Chell has arrived in Portal64! (and why it is nearly impossible to optimize her mesh) 

The only reason you see one as a viewmodel is sheer power of belief

"What is she doing?" "She's beginning to believe"

She stares at the wall so aggressively that it bends spacetime out of fear

Shouldn't he just add a portal gun model to her right hand?

reminded me of "Gordon doesn't need to hear this, he's a highly trained professional!"

I’m pretty sure this is all able to run on real n64 hardware, right?

They have Micro Mages (an NES game, that runs on an emulator if you play from Steam), and there are mods of Portal/Portal 2 that are on steam and require you to own Portal (2) to play them.

After letting Hunt Down The Freeman be sold for real actual money, I'd hope so.

Valve lets mods of their games be sold for actual money (provided the people buying them own the original game), so I have no doubt that they'd let him distribute a full blown remake (or is it demake?) of their game. Although people would have to own Portal first before they can download it

@@snoopdoggthecertifiedg6777 Yes

You win

I’ve been wanting to get into collecting SGI computers. Where do you get them from / how do you go about collecting them?

@@auxel_ This turned out longer than I was expecting but hope it helps! Honestly there's tons of places to look around, I'd advise against eBay however as the pricing there is notoriously bad and shipping damage is pretty common with SGI systems even if packaged fairly well. I got my Indy off Facebook marketplace from another collector who knew how to properly package it, and I got my Octane2 from a guy on Craigslist who won it in an auction from a medical center. Try sticking to local options like marketplace and craigslist and maybe even try looking for any businesses that may have used the machine you're looking for (example: news stations that used O2s for weather graphics), another place you could try is surplus auction sites, I was eyeing a lot of 7 SGI O2s from the University of Washington. One of the best ways to find SGI systems IMO is getting into the SGI community to meet others, you'll usually see random bits of hardware and even complete systems being sold fairly often and the pricing is pretty fair as they're collectors themselves, irixnet.org is a great forum to try as well as the Silicon Graphics User Group forums and discord server. The discord server has been an invaluable resource for me as once you get an SGI, you can be a little overwhelmed with how to do things like install IRIX and where to find disk images, everyone on the discord is incredibly kind and helpful, when I located my Octane2 I asked for some help identifying the specs based on the pics in the listing and several people jumped to help me out, awesome people. Spend some time picking a system you want, look into the different parts and specs for that system, look around at the reasonably priced stuff for an idea, and just don't give up on your search as it's easy to be discouraged between the overpriced stuff and the lack of results. And join the SGUG discord for opinions if you find something and get a fair price estimate from them, and try to haggle down the seller's price to that or even lower if you're willing, if you're patient and know more about the system than the seller does and you're smart about your offers then you'll most likely score a pretty good SGI for a reasonable price, having that entire community worth of knowledge in your back pocket helps immensely when both searching and getting the system up and running. Best of luck to you! Another minor note is finding sync-on-green compatible monitors, there's a list online compiled by the PS2 Linux community that has a list of SOG compatible monitors.

@@VintageShark Thank you so much!

Most of the later N64 titles were developed using a different devkit called "Partner N64" that was supplied by Kyoto Microcomputer (but they would only sell it to Nintendo licensees) - that was much more like the Everdrive setup - there was a slightly modified N64 console with extra wires so the debugger could generate reset and NMI and a cartridge you downloaded the code you were testing to - connection to the host system was either via a SCSI based interface (used with the SGI machines) or via an ISA bus plug-in card for PCs. Unlike the Everdrive it was RAM based, so it was fast to download code to, but it was also volatile. I have to say I always thought that the original Ultra 64 devboard was a slightly strange design because it's use of the GIO32 bus and the connector positioning meant that it could only be connected to the slots on top of the Indy video board and not to anything else, not even other SGI machines.

This isn't as big of a problem for modern game engines since they don't need to speed nearly as much time switching out textures in the texture cache. Many modern 3D models just have a single material for the entire model.