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Portal for the C64

177 points by bane 8y ago

themodelplumber 8y ago
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.
- stuaxo 8y ago
  Similarly for BeebEm. Though RetroPie (even on an ordinary PC) is not bad.
Gazoo101 8y ago
A really neat concept/idea as well as execution. I'll be sure to mention it on my C64 related show tonight!
- ebcode 8y ago
  What's your show?
  - Gazoo101 8y ago
    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.
    - codetrotter 8y ago
      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 http://www.lasselaursen.com/interactive-interview an interactive interview http://www.lasselaursen.com/project/planmixplay 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 https://vimeo.com/25861552
      - Gazoo101 8y ago
        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?
        codetrotter 8y ago
        Via your HN profile, on the submissions page, is where I found it :)
    - juangacovas 8y ago
      Offtopic, but just in case you didn't know about, http://remix.kwed.org/ http://remix.kwed.org/ is a great C64 music remixes site.
      - Gazoo101 8y ago
        It is indeed juangacovas - I use it readily for the show :)
SwellJoe 8y ago
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).
classichasclass 8y ago
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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(interactive_novel) I'm still looking forward to playing this one, though. :)
- karmakaze 8y ago
  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.
  - tokyodude 8y ago
    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
  - classichasclass 8y ago
    Sorry, I didn't make that clear: Activision got to the name first. I enjoy both Portals. :)
- squarefoot 8y ago
  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.
llao 8y ago
Here is a full playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxjHjFXvwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxjHjFXvwM
- mwcampbell 8y ago
  It even has a chiptune version of "Still Alive" at the end!
ArtWomb 8y ago
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.html https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm...
- AlphaWeaver 8y ago
  I was just about to comment about the TI Calculator version! Pretty cool and worth checking out as well.
erickhill 8y ago
C= 1351 mouse support! That's pretty rare (and awesome). Also great to see both PAL/NTSC supported at launch.
jwr 8y ago
This is mind-bogglingly awesome.
andrepd 8y ago
Reminds me of this! https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.html https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm... It's always pretty amazing to see these "demakes" on heavily constrained platforms.
lilgreenland 8y ago
There is a portal for everything... https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/
maa5444 8y ago
great useless effort .....
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white-flame 8y ago
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.

177 points by bane 8y ago

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.

stuaxo 8y ago
Similarly for BeebEm. Though RetroPie (even on an ordinary PC) is not bad.

Gazoo101 8y ago

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

ebcode 8y ago
What's your show?
- Gazoo101 8y ago
  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.
  - codetrotter 8y ago
    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 http://www.lasselaursen.com/interactive-interview an interactive interview http://www.lasselaursen.com/project/planmixplay 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 https://vimeo.com/25861552
    - Gazoo101 8y ago
      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?
      - codetrotter 8y ago
        Via your HN profile, on the submissions page, is where I found it :)
  - juangacovas 8y ago
    Offtopic, but just in case you didn't know about, http://remix.kwed.org/ http://remix.kwed.org/ is a great C64 music remixes site.
    - Gazoo101 8y ago
      It is indeed juangacovas - I use it readily for the show :)

SwellJoe 8y ago

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).

classichasclass 8y ago

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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(interactive_novel) I'm still looking forward to playing this one, though. :)

karmakaze 8y ago
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.
- tokyodude 8y ago
  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
- classichasclass 8y ago
  Sorry, I didn't make that clear: Activision got to the name first. I enjoy both Portals. :)
squarefoot 8y ago
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.

llao 8y ago

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

mwcampbell 8y ago
It even has a chiptune version of "Still Alive" at the end!

ArtWomb 8y ago

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

AlphaWeaver 8y ago
I was just about to comment about the TI Calculator version! Pretty cool and worth checking out as well.

erickhill 8y ago

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

jwr 8y ago

This is mind-bogglingly awesome.

andrepd 8y ago

Reminds me of this! https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.html https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm... It's always pretty amazing to see these "demakes" on heavily constrained platforms.

lilgreenland 8y ago

There is a portal for everything... https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43690666/

maa5444 8y ago

great useless effort .....

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white-flame 8y ago

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.