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Play GTA Vice City in the Browser
- d3Xt3r 29d agoRelevant: https://dos.zone/ https://dos.zone/
- DaOne256 29d agoWhat the kids call "DOS games" nowadays... Half of the games on this list are for Windows 95 or later. The site should call them PC games. Okay Boomer...
- embedding-shape 29d agoAt one point during it's usage, words just stop accurately describing what it is, and starts communicating a vibe or something instead. Just like "DOS Games", "MIDI" which is just data in reality, but people started associating it with chiptune, so somehow some people now mix the terms and call chiptune "Midi Music", yet chiptune have nothing to do with MIDI the protocol/.mid the fileformat.
- r_lee 29d agobut... then people can't constantly pretend they're smarter by telling others I.e. "the kids" what the original meanings are :(
- kalaksi 29d agoIn technical contexts it's often still important to use words accurately so in that sense it might not lose it's original meaning completely. I've come to accept that everyday language can be messy and inaccurate and one can't always get it right especially if they're not familiar enough with the topic. You can still get the meaning across well-enough.
- octochamp 29d agoIt's funny how frequently we point and shout at semantic drift when we see it, when it's such a natural part of how we use language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
- embedding-shape 29d agoApropos: > Fun - [...] earlier "a cheat, trick" (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) "to cheat, hoax," - https://www.etymonline.com/word/funny https://www.etymonline.com/word/funny
- tosti 29d agoInteresting. I've had lots of fun with noclip cheats.
- Y_Y 29d agoYa, just like pointing and shouting at infectious diseases
- boomlinde 29d agoPeople don't generally refer to these old Windows games as "DOS games", though.
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- pogue 29d agoIt's Vice City, not GTA3.
- anotheryou 29d agohere is 3 https://quenq.com/apps/gta-3-online/ https://quenq.com/apps/gta-3-online/
- rzk 29d agoThanks, edited.
- saddist0 29d agoIt feels lovely to use panzer and leavemealone in loop. :")
- JuniperMesos 29d agoIs it just me, or is every radio station broken except Wave 103?
- esskay 29d agoYup seems that way. The irony if they decided to remove them for copyright reasons...
- CLuse101 29d agoAbsolutely fucking amazing, thank you. This tapped into the memory of how I remembered playing GTA III in terms of visuals. Thank you so much, I love this game and the person who made this happen!!
- jheriko 29d ago[dead]
- bastrich 29d agoI opened the link from the mobile, and when I pressed PLAY NOW, some scam links opened and initiated Apple Pay payment on my phone. I'm pretty sure this is not what you intended but still it does what it does.
- cbg0 29d agoMy ublock origin blocked ~20 elements on page load so I'm pretty sure that's intentional.
- weird-eye-issue 29d agoThere is a full screen interstitial ad that appeared right after clicking play now so if you double pressed or lingered a bit or maybe some sort of bug triggered the click then it happened through clicking on that ad
- csomar 29d agoYeah, it side tracked from what is otherwise a surprisingly functional game.
- xpct 29d agoCould someone shed some light on what's the legality of publishing emulated abandonware? I remember not too long ago Half-Life 2's web port got posted, is that still online?
- avaer 29d agoIt's not legal. And in any case it's not abandonware, they're still actively selling these games (maybe not these exact versions, but I doubt a court would see that as a distinction with a difference).
- tgsovlerkhgsel 29d agoUnless they've gotten a license to do it, it's a crystal clear copyright violation, generally done under the assumption/hope that an entity that has abandoned selling the game has also abandoned caring about enforcing its copyrights against such projects.
- lindkvis 29d agoCrystal clear illegal. And AFAIK Rockstar can be litigious.
- 93po 29d agoThe HL2 web port got DMCA'd pretty fast and the group behind it hasn't tried to rehost it
- xpct 29d agoI do feel like posting links to these on HN is a type of soft distribution.
- VCFundedGenYer 29d agoObjectively illegal. I'm unsure why this was even posted here.
- xpct 29d agoProbably because emulators is one of the subjects discussed on this site. Not sure how I feel about it linking to a public web artifact.
- sddsasdasda 29d ago[dead]
- mettamage 29d agoHere is to hoping that GTA 6 will at some point be ready for VR. If any employee is reading this, I would be first in line to play the VR version!
- embedding-shape 29d agoIf not at console launch (which seems unlikely, unless it's a "And one more thing..." feature), it'd be there by the blood and sweat of modders after the PC launch.
- bonoboTP 29d agoFor me the cars and people didn't load in gta3, just the shadow of the car is seen, but you can drive it.
- GeneticGenesis 29d agoThanks for the nostalgia hit!
- tosti 29d agoThis is pretty good! The only trouble I'm having is with walking and driving because the control for that is invisible. Edit: it even resizes and rotates! Cool!
- webglgame 19d ago[flagged]