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Subject: Re: Portal (was: Re: HACKER)
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 01:45:45 GMT
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ind02195@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Michael Boissy) wrote:

>>[...] If you really want to talk about exotic concept games, how about
>>Portal.  Its not really a game.  Its called a computer novel and I
>>don't think anything has ever come close to matching it.  I'm not sure
>>it was ever made for any other machine but the C=64.  If anyone knows
>>differently let me know.

Jonathan Badger <badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>Well, there was both an Apple ][ version and a MS-DOS version as
>well. I purchased the MS-DOS version used a couple of months ago at a
>used software store for $5 but couldn't get it to work -- either the
>disks went bad (it was after all ten years old) or it gets confused
>because my machine is so fast (it was designed for an XT with
>CGA). I'd like to see this game on one of the emulator sites, as I
>really want to play this "game".
>
>As I recall, because it really was more of a hypertext novel than a
>game, a book version came out too.

Yup.  Took me *forever* to find the novelized version, which was far more 
fluid and easier to follow.  I had it on my C-64, but never found the 
MS-DOS version, which is why I finally went all-out in located the 
Swigart novel.

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