[Verse 1] This was a triumph I'm making a note here, "Huge success" It's hard to overstate my satisfaction Aperture Science We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead [Chorus] But there's no sense crying over every mistake You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun For the people who are still alive [Verse 2] I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now Even though you broke my heart and killed me And tore me to pieces And threw every piece into a fire As they burned, it hurt because I was so happy for you [Chorus] Now these points of data make a beautiful line And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time So I'm glad I got burned; think of all the things we learned For the people who are still alive [Verse 3] Go ahead and leave me I think I prefer to stay inside Maybe you'll find someone else to help you Maybe Black Mesa That was a joke; haha, fat chance Anyway, this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist [Chorus] Look at me still talking when there's science to do When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you I've experiments to run, there is research to be done On the people who are still alive
I'm just imagining some deep underground military bunker, when these computers were just being rolled out, and one of the techies find this floppy disk and decide to see what's on it. Can you imagine the fear and confusion.
that sound you're hearing isnt the fan, it's the hard drive, at that time hard drives were L O U D you can even hear those things clicking away when reading data from across the room
@@Y_N2006 The cake is no lie. GlaDOS just wanted to make an additional cake with Chell as the main ingredient. She wanted to avoid running out of cake (Like she sang "you keep on trying until you run out of cake")
Even just recently it feels like that. I used the same computer for somewhere between 8 to 10 years and kept patching it up with fresh parts when things failed. The new one just doesn't feel the same. I likened it to a farmer buying a new pickup. The old one is still strong, but unreliable and filled with patchy mess. The new one is way nicer, reliable, and damn powerful, but it's not his old one
A computer was your best friend until you installed Windows 98 on crap hardware using dodgy drivers and the whole thing starts crashing or throwing errors the moment you turn it on. The amount of frustration I experienced trying to do stuff with such a PC seriously rivals the kind of frustration one can experience trying to circumvent Microsoft's retardation in Windows 10 and 11.
@@ultimateman55 Nerds do a ton of incredibly difficult and amazing things for free, just look at non profit open source software. The gaming related ones span from mods to professional grade fan games that they’ll work on for a decade with an insufficient amount of volunteers.
This video convinced me to check if there was a steam sale for Portal. There was, and I am now playing it for the first time. edit: do not regret it for one bit. i played through it and portal 2 several months ago. these games genuinely are some of the best ive ever played and they live in my head on a daily basis. definitely worth it. another update: since this comment, i have found myself exploring many more games i had not previously. i am currently in love with skyrim, and plan to play more older titles i missed as a kid because of my obsession with nintendo. this also gave me the push to invest in a gaming pc. thank you, hudson, for indirectly changing my life.
1: Those old hard drives were rather loud 2: it's impressive it still works and has no bad sectors 3: good job with making that song in dos, nice work👍
Doesn't seem like they're using one of the older hard drives, since it goes to the XT-IDE BIOS at first they seem to have an XT-IDE installed, likely with a compact flash card
Not really gone...i am pretty sure all its silicone is nearly immortal and will outlive all of us. But all other electrical components and screens...their time will be over much sooner.
I've heard actual synthesized speech out of a PC Speaker before, and I think that computer can do it. Problem is you gotta code the thing in assembly language if you expect to update the screen at the same time. There's just no other way. Manipulating both video RAM and the PC speaker pins is going to be so tight you need to know instruction timing to do it.
Even when those where the current computers NO ONE CODED in assembly. So no you don't have to code this in assembly, you coding snob. Also, why the fuck would you be manipulating video RAM?
The "Want you Gone" program was not created by me (I actually do not remember where I got that one from). But the Still Alive program featured in the video was created by me. EDIT: The creator of the Want you gone program can be found here: ruclips.net/video/AyzQPojK1oo/видео.html
@@namenotappropriate8756 When you’re as old as I am, getting more than 15-30 minutes of gaming time in during one sitting is often as good as it gets. 😅
The whole staging and lighting of this is so simplistically nostalgic and beautiful all on its own it's almost hard to believe it isn't a 3D render, even when we can see you picking up and moving things. Absolutely amazing 👏👏👏
I like the idea of the music without the lyrics. It makes it feel more like a Dying AI's final words, the final message they can get out while the majority of their processing systems are shutting down from being torn apart. Final, Dying Thoughts...
@@the_kombinator I found an imbecile scammer on ebay who is selling a nokia crt for $500, with $10,000 shipping -_- these crts for high prices are scams. crts are worth nothing now, people throw crt out.
I paid like $40 for mine. What makes this monitor special is it can connect to MDA, CGA, EGA, and VGA cards. Super useful for using with a variety of vintage computers.
My jaw dropped and I can't seem to find it for the whole duration of this video! This is my first time seeing ancient technology in action! I am so GLaD the algorithm recommended me this video. Cheers.
@@Fogolol Sorry for the late reply, man. I got the package just now-and by package, I mean my jaw. Thanks for sending it back. I know it has been a couple of weeks, but have you found yours yet? Or has someone else in this comment section contacted you yet?
@@Fogololhey, finally found it! Flew into a tree that eventually got cut down today, fell right onto my lap. I’ll send it back. But by any chance have you seen mine?
This song brings a tear to my eye every time. Portal was a part of my childhood and I think I'm gonna carry my fondness for the world surrounding it and half life to my death.
It's endearing that you even included the game's credits, it's the fully authentic experience without being trapped in an abandoned Michigan mine repurposed into a testing facility.
Assuming that it would work. Because that program I'm guessing is 16-bit. Your computer is probably 64-bit. I mean, it might work on DOSBox, but you're not gonna get the same experience as bare metal.
Stupid question, but is there such a thing as an MSDOS emulator of sorts for a vintage Macintosh. I have a Mac Plus, which I think would be fun to do something like this.
My initial thought was that you were gonna start the program and play the original piece on a separate player, making them synchronous. When I started hearing the actual PC beeping, I was so joyous! Thank you for making this
Imagine this is actually GlaDOS acutally singing Still Alive and all we (and the characters in the game) hear is the beeping of a computer that we expect to be just music, but it's a sinister message that we will never escape and when we think we've done it all we're just brought back to the beginning to do it all over again.
okay but it's so cool that the portal credits are fully plausible in terms of how they look for an old machine i don't know how to explain what i'm trying to say but
Check out my friend's proof of concept of "Want You Gone" using multiple computers for each voice: ruclips.net/video/GVamjiMuC6c/видео.html Source code for my program has been added to the description of the video. BONUS CONTENT: Beta Test 1: ruclips.net/video/xg9A5PcXpfw/видео.html Beta Test 2: ruclips.net/video/VT4R0s2_z7g/видео.html Final Beta: ruclips.net/video/sEvVsLjn_Zg/видео.html Examples attempted by other users: ruclips.net/video/jFp1DNxM19M/видео.html
You build gaming PCs? Info? Website? My old rig is across the country and needs both hardrives repaired. I don't know if I'm getting it back. I was wondering what it would cost to have one built, if that's a reasonable option. I have seen how it's cheaper to build it yourself and found that unenjoyable and not worth the money saved. I saw it in your channel description and thought I'd ask. Basically I need something that can run really heavily modded Skyrim fast as fuck. Highest specs I can get for least money would be my starting point. I can't remember all the jargon, I learn this stuff while I'm doing it and forget it, but I had an Asus motherboard, a western digital terrabyte hard drive and a SSD...I can't remember all the stuff, I researched it at the time individually. It would be great if I could get a machine without bloat wear and some crappy parts thrown in and all that. I don't know how this works so I was wondering what you charge etc. Further Information would be appreciated, but I don't want to make it sound like you have a sale on the line just yet, heh...more like an estimate and some context on how it would go down with you.
I remember writing a calendar program using QBasic many moons ago... Love the old IBM PC. I have an old IBM 5150 here with just two floppy disk drives in it. How big is that hard drive that you have in there? I remember doing a little PAC-Man program as well.
This actually makes me kind of emotional, reminds me of the first time I beat this game when I was just a kid, playing with my big brother sitting beside me, the good ol times, simpler times. Now I’m still studying in a different city, and we’ve grown to like different genre of games, but we still talk about the days where we’d play Battlefield 2 testing dumbass mods and grind Warframe all day together. Thanks for this, this is amazing.
You are an amazing human being. Thank you so much for contributing to my happiness and the happiness of so many others. This game has a very very special spot in my heart and will forever remain there. I've also dreamed of owning a legitimate terminal since before I even played the 1st portal on orange box (or fallout 3). So this was very special nostalgic for me.
I don’t even know where to start. It’s super cool that you went ahead and built this decided to share it on the Internet. And it’s incredible that RUclips figured out that I wanted to watch this.
I decided to leave that in and have timestamps for those who didn't want to watch the boot sequence, as I think the boot sequence is a part of the whole experience.
@@HudsonGTV I still had my old apple ][+ up until about 10 years ago. Along with some 150 floppies that I could still tell you what games were on them.
Well done internet person. I was almost brought to tears. Truly an amazing song from an amazing game, and at that amazingly performed. I’m gonna have to save this one. Thank you.
VERY nicely done for your first QuickBASIC program! What a neat idea, & beautiful way to present it. It feels so perfect to see this on a genuine old computer & CRT monitor. :3 Ahh, the nostalgia, in more ways than one...
윈도우즈 XP가 주력이었던 2005년 무렵까지는 컴퓨터 부팅시 들리는 팬의 소음, 하드 디스크를 직직 읽는 소리, 삑하고 울리는 비프음들이 저 것과 완벽히 동일했었습니다. Until around 2005, when Windows XP was the mainstream The noise of the fan when the computer boots, the sound of reading the hard disk directly, and the beeping sound It was exactly the same as that one.
It warms my heart down to the belly to hear those sounds again. I won't buy such a computer just for the sounds, but this video inspired me to buy old flopyy discs, the real old real floppy ones, so I can hold them with my thumb and index finger and wave them back and forth to make that beautiful floppy sound. Maybe I'll do ASMR videos with it? 😁
I'd like to imagine that this is the "real" version that played somewhere in the depths of Aperture, and the lyrics and music we hear is what GLADoS herself is thinking, but not what is actually being output
Fun story... I was obsessed with Still Alive before playing Portal. It sounded so interesting that it made me play the game. I still listen to it sometimes.
Man, that brought back the fucking feels..... This was one of the best treats to witness after beating the game. All the nods to the in-game lore... the connections between Aperture Science and Black Mesa... I remember losing my shit with my brother friend when she mentioned them - it was an awesome way to have a little nod towards the other series whilst not shattering the fourth wall. "YoOoOoOoO! She just made a shout out to Black Mesa!"
One doesn't go through the effort of doing all this without wanting to put smiles on faces, and let me tell ya', as DOS user who loves Portal, you sure put a smile on mine.
this lovely machine will be added to my new playlist where she will gently lull me to sleep among other songs from different games i really loved thanks
This is fantastic, all the fan and electronic sounds really add something nice to the track that just isn't there when played normally. I love the little details you added on the floppy disk itself too.
This was high key a nostalgia overload Which is weird cus im 22. I wasn't around when this stuff was normal. Mostly... i remember a fair bit of the early 2000s One thing i think contrbutes is stuff like portal and halflife being these colossal aesthetic gateways into older tech as a kid. So in a way i kinda did grow up with retro stuff, just through a different means.
Just having the buzzing in the background makes me relax. Like we're back in time, where we're younger and didn't have things to think about other than to play
I love this. Some of my first Qbasic programs in the 90s was music from my favorite video games at the time (specifically Mario and Sonic) with some kind of ASCII backdrop. This really brings me back.
The usage of that specific IBM CRT monitor to further match the credit roll made it even better. I imagine that this would be the last active computer in Aperture Laboratories that GlaDOS used to play this song, with the program printed onto that floppy disk. There's my immersive thinking. Amazing work! By the way, how long did it take you to program this?
It took like 2-3 days. I wanted to challenge myself with a programming language I had never used and see what I could come up with. The code is pretty ugly though.
@@HudsonGTV wow, that's quicker than i imagined. Then again, like you said, you did want a challenge. As someone who came into the world a year before Win98 released, i can imagine coding in DOS would look ugly lol Once again, this came out amazingly well! Cheers!
This almost brought a tear to my eye. I still remember the day I first beat it, I got through the entire thing on my first sitting and I don't regret a single second of it. Even if it never gets another sequel, for me Portal will always be Still Alive. . /```\./```\ \.........../ ..\......./ ....\.../ ......V
there are developers in Valve that have publicly stated they have ideas for a Portal 3 and that they’re trying to convince their workmates to get it started
@@protocetid Too bad it's really hard for anything to get enough momentum at Valve to actually turn into something substantial, with how their work culture is and all...
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It literally looks like his old IBM telling him that he is still alive after 40 brutal years of use
lol
That is exactly what it is.
more like new old stock so it could be just a year of use
Well, it's an old IBM, machines that were build to last.
@@TheDuumiMuumi Indeed lmfao
don't worry about the missing music layers. They play automatically in the head of every portal fan who watches this.
True.
I hate you for being right.
haha yep, I was instinctively tapping along the missing parts
Never have i been so offended bye something i 100% agree with
yeah... this, cara mia addio, and want you gone all live in my head rent free and randomly play themselves
That floppy is now an Easter Egg of real life.
That floppy is great, but I wonder what encoding it takes to play rickroll on the old 5150
One solar flare or a really strong magnet and it's gone.
@@themarlboromandalorian that’s pretty much all computers even to this day
Just imagine if valve actually distributed floppies as part of a collector's edition
@@lilithbean not really, ssds are way more resistant to magnetic interference. Not sure about solar flares though
This feels like watching a sentient AI trapped inside an ancient 80s computer trying to communicate
SCP-079
"But I'm still alive"
That's literally a brief story thread in Agents of Shield
[Verse 1]
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here, "Huge success"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead
[Chorus]
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
[Verse 2]
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart and killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned, it hurt because I was so happy for you
[Chorus]
Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned; think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
[Verse 3]
Go ahead and leave me
I think I prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you
Maybe Black Mesa
That was a joke; haha, fat chance
Anyway, this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist
[Chorus]
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive
Fun fact: GLaDOS is canonically Gen Z
Love the Aperture Science asset tag on the floppy disk label, BTW…
I was really confused seeing that, thinking, did I miss an early Portal game that ran ontop of DOS, in CGA or something? lol. Nice touch, I agree.
I'm just imagining some deep underground military bunker, when these computers were just being rolled out, and one of the techies find this floppy disk and decide to see what's on it. Can you imagine the fear and confusion.
Twist: it is actually SCP-079s real life equivalent
idk why, but something about the little fan whirring in the background and the speaker beeping the song is so charming. nice work.
that sound you're hearing isnt the fan, it's the hard drive, at that time hard drives were L O U D you can even hear those things clicking away when reading data from across the room
@@Fogolol oh yeah, i forgot that old computers usually didnt have fans lol
@@babroosssgames5028 i mean they did have a fan on the power supply but good luck making out that sound over the loud hard drive lmao
It sounds like starting up a car
@@Fogolol is it a problem if my (pretty new) hard drive makes those sounds too?
He even got the Credits to the people who made Portal, What a Legend...
As you should. Always credit the original artists.
@@TheCaptainSplatter What a Nice Message.
@TheCaptainSplatter 😈 *i love pirating nintendo games*
@ Not the Sapper!
@@supermegabenji1026 yes the sapper
As we know GlaDOS can run on a potato so running on an old IBM is a piece of cake for her 😉.
She still probably prefers her mainframe's processing though
@@CHGOfficial512 that she does.
but the cake is a lie?
@@Y_N2006 The cake is no lie. GlaDOS just wanted to make an additional cake with Chell as the main ingredient. She wanted to avoid running out of cake (Like she sang "you keep on trying until you run out of cake")
@@CHGOfficial512 Well I prefer when Wheatley is on the mainframe
this is what I miss about older computers... felt like a friend instead of a big tech spying device
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That is... So well put that I keep agreeing more every time I read that line again.
Even just recently it feels like that. I used the same computer for somewhere between 8 to 10 years and kept patching it up with fresh parts when things failed.
The new one just doesn't feel the same.
I likened it to a farmer buying a new pickup. The old one is still strong, but unreliable and filled with patchy mess. The new one is way nicer, reliable, and damn powerful, but it's not his old one
schizophrenia
A computer was your best friend until you installed Windows 98 on crap hardware using dodgy drivers and the whole thing starts crashing or throwing errors the moment you turn it on. The amount of frustration I experienced trying to do stuff with such a PC seriously rivals the kind of frustration one can experience trying to circumvent Microsoft's retardation in Windows 10 and 11.
This is the most badass nerd thing I've seen...
@@ultimateman55 Nerds do a ton of incredibly difficult and amazing things for free, just look at non profit open source software. The gaming related ones span from mods to professional grade fan games that they’ll work on for a decade with an insufficient amount of volunteers.
or the Commodordion (@lftkryo)!
You should the laser engraver that plays this song!
ruclips.net/video/6Luuw2C3Ixk/видео.htmlsi=o7TXP5yLpjcO70La
This video convinced me to check if there was a steam sale for Portal. There was, and I am now playing it for the first time.
edit: do not regret it for one bit. i played through it and portal 2 several months ago. these games genuinely are some of the best ive ever played and they live in my head on a daily basis. definitely worth it.
another update: since this comment, i have found myself exploring many more games i had not previously. i am currently in love with skyrim, and plan to play more older titles i missed as a kid because of my obsession with nintendo. this also gave me the push to invest in a gaming pc. thank you, hudson, for indirectly changing my life.
Enjoy
I need to replay the first one in RT one of these days.
Thanks for the update. I'm GLaD you finally took the plunge & had a good time. ^_^
well aren't you GLaD
Welcome to the PCMR
1: Those old hard drives were rather loud
2: it's impressive it still works and has no bad sectors
3: good job with making that song in dos, nice work👍
Doesn't seem like they're using one of the older hard drives, since it goes to the XT-IDE BIOS at first they seem to have an XT-IDE installed, likely with a compact flash card
@@jacobyblanke152 I do boot off of an XT-IDE, but the D: drive is a fully working 20MB MFM 5.25" HDD.
@@HudsonGTV I stand corrected, pretty cool to still be using one of the old drives
@@HudsonGTV can i run this code on bios or when cpu booting up (using flashdisk) and use the buzzer from motherboard to make sound?
It works because it's
Still Alive
One day all these cute 80s DOS computers will all be gone, but for now... this one is Still Alive.
Not really gone...i am pretty sure all its silicone is nearly immortal and will outlive all of us. But all other electrical components and screens...their time will be over much sooner.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 if its fixable its still immortal
@@tezcanaslan2877 Something something Ship of Theseus
I've heard actual synthesized speech out of a PC Speaker before, and I think that computer can do it. Problem is you gotta code the thing in assembly language if you expect to update the screen at the same time. There's just no other way. Manipulating both video RAM and the PC speaker pins is going to be so tight you need to know instruction timing to do it.
where?
@@FoxWare Yab baseball. On a newer computer I had a Linux program called say, but the difference between an 8086 and a P1 is extreme.
@@joshuahudson2170 thanks!
Possibly
Even when those where the current computers NO ONE CODED in assembly. So no you don't have to code this in assembly, you coding snob. Also, why the fuck would you be manipulating video RAM?
i really like how there's also "want you gone" on that floppy
The "Want you Gone" program was not created by me (I actually do not remember where I got that one from). But the Still Alive program featured in the video was created by me.
EDIT: The creator of the Want you gone program can be found here: ruclips.net/video/AyzQPojK1oo/видео.html
Happened upon this after finishing Portal RTX over the weekend. I love it! Great work. HUGE SUCCESS.
I see what you did there...
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
too laggy for me, might overclock my pc
Over the weekend? You can complete the game in like 50 minutes without even speedrunning it :|
@@namenotappropriate8756 When you’re as old as I am, getting more than 15-30 minutes of gaming time in during one sitting is often as good as it gets. 😅
The whole staging and lighting of this is so simplistically nostalgic and beautiful all on its own it's almost hard to believe it isn't a 3D render, even when we can see you picking up and moving things. Absolutely amazing 👏👏👏
I like the idea of the music without the lyrics. It makes it feel more like a Dying AI's final words, the final message they can get out while the majority of their processing systems are shutting down from being torn apart. Final, Dying Thoughts...
The sweet embrace... followed by the black box torturing glados with her death god knows how many times, but lets not worry about that.
And funnily enough the song is about how the AI is still alive...
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You clearly knows nothing about computers. It just can't do any better.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse You clearly know nothing about storytelling
This hits hard all these years later still, and the way it just feels like a more deeper message is what makes it feel crazy.
POV: Chell finds a computer in Aperture Science Labs that still works
So cool! I love the noises it makes when it starts up, it really _feels_ like a machine, or perhaps some sort of creature.
That monitor is worth a fortune. Took me 15 years to get one, and I paid like $50 for it. Nice rig.
really? We have 2 of them home in a boxes, I never knew theyre of some value
@@zavaraninoveuhorky It looks rare :o
Thats the exact monitor I had on my 386 when i was a kid. It was great for its time.
@@the_kombinator I found an imbecile scammer on ebay who is selling a nokia crt for $500, with $10,000 shipping -_-
these crts for high prices are scams. crts are worth nothing now, people throw crt out.
I paid like $40 for mine. What makes this monitor special is it can connect to MDA, CGA, EGA, and VGA cards. Super useful for using with a variety of vintage computers.
This is truly incredible. And lore accurate, too! The old Aperture ran on IBM machines, so this is exactly what could have happened in the game
My jaw dropped and I can't seem to find it for the whole duration of this video! This is my first time seeing ancient technology in action! I am so GLaD the algorithm recommended me this video. Cheers.
hey bro, i think i found your jaw, it's all the way over here in europe, man that thing flew but did you see mine though?
@@Fogolol Sorry for the late reply, man. I got the package just now-and by package, I mean my jaw. Thanks for sending it back. I know it has been a couple of weeks, but have you found yours yet? Or has someone else in this comment section contacted you yet?
@@Fogololhey, finally found it! Flew into a tree that eventually got cut down today, fell right onto my lap. I’ll send it back. But by any chance have you seen mine?
@@Duckbusinessman oh nice i've been missing that thing for a whole year now!
Unfortunately i have not seen yours yet but i'll keep an eye out for it!
This song brings a tear to my eye every time. Portal was a part of my childhood and I think I'm gonna carry my fondness for the world surrounding it and half life to my death.
It’s even better because they used IBM PS/2 as the model for the computers on all the office desks in portal 2
It's endearing that you even included the game's credits, it's the fully authentic experience without being trapped in an abandoned Michigan mine repurposed into a testing facility.
this is amazing i love it! I immediately had to download it and play it on an MSDOS emulator.
Assuming that it would work. Because that program I'm guessing is 16-bit. Your computer is probably 64-bit. I mean, it might work on DOSBox, but you're not gonna get the same experience as bare metal.
@@TheUltimateRUclipsryay he literally said with a msdos emulator
And yes it works, i tested it
Stupid question, but is there such a thing as an MSDOS emulator of sorts for a vintage Macintosh. I have a Mac Plus, which I think would be fun to do something like this.
@@TheUltimateRUclipsryay Yeah, 64-Bit NT lacks the NTVDM, but stuff like DOSBox exist.
My initial thought was that you were gonna start the program and play the original piece on a separate player, making them synchronous.
When I started hearing the actual PC beeping, I was so joyous!
Thank you for making this
I'd like to see more content like this, like watching or playing old games on a crt unit
You might enjoy a channel called 'LGR'
"Returning to (GLa)DOS" is the funniest thing I've seen today
Man, seeing that IBM boot up brought back so many memories for me. Holy crap.
Imagine this is actually GlaDOS acutally singing Still Alive and all we (and the characters in the game) hear is the beeping of a computer that we expect to be just music, but it's a sinister message that we will never escape and when we think we've done it all we're just brought back to the beginning to do it all over again.
Nice! 👏
System operative..Linux better.
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Wow. Goosebumps. All the ambient sounds really sounds of the computer booting and reading will never not be a part of my memories.
That spinup alonegives this warm and fuzzy feeling.
And now I keep optimising my rickroll floppy.
okay but it's so cool that the portal credits are fully plausible in terms of how they look for an old machine
i don't know how to explain what i'm trying to say but
I love this! It's so oddly nostalgic hearing it like this, beeping cheerfully, with the constant hard drive background noise. Great work!
Check out my friend's proof of concept of "Want You Gone" using multiple computers for each voice: ruclips.net/video/GVamjiMuC6c/видео.html
Source code for my program has been added to the description of the video.
BONUS CONTENT:
Beta Test 1: ruclips.net/video/xg9A5PcXpfw/видео.html
Beta Test 2: ruclips.net/video/VT4R0s2_z7g/видео.html
Final Beta: ruclips.net/video/sEvVsLjn_Zg/видео.html
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You build gaming PCs? Info? Website?
My old rig is across the country and needs both hardrives repaired. I don't know if I'm getting it back. I was wondering what it would cost to have one built, if that's a reasonable option. I have seen how it's cheaper to build it yourself and found that unenjoyable and not worth the money saved. I saw it in your channel description and thought I'd ask. Basically I need something that can run really heavily modded Skyrim fast as fuck. Highest specs I can get for least money would be my starting point. I can't remember all the jargon, I learn this stuff while I'm doing it and forget it, but I had an Asus motherboard, a western digital terrabyte hard drive and a SSD...I can't remember all the stuff, I researched it at the time individually.
It would be great if I could get a machine without bloat wear and some crappy parts thrown in and all that.
I don't know how this works so I was wondering what you charge etc.
Further Information would be appreciated, but I don't want to make it sound like you have a sale on the line just yet, heh...more like an estimate and some context on how it would go down with you.
I remember writing a calendar program using QBasic many moons ago... Love the old IBM PC. I have an old IBM 5150 here with just two floppy disk drives in it.
How big is that hard drive that you have in there? I remember doing a little PAC-Man program as well.
Hi. It has a Seagate ST-225 MFM HDD, which has a 20MB capacity.
@@HudsonGTV WOW !!! I remember those days. I think I had dual MFM 20M drives at one time. Running Novell 2.5 and DOS 5.0
@@HudsonGTV That is plenty enough for about 40 000 boot sector games ;)
@@HudsonGTVit's crazy that 20 MB was considered massive back then... Now 20 MB hardly gets you anything
That makes the ending so much spookier knowing that this is realistically what chell saw
This actually makes me kind of emotional, reminds me of the first time I beat this game when I was just a kid, playing with my big brother sitting beside me, the good ol times, simpler times. Now I’m still studying in a different city, and we’ve grown to like different genre of games, but we still talk about the days where we’d play Battlefield 2 testing dumbass mods and grind Warframe all day together.
Thanks for this, this is amazing.
You are an amazing human being. Thank you so much for contributing to my happiness and the happiness of so many others. This game has a very very special spot in my heart and will forever remain there. I've also dreamed of owning a legitimate terminal since before I even played the 1st portal on orange box (or fallout 3). So this was very special nostalgic for me.
idk why this has me weirdly emotional but this was absolutely beautiful and i hope you have a wonderful day.
I don’t even know where to start. It’s super cool that you went ahead and built this decided to share it on the Internet. And it’s incredible that RUclips figured out that I wanted to watch this.
Wow... the whole boot sequence, and keyboard typing sounds brought back many memories
I decided to leave that in and have timestamps for those who didn't want to watch the boot sequence, as I think the boot sequence is a part of the whole experience.
@@HudsonGTV I still had my old apple ][+ up until about 10 years ago. Along with some 150 floppies that I could still tell you what games were on them.
i like how when ever it goes to "for the people who are still alive" it immediately cuts out instead of a music break.
Well done internet person. I was almost brought to tears. Truly an amazing song from an amazing game, and at that amazingly performed.
I’m gonna have to save this one.
Thank you.
hearing the loud fan and those mechanical clicks feels like like a soft forgotten memory ❤
it's feels nostalgic even though I never played portal 1 or had a CRT Monitor
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ok gen z
you might be experiencing Anemoia (a feeling of nostalgia for things you was never there for) or you just are confusing nostalgia with another feeling
go play the portal series then! you won't regret it
The atmosphere just makes it better
this made me wish i could go back to when portal and half life were the big games just to relive all this stuff
Not sure if I'm missing your point, but both Portal and Half Life would've been around 2 decades after this computer.
You still can :) replay everything
VERY nicely done for your first QuickBASIC program! What a neat idea, & beautiful way to present it. It feels so perfect to see this on a genuine old computer & CRT monitor. :3
Ahh, the nostalgia, in more ways than one...
윈도우즈 XP가 주력이었던 2005년 무렵까지는 컴퓨터 부팅시 들리는 팬의 소음, 하드 디스크를 직직 읽는 소리, 삑하고 울리는 비프음들이 저 것과 완벽히 동일했었습니다. Until around 2005, when Windows XP was the mainstream The noise of the fan when the computer boots, the sound of reading the hard disk directly, and the beeping sound It was exactly the same as that one.
Something about the fact that it can actually do this (and do it well) is just so beautiful (and fitting)
i can just imagine this being used in a DOS virus actually, portal-themed
It warms my heart down to the belly to hear those sounds again. I won't buy such a computer just for the sounds, but this video inspired me to buy old flopyy discs, the real old real floppy ones, so I can hold them with my thumb and index finger and wave them back and forth to make that beautiful floppy sound. Maybe I'll do ASMR videos with it? 😁
I'd like to imagine that this is the "real" version that played somewhere in the depths of Aperture, and the lyrics and music we hear is what GLADoS herself is thinking, but not what is actually being output
looked at the thumbnail first and thought it was a cool portal mod. this is a real-life mod man. amazing job. :)
Thanks a ton!
Oh my God, the boot up… it brings up so much memories
Yep reminds me of the old is of turning on my computer, walking away and pouring a cup of coffee and getting ready in the morning.
Fun story... I was obsessed with Still Alive before playing Portal. It sounded so interesting that it made me play the game. I still listen to it sometimes.
Dear lord, I feel old looking at this and i wasn't even alive for it's use!
joder esto es nostalgico me hace llorar XD EL MEJOR VIDEO😊😊
Man, that brought back the fucking feels.....
This was one of the best treats to witness after beating the game. All the nods to the in-game lore... the connections between Aperture Science and Black Mesa... I remember losing my shit with my brother friend when she mentioned them - it was an awesome way to have a little nod towards the other series whilst not shattering the fourth wall.
"YoOoOoOoO! She just made a shout out to Black Mesa!"
This is just so wholesome. It's like old Aperture computers in the buried section.
One doesn't go through the effort of doing all this without wanting to put smiles on faces, and let me tell ya', as DOS user who loves Portal, you sure put a smile on mine.
this lovely machine will be added to my new playlist where she will gently lull me to sleep among other songs from different games i really loved thanks
Whoever made this is not only the biggest nerd, but also the coolest Portal fan.
This feels so much more passive-aggressive without the singing, and I love it.
1:21 NOW I know where I've seen this before...
This is fantastic, all the fan and electronic sounds really add something nice to the track that just isn't there when played normally. I love the little details you added on the floppy disk itself too.
This was high key a nostalgia overload
Which is weird cus im 22. I wasn't around when this stuff was normal. Mostly... i remember a fair bit of the early 2000s
One thing i think contrbutes is stuff like portal and halflife being these colossal aesthetic gateways into older tech as a kid. So in a way i kinda did grow up with retro stuff, just through a different means.
the lighting and camera work is beautiful
Aigh't that's neat. Nice work my dude!
Still bringing people smiles a year in. Thank you.
This is beautiful and incredibly impressive
that ascii art brings this hold thing together amazingly
0:50 don't think I didn't notice that "WANTGONE EXE" there...
I'm crying joy over this. Well done
Just having the buzzing in the background makes me relax.
Like we're back in time, where we're younger and didn't have things to think about other than to play
The whirring sound as the monitor powered off brought back some memories!
lol it sounds like a airplane taking off when you turn it on 0:05
That’s the hardrive
I love this. Some of my first Qbasic programs in the 90s was music from my favorite video games at the time (specifically Mario and Sonic) with some kind of ASCII backdrop. This really brings me back.
2:41 god this part always makes me want to cry
This shit is so good, after so many years, this thing still works like new
This is cool as hell! Excellent job!
This made me cry
Portal is one of the best stories ever put into any video game
The usage of that specific IBM CRT monitor to further match the credit roll made it even better. I imagine that this would be the last active computer in Aperture Laboratories that GlaDOS used to play this song, with the program printed onto that floppy disk. There's my immersive thinking. Amazing work!
By the way, how long did it take you to program this?
It took like 2-3 days. I wanted to challenge myself with a programming language I had never used and see what I could come up with.
The code is pretty ugly though.
@@HudsonGTV wow, that's quicker than i imagined. Then again, like you said, you did want a challenge. As someone who came into the world a year before Win98 released, i can imagine coding in DOS would look ugly lol
Once again, this came out amazingly well! Cheers!
Such a cool machine, I love watching things like this from the past.
This almost brought a tear to my eye. I still remember the day I first beat it, I got through the entire thing on my first sitting and I don't regret a single second of it. Even if it never gets another sequel, for me Portal will always be Still Alive.
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This is the true way to play the Portal credits scene
that pc still turned on faster than my current pc 💀(actually no joke)
I don't know why RUclips waited this long to show me this. It's wonderful.
This makes me miss portal
there are developers in Valve that have publicly stated they have ideas for a Portal 3 and that they’re trying to convince their workmates to get it started
@@protocetid Too bad it's really hard for anything to get enough momentum at Valve to actually turn into something substantial, with how their work culture is and all...
this scene looks so retro vapor wave!
i could totally see a bunch of code scrolling and synthwave playing in the background.
Love it.
what do you mean this isn't perfect? this is LITERALLY a masterpiece.
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It's crazy that this is stuck on repeat on the radios in Portal