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Portal's GLaDOS Shows New Blue Screen of Death

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

GLaDOS... Still Alive.

Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell was on stage at the Game Developers Choice Awards, where he accepted the Pioneer Award. During his time on stage, the computer-driven projection suddenly displayed what appeared to be a Blue Screen of Death.

Upon closer inspection, however, this was not caused by any Windows XP error; it was a warning from GLaDOS, the friendly computer from Portal.

At first inspection, it seems to just be a usual error message, but the a Penny Arcade forum member, as noted by Kotaku, converted some of that message from hex to EBCDIC to produce this:

GLaDOS
A fatal exception (S) has occurred at (U)(S) : (P)(E)(N)(D) in (U)(N )(T)((I)) *
(L)(E)(E)(E). The current application will be terminated.

* Press any key to flood the facility with deadly neurotoxins.
* Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to reinstate testing. You will lose any
Non-vital personnel and their progress through the current test.

Press any key to continue _

Seems like further details on Portal 2 will be pending until E3.

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wonspur 13/03/2010 21:40
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haha valve is great.

Herr_Koos 15/03/2010 08:53
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But.... there is no cake!

jamesedgeuk2000 15/03/2010 09:38
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the cake is not a lie!!!

mi1ez 15/03/2010 09:54
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Valve have been on top form these last couple of weeks!

Herr_Koos 15/03/2010 12:41
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mi1ez wrote :

Valve have been on top form these last couple of weeks!




Still no HL2: Episode 3 though....

jamie_macdonald 15/03/2010 13:28
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lol, wp @ valve ...least humour is alive ^^

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