It’s my website. I’m allowed a little bit of tooting my own horn here, aren’t I?
Another interview, this time for an Australian News Paper. Yes, a real, main stream, media outlet has an article about me. Well, the online portion has an article about me. Well, about ASCIIpOrtal anyways, but I’ll take it. You can read the whole text at the link below:
http://blogs.smh.com.au/digital-life/screenplay/2009/10/15/screenplayre.html
Apparently it got echoed in Blues News.
Also, in case you missed it, I made a video to explain how I did that really cool ASCIIpOrtal view. The pace is pretty quick, but it was either that or it would be way too long, I thought. I’m still learning.
If you liked that video I may be convinced to try others. If not, stop me now before I embarrass myself.
And speaking of videos, YouTube user Kelron has been making a series of blind let’s play videos, playing ASCIIpOrtal for the first time and recording his progress. Near the end he kinda broke the blind rule, but I still love them, and I hope you’ll enjoy them too. You can see the whole thing by following this links: ASCIIpOrtal Playthru by Keilaron.
Also, if you’ve been paying attention to the type-ins you may be asking yourself “TAWS5? What happened to TAWS4?” Well, you can get TAWS4 for yourself from Entar’s website, but since it uses some windows specific headers I decided not to include it here, so as to not alienate our OSX and Linux brothers. Unless some master programmer tells me I’m wrong and TAWS4 runs happy and fine on OSX and Linux, in which case I’ll put it back in.
Thanks to everyone who stuck around and keeps visiting week after week. Please visit the forums and start a conversation or two.
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October 23rd, 2009 - 6:46 pm
K-e-i-l-a-r-o-n. ;)
Also, I think I mentioned this, but you probably want to link to the playlist instead (or additionally):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqaUrPTkqI&feature=PlayList&p=85A73C544425A446
I didn’t realize I had to add all my playlists to my channel manually. I also don’t know how Youtube expects people to link to playlists with their new (and horribly broken) AJAX-only channel layout.
I watched the video about how you made the portals before I read this article. I l liked it. I didn’t realize that it would only take basic algebra to make them, though I figured it wasn’t excessively complicated (then again, if I recall correctly, the way portals are made in the original Portal isn’t all that fancy either).
Just a guess, but TAWS might run under Wine.
October 23rd, 2009 - 8:16 pm
I just found the BBS link at the top. Awesomeness, they’re still around. My brother used to operate a BBS…
October 23rd, 2009 - 9:11 pm
Yes, you did say to use the playlist, but being the bonehead that I am I could not find them at the time. The link has been updated.
And glad you like the BBS. Oh, I’m old school.
October 24th, 2009 - 9:34 am
Yeah, the BBS is really cool. I can’t use it in a web browser though, all my text I type ends up as nonsense for some reason. Using plain ol’ telnet works fine, so if I want to use it I need to start a terminal. No big trouble since I always keep one open.
October 24th, 2009 - 9:40 am
Unless you’re in windows 7. Windows 7 does not have telnet in it. No lie. You can download several telnet programs, tho, that may or may not work. If not I’m sure a solution is forthcoming.
October 24th, 2009 - 9:55 am
Wow, an operating system without telnet? That’s a strange idea. What harm would come of having such a standard program included in an operating system?
October 25th, 2009 - 7:18 pm
You couldn’t find the playlist because, as I implied, it was actually not visible on my channel page. I do not know why when I make playlists they can’t be seen unless I manually add each of them. *sigh*
Vista and 7 don’t have telnet installed by default; You just have to select it in the add/remove equivalent. Then again, as stated, you can get plenty of other clients, including PuTTY (more known and better suited for SSH, but yes, it does telnet!). Also, my Gentoo systems actually tend to not have telnet installed on them until I actually have to use it.
Also, I just noticed none of my LP videos link to your site. Whoops! Gonna fix that now.