Steve Kerr: "I was kinda fighting it to be honest. For it to start with that conversation and that moment, it was definitely weird. We're human beings and we have to be able to acknowledge each other in that moment, but I don't know if that's a signal of anything"

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259,700 views • 5 months ago

Will Ospreay has revealed part of the reason behind why Baba O'Riley was chosen for his AEW All In 2026 entrance was because the song was used for an MV Zone tribute video to Bryan Danielson in 2011. "There was a song that we wanted, but we just couldn’t get a licence fee for it. I won’t put it out there because maybe one of these days I will be able to track it down again. I’d like to leave that as a surprise. But it was Mike Mansury that came up with the idea of The Who Baba O’Riley. "I’ll be honest with you, I have a connection with that song because there was a music video from the MV Zone. It was like a kind of little backyard wrestling music video group, and they did a Bryan Danielson tribute to that song, so I have a little bit of a connection to it. "I was just okay, I quite like the idea and The Who is British as well, so that’s kind of cool. But I remember listening to it and on the travels that me and Al (Alex Windsor) did, and I was just like, I don’t know if I feel it. The other song that I wanted got my juices flowing. It was my favourite song. I don’t know if I feel it. It was only when I heard the voiceover and I saw the clips that were all around it. I was like, 'this is perfect. This is it. Don’t change a thing.'" (Source: Chris Van Vliet)
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Will Ospreay has revealed part of the reason behind why Baba O'Riley was chosen for his AEW All In 2026 entrance was because the song was used for an MV Zone tribute video to Bryan Danielson in 2011. "There was a song that we wanted, but we just couldn’t get a licence fee for it. I won’t put it out there because maybe one of these days I will be able to track it down again. I’d like to leave that as a surprise. But it was Mike Mansury that came up with the idea of The Who Baba O’Riley. "I’ll be honest with you, I have a connection with that song because there was a music video from the MV Zone. It was like a kind of little backyard wrestling music video group, and they did a Bryan Danielson tribute to that song, so I have a little bit of a connection to it. "I was just okay, I quite like the idea and The Who is British as well, so that’s kind of cool. But I remember listening to it and on the travels that me and Al (Alex Windsor) did, and I was just like, I don’t know if I feel it. The other song that I wanted got my juices flowing. It was my favourite song. I don’t know if I feel it. It was only when I heard the voiceover and I saw the clips that were all around it. I was like, 'this is perfect. This is it. Don’t change a thing.'" (Source: Chris Van Vliet)

Cultaholic Wrestling

29,644 views • 1 month ago

Another little thing that nothing but Fable could have helped me make today: You can now drag and drop files from your own computer into Windows 3.11 on The file is saved inside C:\DOCS and if you want to share it with other people you can put it in C:\SHARED It all works with a web filesystem called WebFS and it's very very cool, kind of becoming like a shared library/school computer
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Another little thing that nothing but Fable could have helped me make today: You can now drag and drop files from your own computer into Windows 3.11 on The file is saved inside C:\DOCS and if you want to share it with other people you can put it in C:\SHARED It all works with a web filesystem called WebFS and it's very very cool, kind of becoming like a shared library/school computer

@levelsio

114,316 views • 3 months ago

Doug Leone on being introverted: “I do not like meeting new people in general. Every time I have to meet somebody new the thought —and it's kind of nasty —that goes through my mind is "sh*t another a*hole I got to meet.” “And yes I do it. I can turn the charm gene on. I can fake it. I can be a cocktail party and know to walk around and network with everybody but I get home and I'm exhausted from that.”
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Doug Leone on being introverted: “I do not like meeting new people in general. Every time I have to meet somebody new the thought —and it's kind of nasty —that goes through my mind is "sh*t another a*hole I got to meet.” “And yes I do it. I can turn the charm gene on. I can fake it. I can be a cocktail party and know to walk around and network with everybody but I get home and I'm exhausted from that.”

David Senra

65,932 views • 1 month ago

James McAvoy says he was nearly cast in Harry Potter as Tom Riddle but turned down a £40,000 retainer "I was nearly in Harry Potter. I can probably say this one" "This the very first movie, I think it was, and it was, um, it was... was it Tom Riddle? In the first one, right, in the very first one, but he's like in it for like a scene." "It was a flashback or something like that." "They had, I seem to remember it was right at the beginning of my career, I auditioned for it, and I think they wanted to put me on a retainer." "They offered me something like, it was crazy, I'd hardly done any work, and me and I think maybe 10 other actors or something like that." "They wanted to put us on a retainer so that they could hold us and keep us to choose later who it would be. It was a really strange thing." "They offered quite a lot of money for me at that time. It was a ton of money, it was like £40,000 or something like that. And I'd done very little work, and I wouldn't be able to do any work for about seven months, I think it was." "And I said to my agent, what do you think? And Ruth Young, who's been my agent since, well, for what is it, 24 years at least, 25 maybe, she was like, absolutely not, don't do that." "And she was like, we're going to go and do something else and I ended up doing the play that I got booed off, got booed by homophobic gentlemen, 'Out in the Open'" "I did that instead, and got paid, I think, £275 a week. But it was part of the making of me, and I actually got an acting workout, it was actually learning and doing all that."
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James McAvoy says he was nearly cast in Harry Potter as Tom Riddle but turned down a £40,000 retainer "I was nearly in Harry Potter. I can probably say this one" "This the very first movie, I think it was, and it was, um, it was... was it Tom Riddle? In the first one, right, in the very first one, but he's like in it for like a scene." "It was a flashback or something like that." "They had, I seem to remember it was right at the beginning of my career, I auditioned for it, and I think they wanted to put me on a retainer." "They offered me something like, it was crazy, I'd hardly done any work, and me and I think maybe 10 other actors or something like that." "They wanted to put us on a retainer so that they could hold us and keep us to choose later who it would be. It was a really strange thing." "They offered quite a lot of money for me at that time. It was a ton of money, it was like £40,000 or something like that. And I'd done very little work, and I wouldn't be able to do any work for about seven months, I think it was." "And I said to my agent, what do you think? And Ruth Young, who's been my agent since, well, for what is it, 24 years at least, 25 maybe, she was like, absolutely not, don't do that." "And she was like, we're going to go and do something else and I ended up doing the play that I got booed off, got booed by homophobic gentlemen, 'Out in the Open'" "I did that instead, and got paid, I think, £275 a week. But it was part of the making of me, and I actually got an acting workout, it was actually learning and doing all that."

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