Turning Portal 2 into a Web Server (www.youtube.com)
from freddo@feddit.nu to technology@lemmy.world on 28 May 20:21
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Feddinat0r@feddit.org on 28 May 20:32 next collapse

Sometimes i read headlines and i only go:

What?

samus12345@lemm.ee on 28 May 22:20 collapse
sevon@lemmy.kde.social on 28 May 20:54 next collapse

That’s cursed, I love it.

Technus@lemmy.zip on 28 May 21:14 next collapse

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.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 28 May 21:38 next collapse

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.”

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 28 May 21:56 next collapse

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

anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca on 28 May 22:33 next collapse

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.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 28 May 23:23 next collapse

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

Venator@lemmy.nz on 29 May 02:19 next collapse

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…

anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca on 29 May 22:40 collapse

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

moonpiedumplings@programming.dev on 29 May 02:44 next collapse

There a source port of at least portal 1.

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: github.com/EpicSentry/P2ASW , which is interesting

TheBat@lemmy.world on 29 May 03:36 collapse

It natively runs on Linux though.

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net on 28 May 23:35 next collapse

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

Pika@sh.itjust.works on 29 May 05:36 next collapse

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

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 29 May 08:52 collapse

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.