http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Portal: Prelude Forum fr http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4650#p4650 4650@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: "This file contains invalid data." Unable to install Message: When I double click on the application, this message pops up"This file contains invalid data."I've tried re-downloading from different mirros and running in compatibility mode with admin privilegebut none of them works. :(Please help!!btw I'm using Win7 x64 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:16 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4649#p4649 4649@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Problems installing? Message: Nope, not on Windows.It's always the same story, we know how to calculate it, not really how to use it. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:10:36 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4648#p4648 4648@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Problems installing? Message: I've tried re-downloading from a few mirrors and to different computers...but I don't know how to compare the md5 thing.  Any instructions on that? Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:28:50 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4647#p4647 4647@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Problems installing? Message: Seems like the data got corrupted at some point during the download. The MD5 checksum of the 1.1.5 installer is 8f6a21a34553eef27ccfdbd4b26c4724, if you know how to compare with yours, try it. Else, I suggest you try to reinstall with administrator privileges (I doubt this will help) or simply redownload it. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:02:38 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4646#p4646 4646@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Problems installing? Message: So my friend and I are trying to install the mod on her new laptop - it's running 64 bit windows 7, I think.  No matter how I try to run the installer it gives me an error that says "This file contains invalid data."Any idea how I can fix it? Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:40:03 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4645#p4645 4645@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Is the installer really nessary? Message: Is it there just for people who can't figure out how to extract a zip file and where to copy the content, and believe me, even with an installer, I got these questions. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:10:45 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4644#p4644 4644@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Tough but awesome. Message: Interesting story, nice to see you finally decided not to castrate me or burn something in front of my door :D Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:09:17 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4643#p4643 4643@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Is the installer really nessary? Message: I absolutely HATE useless installers, especially ones that I can't open with winrar.  But I've begrudgingly run the installer for Prelude on my laptop.  Am I fine in just copying the 'SourceMods\portal prelude' folder over to my other computer or is Prelude different from other normal Source Mods and actually requires the installer?  Is it there just for people who can't figure out how to extract a zip file? Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:40:29 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4642#p4642 4642@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Test Subject's relationship with Testers Message: The only thing I can think of is that either one of two things:1. The test subjects are either prisoners in some parallel-universe-tyrannical-society thing and getting through the test chambers is their ticket to freedom. The scientists don't want anyone to get hurt but since it is run with government money, the government is going to be able to tell them what to do. So instead of the gov't paying for a cell and food for the prisoner, they have them conduct tests for the portal experiments, not to mention they'll potentially have someone who can out-think life and death situations. Potential for some kind of special soldier, perhaps? HL2: EP3 tie in possibly? We know the GMan is involved so it may be his little scheme. I know this isn't an official Valve game but it could put ideas into their head. they've always been mod friendly.2. The test subjects are employees/volunteers who are expecting a big pay day if they get through alive. They are never told before hand how dangerous it's going to be except at the beginning of each chamber where there's a hint of the danger posted on the wall before starting. I'd imagine there wouldn't be many volunteers if they knew what they were really in for./if I had to bet, I'd go for option 1 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:29 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4641#p4641 4641@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Tough but awesome. Message: I'll post here instead of starting another thread.I've had the mod for a little over a year now. When I first got it I was real excited to have more Portal to play. I loved the fact that it was a functional facility. Well thought out :)Then I hit Chamber 9. No matter how many times I tried to make that small jump I seemed to move sideways or I just wasn't able to go through the portals enough to get enough momentum to get where I needed to go. Frustration set in and I put it down for a while, all the while wishing evil things upon the creators of the mod. I know the mod was for a more advanced player but I'm no slouch when it comes to this sort of stuff so I just figured I'd get to it again someday.Fast forward to a few weeks ago when the whole Portal 2 shenanigans started. I must have played the original Portal 3 or 4 times in a row and actually got some achievements on the challenges I never got. Having fun and a bit more confident, I went back to my old saved game in Prelude.It must have taken 2 hours or so to figure out what I was doing wrong before in Chamber 9. I don't like using walk throughs unless I'm at the point of printing a copy of the game on CD, walking to the creator's house and burning it in effigy on their front lawn. I was trying to time the electric field so when I had enough momentum going up and down, I'd place a portal on the floor over the wall, spring up to where the field was, and run to the exit. I made it to that electrified field exactly once, hitting the field while it was active. So I broke down, watched the walk through and saw you only needed to get on top of the wall, place a portal, and leisurely spring to the ledge. Since that point, I've actually been able to enjoy the game immensely. Even Chamber 19 wasn't as frustrating as 9 (even though it still is a pain in the rump). Despite repeated urges to castrate the creators, I can now see this is a wonderful mod that needed to be difficult to be truly enjoyed. I don't know how you came up with some of the level designs but most were brilliant (except 9 lol). I just want to say good job and well done! Congrats on all the attention it's gotten and I hope to see more in the future! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:36:51 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4640#p4640 4640@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Very embarrassing but...how to do the very first room? Message: NykO18 wrote:What game are you playing on ?Sounds like the original Portal to me, and this is not Portal's website, this is Portal: Prelude here. Uh. You know, Portal: Prelude has a glass box with a button, Portal does not. Anyway, to the thread starter, you stand on the button, you get the cube, you put it on the button... Your brain is just... Not for Prelude. Trust me, this way you will solve nothing at all. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:29:29 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4639#p4639 4639@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Game Freezes on Load Screen Message: I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and having the same issue. I did notice if I leave it for a while I do get to see the fuzzy white chair loading screen, then it just crashes...i find it strange that i can hear some opening video but can't see it...i hope someone can find a solution soon. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:31 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4638#p4638 4638@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: 13thSlayer wrote:There also is a new weird acheivment :/ Can't get it (no, i get what to do, just fail to find... stuff) Yup. 26 Radios to find. 23 of them are within the 19 Test Chambers. Only a few of them are difficult to find if you are observant. Keep the volume up and listen for Still Alive being played.  Nothing happens if you find their transmission points except that you get to hear the Morse Code files that play over the radios, which is kind of creepy.The released info on Portal 2 is completely unexpected. I'm not going to spoil it since you can get it at Wikipedia if nothing else, but needless to say it is different. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:40:39 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4637#p4637 4637@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: There also is a new weird acheivment :/ Can't get it (no, i get what to do, just fail to find... stuff) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:19:44 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4636#p4636 4636@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Problem with download. Message: Woooops, sorry, I made a change to the server architecture yesterday and didn't bother checking for problems.It should work fine now. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:49:27 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4635#p4635 4635@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Problem with download. Message: I press the download link and it takes me to http://www.portalprelude.com/download.php but I can't find the download link. Maybe I'm just stupid/blind but I just can't see it.Picture: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:54:51 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4634#p4634 4634@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: 13thSlayer wrote:Not actually an easter egg, but on 3rd March of 2010 VALVe made a new Portal ending, so it might be worth playing Portal again ;) The changed ending is actually pretty minor. The ending all but confirms Chell's participation in the next story, though.On the other hand, Portal 2 has now been confirmed, likely for December of this year. Will have a single player campaign AND a multiplayer co-op campaign that will feature a different story and two new playable characters. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:36:04 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4633#p4633 4633@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: Not actually an easter egg, but on 3rd March of 2010 VALVe made a new Portal ending, so it might be worth playing Portal again ;) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:27:13 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4632#p4632 4632@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: If anyone has Google Wave, I started a sub-wave to the Portal wave to talk about the update and share conspiracy theories at https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored: … hMHyRCAA.4If anyone needs a wave invite so they can contribute, e-mail me.  You can also view a static version (without signing into wave) at http://antimatter15.com/misc/read/?goog … +6hMHyRCAA Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:25:15 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4631#p4631 4631@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: No walktrough for chapter 8 (Testing complete) - why? Message: I know there aren't many puzzles there, but there are some, plus we'd (me and sum freinds) like to see what strategy the creators use in the boss fight... so, why isn't there a walktrough for that? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:32:33 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4630#p4630 4630@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: I was thinking the same thing last night when I was playing the new Portal!Not quite the same thing, but the similarities were pretty striking. I'm happy that it appears we will see more of Chell in either Portal 2 or Half-Life 2.3.Was a bit afraid she'd be forgotten. I know that someone had Valve had stated Chell's character had actually been developed prior to Portal for something else and when Portal came along she fit very well with the Aperture Science angle, so I'm hoping for a good story there coming up. :)YAY for more Portal stuff!!! Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:30:51 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4629#p4629 4629@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: Looks like they changed the end of Portal.Funny enough, it now looks a bit like Portal: Prelude :D Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:48:55 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4628#p4628 4628@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: NykO18 wrote:Yeah, this stuff is rad!This is way too much work for a simple easter-egg, it must be something more important. Yup. Really hope it lead to say...Portal 2. :)or Half-Life 2.3 with the Borealis, at least. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:42:43 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4627#p4627 4627@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: Yeah, this stuff is rad!This is way too much work for a simple easter-egg, it must be something more important. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:55:44 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4626#p4626 4626@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: New Portal Easter Eggs Message: Everyone in the community knows about this stuff by now. The new radios, the hidden messages, the decoded sound files, the BBS that gives these images etc.Decoded Aperture ImagesJust interesting to note that the copyright on the GLaDOS software apparently runs from 1973-1997. The date for the ludicrous protocols for selecting Enrichment Center test subjects is back in 1976.Wonder how much of this should be taken seriously. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:17:24 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4625#p4625 4625@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Todolist Message: FIFTILS wrote:hey im new in this forum and i don t know if i can ask this question here but i will do it, sorry if im in the wrong place: i download the game and i have steam but when i start the game in the places where he scientist have to stay theres the word "error" in red letters and in other places, like the chamber 19 room1 theres a lot of this words, and in the end, i can t see anything because this words. do you know why this words appear? Wrong place, move this to http://portalprelude.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=4 . That's a). B) 1.1.0 version is out of date, i belive you need to redownload the mod. C) Do you own Portal? Did you ever play it? (Not sarcasm, you have to play Portal on Steam at least once for this stuff to work) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:36:47 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4624#p4624 4624@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Todolist Message: hey im new in this forum and i don t know if i can ask this question here but i will do it, sorry if im in the wrong place: i download the game and i have steam but when i start the game in the places where he scientist have to stay theres the word "error" in red letters and in other places, like the chamber 19 room1 theres a lot of this words, and in the end, i can t see anything because this words. do you know why this words appear? Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:06:56 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4623#p4623 4623@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Erik's laugh... what file is it? Message: I want to take that for my message tone on phone ^_^ Where is this located? Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:23:50 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4622#p4622 4622@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Fix the FAQ, please, it's confusing. Message: Ok right, I'll try to update this ASAP. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:34:20 +0100 http://www.portalprelude.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4621#p4621 4621@http://www.portalprelude.com/forum Topic: Fix the FAQ, please, it's confusing. Message: In order to play Portal: Prelude you need to have Steam  installed on your system, of course. You also need to be the owner of Portal and probably nothing else. Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source or the Source SDK Base (which can be downloaded for free in the tools  tab of Steam) may be of some use, but we don't think so. In fact, I'm not really sure you need anything else than Portal, so I advise you to try and see, because there's no way I'm going to uninstall every Source game of my computer until it doesn't work anymore. Steam will notify you if something goes wrong... and if something goes wrong, start by installing the Source SDK Base. . I have tested this mod back in the days when I owned NOTHING on Steam but Portal (which was my first Steam game), everything went well, and I finished it back then too. This might confuse some who didn't play the mod yet (and I have a couple of friends who just finished Portal and which I'm trying to get to play the mod, so not everyone played it yet ;)) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:54:04 +0100