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Portal for the C64

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Unfortunately I think Activision got there first. I even have my copy of the novel autographed by Rob Swigart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(interactive_novel)

I'm still looking forward to playing this one, though. :)

It's a different game, same name. The Activision game is a hybrid text adventure following after Infocom Zork-likes. This one is the puzzler by Valve.

actually Activision's portal was an amazing experience because yes it's a novel but you're the main character. You're an astronaut that arrived on Earth 100 years after you left and no one is on Earth. You find a single working computer terminal. The "game" is your terminal for you to use to figure out what happened. it's pre websites so looks like 80s ideas of info but I loved it

Sorry, I didn't make that clear: Activision got to the name first. I enjoy both Portals. :)

I recall buying Portal by Activision for Amiga at a local shop without having read any reviews before; as a huge sci fi movie/games fan I thought it was a sort of adventure like game but got hugely disappointed after discovering it was "just" a novel. My less than adequate English knowledge back then also prevented me from appreciating it for what it was, so I tossed it in a drawer before finishing it until the day I sold my Amigas.

Here is a full playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxjHjFXvwM

It even has a chiptune version of "Still Alive" at the end!

That's gorgeous. Graphics, music, cutscenes, everything is awesome. I would have played the hell out of it in 1987 (might still do, if I get free time to futz around with VICE...I have a real C64, but my flash drive adapter got killed in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident).

That's why they called it Portal. Concept is portable to nearly any architecture / platform: iOS, Android, Apple II, NES, Atari 2600... Great work!

Portal Prelude for Texas Instruments Calculators

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm...

I was just about to comment about the TI Calculator version! Pretty cool and worth checking out as well.

C= 1351 mouse support! That's pretty rare (and awesome). Also great to see both PAL/NTSC supported at launch.

Reminds me of this! https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm...

It's always pretty amazing to see these "demakes" on heavily constrained platforms.

A really neat concept/idea as well as execution. I'll be sure to mention it on my C64 related show tonight!

What's your show?

A small live-show on SlayRadio. It's primarily a test-bed for an experimental performance instrument I'm working on. Schedule and info is available here - www.planmixplay.com

It would probably behoove me to add - the show content is primarily playing c-64 remixes and me talking about various c64 related (and non-c64 related stuff). Recently I've finally gotten the visual output up and running so I broadcast a c-64 like output via YouTube.

This piqued my interest so I browsed your site a little bit and would like to highlight a couple of links to other people ITT.

http://www.lasselaursen.com/interactive-interview an interactive interview

http://www.lasselaursen.com/project/planmixplay talks a bit more about PlanMixPlay and also mentions a source of inspiration that is worth checking out as well, namely https://vimeo.com/25861552

codetrotter, I much appreciate you sharing links - I am particularly curious as to how you got to the interactive interview. I was pretty sure I currently don't list it anywhere on the site.

Organic google search perhaps?

Via your HN profile, on the submissions page, is where I found it :)

Offtopic, but just in case you didn't know about, http://remix.kwed.org/ is a great C64 music remixes site.

It is indeed juangacovas - I use it readily for the show :)

Is this a port of the Flash version that was around years ago, or an original take?

Some of the news-splashy C64 games being released are actually just ports that don't fully disclose their prior existence, and that kind of rubs me the wrong way.

I can't wait to try it. BTW Linux users, I personally found that running Vice via Wine is easier than native Vice and worked great. I've been going through C64 games and rating them when I have time...99% of the good titles are great coffee break games.

Similarly for BeebEm. Though RetroPie (even on an ordinary PC) is not bad.

There is a portal for everything...

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/

This is mind-bogglingly awesome.

great useless effort .....

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