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A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
- badgersnake 8mo agoLove GTA1, but IIRC my version at least is a 3dfx glide game which makes it quite hard to play on modern kit. Will give this a try.
- rzzzt 8mo agoIt has an 8-bit color, a True Color and a 3dfx executable side-by-side in the installation folder.
- grebc 8mo agoThe best version - thank you.
- etrvic 8mo agoYou might want to add [2022] in the title
- HelloUsername 8mo agoCrap, you're right. But I can't edit anymore. Also that would exceed the character limit.
- AnotherGoodName 8mo agoCheck out Exodos for this type of thing. It's built on launchbox (an emulator front end) and just gives a huge listing of every game you might ever want to play. Those games aren't all installed (assuming you didn't do the full 500GB+ install) but you click the game and it quickly downloads, installs into dosbox and jumps into the game (takes seconds since these are old games).
- pipes 8mo agoSlightly related, if like me you have gone far to far down the emulation rabbit hole and find that you are now onto FPGA emulation, you might enjoy: https://0mhz.net/ https://0mhz.net/ https://amiga.vision/ https://amiga.vision/ I really want to get these working on my steamdeck too but it looks like a lot of work.
- giobox 8mo agohttps://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html
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- refulgentis 8mo agoTake care with the link folks: - it's a fork of the main repo with much less eyeballs* - following directions on the repo leads to arbitrary code execution, on your machine, via an LLM controlled by prompts and code from the repo - comment is unrelated to TFA besides "video game" * for all I know this is the new cool repo, but...the combination of circumstances is suspicious.
- jonny_eh 8mo agoThis post has nothing to do with AI. Plus, these games are classics not just because of their mechanics. Nearly the entire library of the NES were games trying, and failing, to replicate the magic of Super Mario Bros.
- doubled112 8mo agoYes, and I have always found it amusing because on the surface it was run right, jump, repeat.
- seattle_spring 8mo agoSure, in the same way that The Lord of the Rings is a really long trilogy about walking in the woods.
- NoboruWataya 8mo agoI always feel old when I read Reddit comments by people who say they feel old because they remember when GTA III came out. I played a lot of GTA I and II in the late 90s/early 00s. Admittedly GTA I felt a bit dated at the time but GTA II was great. The top-down view didn't age well I guess but made it feel quite distinctive. I feel like in a lot of people's minds the series only really began at III.
- MPSimmons 8mo agoI played GTA after I played Carmageddon and I thought the graphics on GTA were kind of retro at the time, but in reflection, it does have some charm, I think.
- hdgvhicv 8mo agoLoved carmageddon, and yes graphics felt far more modern than GTA. Still loved gta eventually though as it was more fun. Dropped out of gaming before GTA3 came out, but was given a PlayStation and gta V last year, very disappointed there was no “gouranga”
- Markoff 8mo agoit was definitely retro, by the time of GTA1 release there was already Screamer 2 released year ago and Need for speed 3 years prior, though you are right unlike Carmageddon they didnt have pedestrians
- bluedino 8mo agoI remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit? Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer Aspire.
- boredemployee 8mo agoYes! I remember it, it was around 1997/98, I was a kid and couldn't believe a game like that could exist lol! it was so crazy for that time
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- OJFord 8mo agoI'm sure it was officially re-released for modern (of the day) PCs before this? I think I've still got it on discs somewhere, a set of the first trilogy, Vice City, and maybe San Andreas.
- tirant 8mo agoThose were GTA3 versions. The linked version is for the original GTA with the classical top view perspective.
- zamadatix 8mo agoFor the benefit of anyone else trying to read along, it ?seems? there are 2 separate re-releases being referred to. The first was the Rockstar Classics, which were slightly more modern repackagings of GTA and GTA 2 in the early 2000s https://www.ebay.com/itm/168127378760 https://www.ebay.com/itm/168127378760 which came out around the time gp also got their discs for San Andreas and Vice City The second was The Trilogy, a much more current and deeper remaster of GTA III as well as those latter two OG games gp had (Vice City and San Andreas) which is actively distributed https://store.steampowered.com/sub/817628/ https://store.steampowered.com/sub/817628/ Speaking of all of these re-releases, I'm surprised Rockstar hasn't re-released GTA 4 recently. There are community made ways to make it run miraculously better on modern PCs as noted in https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV but I'm sure many would pay for something prepackaged (and maybe one or two other improvements). I guess they are too busy printing money with GTA V and hoping the next one will be the same :).
- Lammy 8mo ago> hasn't re-released GTA 4 recently I did start trying to replay GTA4 recently, and although I loved playing it the first time, this time I couldn't stop noticing that each mission's Niko/NPC dialog feels very forcefully-timed to match almost to the second how long it takes to drive to the first objective. I found it really immersion-breaking. PCGW sez “Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties” but IMO if one wants to reinstall, use FusionFix and Radio Restoration mods and no need for anything else. No packaged GTA4 re-release from Rockstar would be good enough to re-license all the removed songs anyway if the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is any indication: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/333629-grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition/79755287 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/333629-grand-theft-auto... If they really wanted to get my money they would re-release Midnight Club Los Angeles on PC instead :)
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- Stevvo 8mo agoAlso available at; https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto/ https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto/ where WASM is used to emulate Windows 95 in your browser.
- w4yai 8mo ago404 - I think you meant https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-1997/ https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-1997/
- retired 8mo agoI vaguely remember Grand Theft Auto being free to download from the Rockstar Games website about ten years ago. Here is to hoping that Rockstar Games brings these two classics back.
- glenstein 8mo agoSame! All I want is a rockstar-endorsed distribution of them, with working multiplayer. Free? Not free? I don't care, just bring it back!
- pcchristie 8mo agoThat's ringing a bell. I think it might have been GTA London? I downloaded it and probably have it archived somewhere.
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- bananaboy 8mo agoI played a lot of GTA1 and a bit of 2 when it came out. I think we used to play it at LAN parties my friends and I had as well. For me that’s where it stopped and I never clicked with GTA3 and onwards!
- seattle_spring 8mo agoI absolutely adored the first 2 games, especially GTA2. "Damnation! No donation, nooo salvation!"
- HPsquared 8mo agoGTA2 also had a cool cinematic intro: https://youtu.be/9Z5O29rLRnw https://youtu.be/9Z5O29rLRnw
- NetOpWibby 8mo agoI remember downloading the RealPlayer version
- asdff 8mo agoDo you play other 3d games? I've seen a lot of difficulty for people not growing up with 3d games just managing the camera + movement. Kind of how I feel looking at high level Fortnite play where the rapid fire build play layered on top of usual fps gunplay is just one layer too much complexity for my experiences growing up with fps only video games.
- MBCook 8mo agoI’ve played tons of 3D games, ever since they started coming out. I could never get very far in GTA 3 or Vice City because of the controls. I tried when they came out and I think I tried again later. It wasn’t looking around, that was never a problem. The shooting controls were abysmal. If I ended up in a fight with more than one person I was pretty much guaranteed to die. GTA 4 was the first of the main line series where the controls were good enough for me to enjoy the whole game.
- NetOpWibby 8mo agoI need GTA II on modern consoles. I've begged Rockstar for years but I'm just a single person in their contact form.
- ohyes 8mo agoI remember when there was a kid who kept installing this and the Chex doom on the school pcs in 7th grade. GTA was pretty controversial as a game even though it is incredibly tame by today’s standards. I’m pretty sure they never caught him.
- amatecha 8mo agoI got in trouble for bringing Doom shareware and putting it on one of the computers in the lab at school... worth, though - had half the class exclaiming at the awesomeness until we got busted hahaha
- AbraKdabra 8mo agoOpened the game, picked a car and immediately went over the Hare Krishnas. Fucking classic, I remember playing this game at school somehow, then played GTA2 until my eyes bled, amazing games.
- The_President 8mo agoGoranga!
- hirako2000 8mo agoThat it's geo blocked in the UK, where the IP of the games originates makes me feel that's illegal even though no modern release is legitimately available.
- growt 8mo agoAn interesting fact about the early GTA games is that they owe their success to a bug. The cop cars were supposed to behave nicely like in every other game, but due to a bug in pathfinding they just drive straight into the players car. So at least to some extend the whole billion dollar franchise owes its success to a bug: https://medium.com/@bdunn313/the-psycho-cop-bug-de9121335cf9 https://medium.com/@bdunn313/the-psycho-cop-bug-de9121335cf9
- nolok 8mo agoIt's true while also hiding a lot of the truth. It's a bug... That happened during development, and when they saw it decided to keep it and make it normal behavior. It's not like they released the game without noticing the cop cars were super aggressive.
- rolfus 8mo agoI used to play GTA on my 133 mhz Pentium, running windows 95. I distinctly remember the game running smooth and at a reasonably high resolution! My memory must have betrayed me because playing this now is hard to stomach. I just can't get over the jaggy motion of the hardlocked framerate (especially while driving at high speeds).
- conorcleary 8mo agoGoing back to arrow keys from WASD to emulate old games is an upgrade path I didn't realize I took without looking back
- pezgrande 8mo agoI played GTA III at like 14-16 fps. After a while you brain get used to it and feels a like a smooth experience. Maybe we have frame generation integrated in our brains? or just happens when we are kids? idk.
- stuaxo 8mo agoInteresting from a retro-perspective that there is chat there that getting the other 2D GTAs working in DOS should be possible too.
- spocchio 8mo agoYou could already play it "easy and without installation" with DOSBox for browsers: https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-1997/ https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-1997/
- randomtoast 8mo agoI think it should also be possible to mod it into a browser version. I think even GTA Vice City runs in browser.
- tetris11 8mo agoBefore a DMCA takedown from TakeTwo
- randomtoast 8mo agoI mean you can takedown a website hosting the JavaScript/WASM Version of Vice City, but if you just host the JavaScript/WASM on localhost:8080 then TakeTwo cannot take it down.
- INTPenis 8mo agoA core memory for me is playing GTA on my PC when my brother was home from one of his many stints in jail. He looked at me playing for a minute, asked what it was about, and then commented "whatever happened to super mario?".
- eagrt4tdg 8mo agoI believe a few years back the 3 top view ones were downloadable for free on rockstars website. Wasn't aware they did not run on pcs anymore.