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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes i read headlines and i only go:

What?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Nice way to chain unrelated features together to make something more than it was before. I'm bookmarking this video in case I'm ever asked "what is hacking."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

This is horrifying and impressive in equal measure. Thanks for sharing, OP

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

As someone with a lot of web backend engineering experience, this had me yelling at the screen at a few points, but really cool nonetheless.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 14 points 3 days ago

Worth it just to be able to put at the bottom of a website in small print, this site hosted on portal 2.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

That's cursed, I love it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This makes me sad that the only way I can play Portal (or Portal 2) is in a 32-bit VM. a 64-bit remake would be so awesome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It natively runs on Linux though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Would it make that much of a difference? I doubt you'd be pushing more performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

it was more about just being able to run it on osx again since they (Apple) removed 32-bit support some time ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I guess if you're using a system that's a bit on the low end of portals system requirements, removing the requirement of running a VM might have some noticeable effect, that's a pretty niche problem though...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

There a source port of at least portal 1.

https://github.com/AruMoon/source-engine

Here's the active fork of the original project. Going through the issues of the original project, it seems to have support for building for 64 bit platforms.

No portal 2 support though. Although mentioned in the issues of nileusr's repo is this: https://github.com/EpicSentry/P2ASW , which is interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You don't need JS to refresh the page. Well, we call it Affenformular in german, no clue what it's in english. But it's a learning exercise type thing, pretty basic.

[–] Pika 1 points 3 days ago

I feel like the Interloper project addressed something similar to this. Man that's a great rabbit hole.