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First post, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2014-10-05, 03:08

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I recreated the famous Portal ending credits in a C program including 80x43 text mode and Sound blaster support
and outputs it to an old amber monochrome monitor. Just like the original sequence was suppose to be as if it it were on a mono monitor

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For those not in the know "Portal" is a video game from 2007 that has a famous ending sequence featuring the antagonist GLaDOS singing "Still Alive" and displaying lyrics and credits on
a fake amber/orange screen.

Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo28IvR1Vcc&feature=youtu.be

Reply 1 of 9, by KT7AGuy

Posted on 2014-10-05, 05:10

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Thanks! I enjoyed that! I wish I could have seen the monitor screen a bit closer/clearer.

Reply 2 of 9, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2014-10-05, 16:11

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KT7AGuy wrote:
Thanks! I enjoyed that! I wish I could have seen the monitor screen a bit closer/clearer.

Yeah thanks. I do need a better camera but as it is its hard to get good results

Reply 3 of 9, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2014-10-06, 08:04

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That's brilliant.

When I saw that, I reminded me of a guy that did a similar thing using an Altair clone and some serial terminals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBiIr-bFiKM

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Reply 4 of 9, by obobskivich

Posted on 2014-10-06, 08:57

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Ha, that's awesome! 😎 Can't imagine how long this took you though... 😲

Reply 5 of 9, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2014-10-06, 18:46

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SquallStrife wrote:
That's brilliant.

When I saw that, I reminded me of a guy that did a similar thing using an Altair clone and some serial terminals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBiIr-bFiKM

Thanks!

He is one of my subscriptions so I saw that. In fact that kind of encouraged me to do this.

On my version my goal was to recreate the whole thing including the lyric window on the left, the credits on the right-top and the ASCII art in the bottom-right as well as playing back and syncing to the original audio.
Luckily it all fit just perfectly in 80x43 mode. I could not do that in 80x25 mode.

Ha, that's awesome! 😎 Can't imagine how long this took you though...

It took a while. Over 8 hours mainly fixing bugs and tweaking timing.
But it was fun to see

Reply 6 of 9, by Firtasik

Posted on 2014-10-06, 21:15

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This was a triumph...

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Reply 7 of 9, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2014-10-07, 01:31

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Firtasik wrote:
This was a triumph...

Hey sounds like I brought some Portal fans out of the woodwork 😉

Thanks!

Reply 8 of 9, by MrEWhite

Posted on 2014-10-12, 21:30

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Huge success 😀

Reply 9 of 9, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2014-10-13, 04:26

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MrEWhite wrote:
Huge success 😀

😎 GLaD you think so 😀

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