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Title: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: Goblin Cat 😸 on May 14, 2010, 08:53:03 PM
Get your free copy of Portal for the PC from SteamPowered.com.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

It'll be free until May 24th!
Title: Re: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: Buddywolf on May 15, 2010, 07:11:17 PM
twas a really great game! I love the ending song...still alive.
Title: Re: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: Asia Kali Yusufzai on May 15, 2010, 07:22:41 PM
The trailer for the deal, Steam on Mac, and a reminder of Portal 2 is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj1fYlwR00&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj1fYlwR00&feature=player_embedded)

Featuring the wonderful woman herself, Ellen McLain as GlaDOS
Title: Re: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: White Wolf Guardian on May 15, 2010, 08:49:02 PM
Ohhh nice <3. Unfortunately I bought the Orange Box long ago D:

I will definitely buy Portal 2 when it comes out.
Title: Re: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: Yugian on May 17, 2010, 01:55:19 AM
So much luv from valve! Thanks much!~
Title: Re: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: WingedZephyr on May 17, 2010, 06:32:38 AM
Yeah, I love how they're celebrating Portal for Mac and yet it tells me my Mac OS isn't good enough to run it.

Luckily I can still run it on my laptop.
Title: Re: Free Copy of Portal~
Post by: flames on May 18, 2010, 03:33:22 PM
Quote from: WingedZephyr on May 17, 2010, 06:32:38 AM
Yeah, I love how they're celebrating Portal for Mac and yet it tells me my Mac OS isn't good enough to run it.

Luckily I can still run it on my laptop.
The Mac port of Steam and the source engine (with no disrespect to Valve) could have been a lot better from what I've gathered. Part of it is Apple's fault as a lot of their graphics card drivers aren't up to standard but the source engine was optimised for use with DirectX rather than OpenGL, which is what just about everything (Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, some games consoles) uses so they had to move it to OpenGL for the Mac port...and the results could have been better.
They also haven't designed it well for running on Mac OS X anyway as it ignores a lot of design and functionality expectations from what I hear and it leaves a lot of things running in the background that really shouldn't, massively impacting gaming performance.

It's a shame but ironically running the windows version of steam using Crossover or Darwine may actually result in more speed on some games :(