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Grand Theft Auto Released For Free
Snover writes "It's already incredibly difficult to actually get to the site due to its extreme popularity, and can only get worse after the inevitable slashdotting, but Rockstar Games has updated their original hit, Grand Theft Auto, to run on 'modern' computers and released it for free to the public. It'd be nice if more gaming companies did this! Unfortunately, it (of course) is Windows-only and utilises the propietary DirectX API, but hey, free game for anyone that's paid the Microsoft tax! (The download speed, once you actually manage to connect to the site, is quite excellent -- it's maxing out my 2Mbps connection.)" Ah, what a classic game.
Here, along with GTA London and GTA 2.
When I last looked at the site (a year ago, admittidly), it had GTA1 up for download then.
Quick look shows it has GTA2, Hidden & Dangerous, and many others available for free download. All you have to do is watch some ads on your screen whilst the files download.
The download is 328MB, so I imagine it includes the sound.
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=2398
I'm guessing there are many other places also to download it from. But if you are willing to wait in line for it at fileshack, its another option.
Its not what it is, its something else.
GTA1 runs great with WineX.
It seems like that you do not understand the "Microsoft Tax" term.
It is called so because you pay it EVEN if you do NOT want Windows (or DOS in the old days).
Your Linux/Windows comparsion clearly falls into the "Troll" category.
Real life is overrated.
this is what you get after you put your details in
We have received your information; unfortunately, we cannot provide you with this download at this time.
they should put this BEFORE you register.
Well, it is not completely free, but if you by Return to Wolfenstein, it does come with a copy of the original Wolf 3D. At no extra charge even!
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Iraq has never attacked the USA!
Iraq has never attacked the USA!
Are you really so brainwashed that you cannot see that simple fact? Oh wait, only people in other countries get brainwashed, not people in the USA. We have an objective view of the world, while everyone else does not. Ha! Ok, so this answers my question. You are brainwashed. Yes, the USA bombed the hell out of the already war torn Afganistan. Nothing they hadn't seen already... just more death and destruction, and yet again the ruling government changes hands. Yes, the USA rebuilt Japan and Germany, but the same isn't being done for Afganistan. The new Afgani leader is not being given enough economic aid to properly rebuild a society's infustructure, as was done in Japan, for example. Instead, the USA concerned itself with liberal issues such as a women's right to wear whatever clothes she wishes.
While such freedom is important, it is hardly core to building a solid productive society. For that you need plumbing, electricity, transportation, telecommunications, health care, education, and industry. Meat and potatoes, not the cherry on top.
Drug production is more popular than ever, in parts of Afganistan. In fact, the drug trade was kept under control during Taliban rule. Now Afganistan and surrounding countries have increased problems with opiate traffiking and addiction. I don't believe in a war on drugs, especially when drugs like pot are included... but opiates are far more serious. So yeah, the USA really helped out with that country.
USA the republic is long since dead. Long live USA the empire! Just in case you don't know your history, after empire comes the fall.
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Many of the older games have timing loops, which expect to take a certain time, but newer CPUs basically optimize those loops out, so they seem to take 0 time. I know that the old Origin game Strike Commander wouldn't run on a Pentium 100 without rebooting into the BIOS, and turning off the CPU cache.
So, to go along with the "never assume the input length is less than a constant", we have "never assume that there's a minimum time to complete an operation."
--paul
-- Every time you kill a kitten, God masturbates.
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If you are having problems launching setup.exe in WindowsXP, rename the install folder from GTAINSTALLER to something like GTA and it'll run succesfully.