Free Portal

[Zanghfei]

WHY LEOPARD ONLY!!!! !! SO FRUSTRATING

[Løki]

More like, why intel only? D:

[kiddten]

doesn't surprise me that it is intel only.

[Zanghfei]

More like, why intel only? D:

PPC is cheaper than Intel?

[crazyshroom]

Portal isn't working for me. All the whites are black in the game.

[kiddten]

you managed to get it? my steams trying to download it for 2 1/2 days

[Løki]

I just downloaded it on a friends laptop within 2 hours o-O

[Pielogist]

after 2 days. it worked!
A little laggy, a little weird colors. But it works and it works good enough to play~

[kiddten]

finaly started downloading after 3 days XD

[Kayar]

I've got Steam, but I'm going to need another 2000 MB of space to download Portal.

[Amy]

Beat Portal.

Creepiest game i played tied with Bioshock.

[Kayar]

Creepiest game i played tied with Bioshock.

I find that quite sad.

[Løki]

^I agree o_O
Portal was one of the funniest games I've ever played.
Replay it and listen to GLaDOS's words of hilarity.

[Kayar]

Just finished the portal download and played through some of it. We need to figure out how to mod it, anyone smart take a look at it in hex yet?

Edit: Eh... Hexedit tells me it can't get the file info... is this because it runs through Steam? Obviously I am not one of those I mentioned above, the "anyone smart..."

Edit Edit:

"GameInfo"
{
game "Portal"
title "Portal"
type singleplayer_only
nodifficulty 1
hasportals 1
FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 400 // This will mount all the GCFs we need (240=CS:S, 220=HL2).
ToolsAppId 211 // Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to get things like materials\debug, materials\editor, etc.

//
// The code that loads this file automatically does a few things here:
//
// 1. For each "Game" search path, it adds a "GameBin" path, in <dir>\bin
// 2. For each "Game" search path, it adds another "Game" path in front of it with _<langage> at the end.
// For example: c:\hl2\cstrike on a french machine would get a c:\hl2\cstrike_french path added to it.
// 3. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "MOD".
// 4. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "DEFAULT_WRITE_PATH".
//

//
// Search paths are relative to the base directory, which is where hl2.exe is found.
//
// |gameinfo_path| points at the directory where gameinfo.txt is.
// We always want to mount that directory relative to gameinfo.txt, so
// people can mount stuff in c:\mymod, and the main game resources are in
// someplace like c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\half-life 2.
//
SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game portal
Game hl2
}
}
}

Steam's system for loading the game?

"GameState"
{
"1"
{
"id" "115"
"value" "1"
"hud" "0"
"msg" "0"
}
"2"
{
"id" "116"
"value" "1"
"hud" "0"
"msg" "0"
}
"3"
{
"id" "146"
"value" "0"
"data" "12"
"hud" "0"
"msg" "1"
}
"4"
{
"id" "148"
"value" "1"
"hud" "0"
"msg" "0"
}
}

I'll take a shot in the dark here and say that "gamestate" is the same as "savestate..."

On the other hand, we open the "SAVE" folder and find a screenshot of where I last was when I saved and a bunch of obvious save files...

And then we have that maps folder, with .cache and .manifest files. And at this point I can go no further.

[kiddten]

from my (little) experience with the source engine, the only thing we can do is add maps, until we get the source sdk.
i haven't checked yet, but is there a folder in portal somewhere called maps? and in that folder some stuff with a .bsp extension?
if so, we can get extra maps off here: http://www.portalgamemaps.com/