Portal on Mac without being part of the Steam beta

Just a quick demonstration of Portal downloading on my Macbook Pro without being in the beta.
Made to demonstrate this to the Steam Forums, cut out the exploit because you can't post it. I'm sure you all know how to do it anyway.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• steam
• portal
• mac
• tf2
• team
• fortress
• beta
• macbook
• pro
• imac
• apple
• store
• steampowered

[juulie19]

Can you show a vid of you actually playing the game? Cause all this crap is nice and dandy, but doesnt actually do anything.

[Gnargleherooftime]

@juulie19 Ah, but unfortunately after finishing the download: it doesn't work.

Somewhat disappointing.

[Funkboy1234]

Can you show us how to download Portal if you are not in the beta?

[Gnargleherooftime]

@Funkboy1234 No cause that's naughty ;)

[2befine]

You can't play it anyway...

[Gnargleherooftime]

@2befine What does it do? Just tells you you're not part of the beta?

[soggywedge]

clare

[2befine]

@Gnargleherooftime it tells that "This game currently unavailable. Please try again at another time."

[andydamg]

steam://install/52003, is that what you did?

[andydamg]

@Gnargleherooftime You might want to try extracting the GCFs, see whats inside them.

[Fug118TheGreat]

how do u get t othe download page for portal?

[juulie19]

@Gnargleherooftime Hmm that sucks, im trying to download TF2 as well but it says that the servers are smoking atm. have to wait till may 12th then i guess...