o00o Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 get it while it's currently free: http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/ Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide o00o's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 finally! Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) mac support launched today, linux on the way. <3 you valve. Edited May 12, 2010 by kaini Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Thanks for the info, will download. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 valve are the last remaining mainstream game developers with souls. this is awesome Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ms-dos Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? Edited May 13, 2010 by ms-dos Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:00 AM, ms-dos said: i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? if you're referring to whether Portal is still free after 24th May, yes it is. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide oscillik's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:00 AM, ms-dos said: i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? portal is perhaps the best game of the last ten years imo so it's a good starting point, trust me :) Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:02 AM, kaini said: On 5/13/2010 at 12:00 AM, ms-dos said: i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? portal is perhaps the best game of the last ten years imo so it's a good starting point, trust me :) that's the problem. if you start with Portal, you're gonna be in for a bit of a disappointment when you find out that not every game is as brilliant as Portal. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide oscillik's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:05 AM, oscillik said: On 5/13/2010 at 12:02 AM, kaini said: On 5/13/2010 at 12:00 AM, ms-dos said: i'm pretty clueless with this stuff, but i would like to spend more of my life playing computer games. is this a service that we'll have to pay for once the free period ends? any game recommendations? i'm not really into the fps genre... does that rule everything out? portal is perhaps the best game of the last ten years imo so it's a good starting point, trust me :) that's the problem. if you start with Portal, you're gonna be in for a bit of a disappointment when you find out that not every game is as brilliant as Portal. that's when you start working your way through the HL2 series and get TF2 :) Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Is HL2 or the Too Orangey for Crows Box or whatever it's called available for mac yet? Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:16 AM, baph said: Is HL2 or the Too Orangey for Crows Box or whatever it's called available for mac yet? probably next wednesday... Valve are releasing more games every following wednesday Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide oscillik's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 I love portal Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide jeremymacgregor87's signature Hide all signatures profundity Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 4gig, fucking hell Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide jeremymacgregor87's signature Hide all signatures profundity Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:26 AM, verticalhold said: 4gig, fucking hell you probably have to download components of the source engine too? if you have other source games installed, will probably be less. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Edit Hide Delete Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) I'm very curious to see what they are going to do for a linux version of Steam. Ports of source-engine games would be utterly amazing. Should be possible since they apparently got the source engine running on OpenGL now. Valve is doing great things to keep PC gaming alive. Edited May 13, 2010 by Ego Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Heh, I don't even know if I can run portal on my late '07 MBP. Such is the state of mac gaming that I no longer remember what discrete nvidia card I have, although I think I maxed everything out (or rather, those things that were sensible to max out via apple.com). This is going to be a slow afternoon until I can get home and open System Profiler. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:32 AM, baph said: Heh, I don't even know if I can run portal on my late '07 MBP. Such is the state of mac gaming that I no longer remember what discrete nvidia card I have, although I think I maxed everything out (or rather, those things that were sensible to max out via apple.com). This is going to be a slow afternoon until I can get home and open System Profiler. i could run it on an older celeron computer so i bet you can. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide GORDO's signature Hide all signatures ZOMG! Lazerz pew pew pew!!!!11!!1!!!!1!oneone!shift+one!~!!! Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:32 AM, baph said: Heh, I don't even know if I can run portal on my late '07 MBP. Such is the state of mac gaming that I no longer remember what discrete nvidia card I have, although I think I maxed everything out (or rather, those things that were sensible to max out via apple.com). This is going to be a slow afternoon until I can get home and open System Profiler. probably Nvidia 128MB or 256MB card, can't remember which one though. it'd probably run, although i've heard reports of having to dial down graphics options even on the latest portables Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide oscillik's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) On 5/13/2010 at 12:29 AM, Ego said: I'm very curious to see what they are going to do for a linux version of Steam. Ports of source-engine games would be utterly amazing. Should be possible since they apparently got the source engine running on OpenGL now. Valve is doing great things to keep PC gaming alive. i'm imagining similar to what iD did for doom 3 linux - the map files remain the same. doom 3 linux just required you to purchase a pc copy and then you could download the linux engine for free and copy the map files over. i reckon it'll be a sort of similar setup with steam. can't see them open-sourcing jack shit though, lol. so possibly something like only red hat and debian derivatives supported? Edited May 13, 2010 by kaini Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ms-dos Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 oh shit, i was confusing portal and steam. i'm going to give this a shot. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/12/2010 at 11:56 PM, vamos scorcho said: valve are the last remaining mainstream game developers with souls. this is awesome I don't know about that, waiting for HL2:EP3 is damn near killing me. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide tec's signature Hide all signatures "They're about guns, lasers, robots with laser guns in space. Monsters from the future. Explosions. Sylvester Stallone doing a backflip on top of a spike while Robocop carries a ghost up a mountain. Bombs and swords and that... IDM is awesome." Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 nice.. downloading now. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 On 5/13/2010 at 12:53 AM, tec said: On 5/12/2010 at 11:56 PM, vamos scorcho said: valve are the last remaining mainstream game developers with souls. this is awesome I don't know about that, waiting for HL2:EP3 is damn near killing me. at this point i'm more looking forward to Portal 2. i can't believe they announced it so fucking early. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide oscillik's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Edit Hide Delete Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) On 5/13/2010 at 12:36 AM, kaini said: On 5/13/2010 at 12:29 AM, Ego said: I'm very curious to see what they are going to do for a linux version of Steam. Ports of source-engine games would be utterly amazing. Should be possible since they apparently got the source engine running on OpenGL now. Valve is doing great things to keep PC gaming alive. i'm imagining similar to what iD did for doom 3 linux - the map files remain the same. doom 3 linux just required you to purchase a pc copy and then you could download the linux engine for free and copy the map files over. i reckon it'll be a sort of similar setup with steam. can't see them open-sourcing jack shit though, lol. so possibly something like only red hat and debian derivatives supported? I'm hoping it would be a little more seamless. It's rumored (or maybe confirmed?) they'd bring Steam to Linux so that takes care of distribution and installation of the games. Sure, closed-source binaries are largely not distributed through the official repositories. But something like Steam would certainly be added to repositories like Medibuntu or AUR in a matter of hours. And if they're working on getting the source engine working on a wide variety of platforms I'm sure they'd be able to cope with a generic X/ALSA and Nvidia closed-source drivers. I'm reading some reviews of the OSX port and am very impressed that it is visually equivalent to the DirectX version on Windows. EDIT: Yeah it is confirmed. This is amazing. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1 Edited May 13, 2010 by Ego Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/56217-free-portal/#findComment-1323546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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