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Portal

by Rob Swigart · first published 1988

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  • classichasclass · Feb 15, 2024 · Recommends

    I enjoyed Portal on the C64, so much so that I actually wrote Rob Swigart when I was toying with making a recreation of the virtual world it depicted. He thought it sounded like a fun project and even sent me a copy of…

    on “Portal (2021)” ↗
  • lotharrr · Sep 11, 2017 · Mentions

    There's an ebook version floating around, which will give you at least the story (if not the somewhat-interactive way of discovering it). Search for "Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval, by Rob Swigart". The author approved of it being uploaded to a forum (in .lrf form, which I was somehow able to convert to PDF) here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37197…

    on “Remembering 'Portal,' Activision's Interactive Novel” ↗

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