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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.
I've seen the opposite happen, where games are first freeware, then changed to a shareware or other license because they realized all the oodles of cash they could make off of it. I don't think that is a good practice and if more companies follow Rockstar's exmaple, they will have many more happy gamers that will gladly support their other products by purchasing them legitimately.
Ahh...the memories.
Downloading it now at 234KB/sec. Ah, the joy of subscription!
anyone tested it with winex yet? I really love that game!
Damn, I already paid for it :(
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But then concidering wine(x) is crap, most probably not.
Oh well, since most of them won't make money by doing it, probably they won't...but here's some wishful thinking ;)
Can anyone afford the OS to run it on?
Three comments and their out.
Here, along with GTA London and GTA 2.
looks like we hijacked their server.
of course, you have to pay for your bandwidth. Not only that, but if you don't subscribe to Slashdot, you don't get to download the game 'in the future' and have to compete with all the bourgoise.
I submitted a story yesterday about this.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
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.
Since nobody around here really gives a crap about what the various companies think anywho, would someone please put this up on Kazaa or one of the other P2P networks? If we can make a habit of doing this when binaries are available then future /.ings might be somewhat abated.
this site has already been shacknewsed, bluesnewsed, posted on several big news forums, and likely more high traffic locations. now slashdotted!
oh the pain.
"Free game for anyone who paid the Microsoft tax?"
A little bitter about this are we?
~S
Anyone else think these kinds of games are partly the reason why we're going to invade Iraq, North Korea, and various African countries once we're done there?
Violence breed violence and encourages hate. Why do we love to hate?
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How does a summary of a story about a free game become a microsoft bashing opportunity?
This is just about the most childish story post I have ever seen Hemos.
Free software is evil.
:P
Cop killing video games are evil! You have to repent to the lord Gates and be forgiven of your sins, washed away by the blood of the lame (Jobs).
Actually, never played the game myself. I remember ALL of the churches and law enforcement agencies in my area pitched a raving hissy fit though.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Are they releasing the entire game, or just an updated executable? What made the original so good was the soundtrack ( IMHO ), and I'd love to hear all my old favorites again.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
An unknown suspect, or suspects, rammed the Rockstar Games server, waited for the admin to get out and then reversed over them several times.
police suspect slashdotting...
but people are playing the exact same games everywhere else in the world (the guys who did GTA are Scottish, BTW). Yet for some reason you don't see Scotland bombing every little country they can get away with, do you? Violent video games are not the reason.
Or do you think Saddam Hussein started making WMD's after too many rounds of Command & Conquer..?
What these guys have finally realized is that a game's value to its creator is first (obviously) as a revenue generator, but after newer versions have obsoleted the old product, it's more useful in terms of marketing as a giveaway. I for one, haven't ever purchased any of these games, but I'll give this a try, and who knows, they might just pick up a new customer. Enlightened self-interest works again!
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Did anyone else find the full version somewhat lacking after playing the demo for weeks? It was just that after you had unlimited time, you actually needed to calm down and play nicely so that you'd stay alive.
With the demo, you had only a short amount of time, and you could _almost_ finish all four missions successfully in the time given, if you were really fast. Attempting to get all four in one insane speed-mayhem rush was the most fun I've had playing a video game, _ever_. The full version just didn't provide the same level of excitement.
The Microsoft tax? I paid no tax for my operating system. When I bought my computer I fairly compensated programmers for their hours of work. If you don't like their products, fine, but nobody is making you use them (don't even try it...they aren't). I assume when I drive my car I'm paying the Honda tax? Is this concept of paying people for their work a new thing to you people? Grow up and stop bitching and calling it the "Microsoft tax." While you're at it, stop replacing the S in MS with a dollar sign. Maybe you enjoy getting something for nothing, but I'm sure there are some people out there who enjoy eating and living in a real live house. 'Cause GPL doesn't pay the bills.
I want Commander Keen !!!
It's well-said and true.
Ah, this is great! I'll have to see if it differs from the original release.
But, if you don't have the original disk and you want a good CD to match the game, I suggest: Sugar Ray: Lemonade and Brownies. No other CD I've found fits the game so perfectly. The faster the car, the faster and harder driving the music.
Even the music when you are on foot is hilarious!
Now I'm never going to be able to through to that server.
Not warezing either!
GTA 1 & 2 have been available for free download from a few sites for a while now. Forgotten the exact site, but GTA2 is sitting on my HD as we speak.
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.
I hate this term. Goddamn do I hate this term. I paid $200 retail for my copy of windows 2000 and I have not had it crash on me or throttle my data with a stick. All I've done to it is install patches. In the same time, my friend's dumped about 500 hours into his linux box, with an additional 1-10 hours every time he wants to install something new, checking contingencies, updating each library one at a time, and all from a prompt.
Look, I'm a developer. I've written software for everything from a pocket pc to an as/400 adn that's included some work in linux. It's a nice unix. But it doesn't bridge the essential gap into the home market: it doesn't let me do what I want to do (like, say, play GTA) without forcing me to learn a whole bunch of things I shouldn't need to learn. A home user shouldn't have to learn how to "compile" everything. My toaster doesn't expect me to heat the coils myself!
So I paid $200 for remarkably less hassle. I wish all taxes were so painless.
I do think it sucks that you have to pay for windows even if you're not going to use it. But look at it this way: you probably spent less than I did at CompUSA. And everybody loves a bargain.
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the wires are bursting into flames.
That is extremely cool of them!
Remember when Sierra Online did this a few years back. They put out one of the Krondor games, plus a few others. It was cool to download a full game but it sort of became obvious why it ended up being free.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
Actually, if someone reverse engineered the network protocol and made a server for it that allowed persistent multiplayer GTA I that would be bloody fantastic. It seems that everyone is making MMORPGs now, but they're all spending too much effort on the graphics, and not enough on gameplay. (Except for a couple of notable entrenched examples which have crappy graphics, but have become extremely popular. You know what they are.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
When a for profit, proprietary company releases something for free, rest assured they will want something in return, ie.. information off of your computer they can sell to big brother.
Are you guys really that stupid?
But then concidering wine(x) is crap, most probably not.
I'm not a native speaker, so I am always happy to learn new idioms. Does "concidering" mean "drink some cider together"? Please concider this with me!
This sounds like a nice thing... altho I think what Carmack did was much cooler.. GPL the engine and still charge for the data file. If Rockstar games did this, they might even find plenty of volunteers ready to port this thing to OpenGL.
-- Knowledge shared is power lost. -- Aleister Crowley
free game for anyone that's paid the Microsoft tax!
Not quite. The problem of the microsoft tax is that you pay it, even if you do not buy their software.
If I'm not mistaken, there was a site in the past (a year ago or so) which offered the game legally for free already. The only problem was you had to get the different pieces by clicking various banners and answering questions.
It sounds like a warez site, but it wasn't - they went bankrupt though and I can't really recall its name.
Anyway, it's always nice to get it without too much hassle.
This is great news.
:)
Now my pirated version is legal.
Actually, Europeans have had violence selectively bred out of them for centuries, through emigration, genocide and mass starvation. Violence, self defense and gun ownership are all negative traits according to the Hague based New World Order, and Europe is the beta test in reducing humans to sheeple.
The initial secular humanist cabal was satisfied using the colonies as a safety valve to eliminate violence prone individuals, figuring that the natives in the colonies (Zulus, Iroquios, Bantu, Thugges, Pollywogs and Slantees) would kill most of them, and leave the more harmless ones in Europe. Not believing in God, they didn't take God into account, who so generously provided a fecund new Jerusalem in America, where right thinking God Fearing men could subdue and populate a whole continent, Kentucky long rifle in one hand, Bible in the other.
Once the colonies were full or free, the ruling cabal had to find another way to get rid of the free thinking men who worshipped God and not man. It's not a coincidence that the most fervent Christians in the British Empire suffered a British genrerated Potato Famine in the 1870's.
Finally, the humanists attempted genocide to purge Europe of men who would defend their rights with their lives. The Jews were the first to be targetted, one only needs a cursory glance at the history of Isreal to realize what a fierce opponent to soul degrading secular humanism the Jewish race would be.
Which pretty much brings us to today. The New World Order, based in the HAgue, is slowly grinding down Europenis into sub-humans, preventing them from fully achieving their full human potential, including the ability to fight for what you believe in. Teletubbies and happy, passive, non-violent vide games are part of the insidious conspiracy. Fortunately, there are enough God Fearing, right thinking men who will fight for the right for men to worship God instead of nebulous concepts like Gaia, ecology, feminism, astronomy and humanism in America, Israel and Saudi Arabia. For those of us blessed enough to live in one of God's chosen places, all we can do is pray for the poor souls being tortured in the soul crashing socialist hellhole that is Europe, and perhaps ship them a few handguns enclosed in the cases of Budweiser that we ship overseas to sate the European hunger for fine, beechwood aged corn beer.
..continue updating Windows 3.11 for all eternity? RedHat, their 1.0 release?
Hell, should Ford continue to produce parts for the Model T?
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and as such, programmers working for you need to be paid.
Any company that pays their programmers to work on free software, when the company's only source of revenue is selling software, will be visited by the Stockholder Inquisition. And rightfully so.
Once in awhile, you could probably get away with diverting a few programmers to work on something like this. It could be a useful PR ploy. (In this case, I can't see that happening. The latest GTAs have been selling like hotcakes, and if they make another, that will sell just as well from the looks of it.)
Now, what companies should consider doing is releasing the source itself, and washing their hands of the entire thing (save, perhaps, for a 'no profit for you!' license.)..
This gives them a PR boost (yay), saves money by not wasting the time of their programmers (yay!), and ultimately, stocks the industry with new talent. There's plenty of people out there who'd like to get into working on games. Buying a license to an engine usually isn't a good idea for them - they're usually too expensive and will be overwhelming.
If they had something to tinker on, for free, that'd be great. After all, in gaming, like any other programming discipline, the basics are the basics.
I get the feeling this may be just something that comes from Rockstar being a relatively cool company. Their UK offices are just round from my brother's in Leith, and from their thankyou note to the pond in VC (the pub down the road from the office, and best pub I've ever been to) they do seem fairly cool guys.
Now, if more companies were like this, and less corporately minded then maybe we'd see more of this kind of thing.
and use a throwaway address. The address I gave them *is* "throwaway@[domain]"-- I never check it unless I've signed up for something and have to be sent a password or link.
It should give spammers pause, because it's rather clear by the address that that's its sole purpose.
I can't get to the site, so apologies if it's answered there.
Are they releasing the source too, as I think ID did with Doom?
That way we can kill processes by crashing into them. But seriously, if there is source released, we can get it ported to Linux.
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GTA1 runs great with WineX.
*What* loyal customers would be rewarded with this? If they're loyal, they already bought the game!
I seem to recall my freshman year of college, those with faster Pentium-based computers played Quake with cracked copies.
Those with slower machines opted for multiplayer GTA, which was also not paid for. Unlike Quake, I was led to believe that this was the norm for GTA, and that compared to the sales, the number of GTA "users" was staggering. But this might have something to do with the fact that stores refused to carry the product.
Anyway, this is hardly amazing news, as there were already patches for GTA back in the day that allowed for Glide accelerated graphics ( for all that fixed overhead angle texture-scaling ). Moving it to Direct3D is simply a small step in the same direction.
But, then again, there are dozens of classic software titles that could receive a similar treatment. But the companies don't want to let go of anything remotely valuable, and even make up excuses about having to support a free product. I would not be surprised if the GTA community takes up most of the support slack on this one, so maybe that will blow one of the most common developer's excuses right out of the water.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
I'm sure GTA was available from Freeloader some time ago. GTA London as well.
When I got the email from Rockstar last week about downloading GTA for free I deleted it thinking it was bogus spam.A modern game that will run on Linux :-)
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Have fun.
Wonderful.
I've just weaned my 11 year-old off the mindless violence that is (PS2) GTA Vice City, and now he gets to go back in time on his computer and kill people without even having to buy the game.
Of course, this comes at a time when I'm trying to get him interested in Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance so he can become a more productive sneaky assassin type.
Way to go, Konami!
Society loves video games, and a host of other fun activities that don't actually involve killing living people. Except maybe certain people in Iraq, Soviet Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, the Old West, Nazi Germany, the White House, Cambodia....
Damn, well I guess I don't like killing other people, I can't say much for the rest of you whackos, just keep back.
*runs into his house locks the door and draws the blinds*
-- taking over the world, we are.
Someone please put up a P2P link of the game. I'd do it myself except the site is slashdotted.
Shareaza is good if you use windows.
yes, it's an slightly updated version from the one's they originally bought. aren't you paying attention?
why run from Vincenzo?
I know there are two GTA's before GTA3, but I've never seen them (PS2 is my first game console after my 8bit NES) until recently. I saw the headline and the story and I automatically assumed they meant GTA3! Damn, what a disappointment, I would have liked to see the hi-res GTA3 without buying what I've already bought for the PS2. Oh well, guess it's a good time to check out where it all came from :-).
Im sitting here desperatly trying to get settlers (the first in the series) to run under dosemu (great project btw) and it occurred to me. Why doesn't Bluebyte release this under the GPL or something like that? It's not like they are selling huge quantities of this game.
It's almosed impossible to properly run this game with sound and everything on a modern PC unless your modern PC happends to have a legacy sb16 awe ISA card.
If they released old titles perhaps small communities would pop up not to mention the good will the company would get.
just my $.02
I paid for that, and have it on CD. Still runs just fine on win2k even though it's so old.
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.
Why do we love to hate?
Well, I've already learned to love to hate you, so it must not have anything to do with games and more to do with what a vicious asshole i am.
why run from Vincenzo?
* NOTE: The information you provide on this form may be collected even if you are not eligible to download the game.
Anyone not eligible?
Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel
LinuxPosted by CowboyNeal in The Mysterious Future!
from the speed-bump-removal dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux kernel team is at it again. Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently proposed a patch to offer interactive processes a boost, greatly benefiting the X desktop, as well as music and movie players. O(1) scheduler author Ingo Molnar merged Linus' patch into his own interactivity efforts, the end result nothing short of amazing... The upcoming 2.6 kernel is looking to be a desktop user's dream come true."
Once they make the bulk of the $$, create sequels and release the orginal.. Create honest intrest in the new stuff.
Great for them, perhaps others can take the hint..
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Don't get me wrong, I commend Rockstar for distributing a great game like GTA free of charge, but why not give the source also while they are at it? Since the game engine is completely different than the one used in GTA3 and Vice City they really don't have to worry about competition arising from modifications to the source code of the original GTA.
:P ). The FreeSpace Source Code Project was formed and has made many enhancements to the game. They recently released FS2 Open version 3.5 which adds OpenGL support, the ability to add custom movies to mission briefings, many new weapons, damage decals, and ship trails just to name a few things.
One great example of how releasing the source brings benefits to fans of a game is Descent Freespace 2. Early last year Volition released the source code to the game. I know personally I enjoyed hacking around with it a bit for fun (and playing make believe that I coded games for a living instead of backend java apps
Releasing the source to GTA would undoubtedly spawn similar projects to enhance what is still a great game, and who knows some of the ideas the community may come up with could help Rockstar out with new innovations for latest games in the series.
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So the connection is slow already, and to speed it up loads, what do you do?
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Post it on
And who says people are dumb?
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I am truly impressed. There are so many old games that I would LOVE to see released like this just because they're classics. (Maxis kind of did the same by creating a java applet of the Original Sim City that will run off their site.)
Half of them are games once bought that no longer run on modern PCs. So I've already spent the money. Populous, Warcraft I, all the old sierra games, etc.
It's really nice of them to release an updated copy but I'd appreciate just releasing the source even more.
I don't mind supporting a company that does this one bit!
Way to go guys!
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Cracked quake copies?
There was no protection at all for Quake.
...that was my a$$hole..
I've posted up a Gnutella 2 link on Sharelive. Download using Shareaza.
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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I suggest creating a BitTorrent for it. BitTorrent is open source software written in an open language for both Linux and Windows. Here is a link to a great BitTorrent site. BitTorrent makes better use of your bandwidth than Kazaa or GNUtella. It is important to note that BitTorrent is just a swarming and segmented downloading technology that allows someone with limited bandwidth to provide a large file to 1000s of downloaders.
Already done:i ew.php? pid=3517
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I will boycott his until they release a Mac version!
That'll show'em...
Transgaming's WineX shows how well it *shines* on compex Direct3D games like Grand Theft Auto.
I have not tried running Grand Theft Auto using WineX, Codeweavers Wine, or ReWind; Transgaming has verry much distinguished its version of Wine far from these others in respects of using specifically games that require strict compatibility with DirectX.
"... 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! ..."
You really are an open-source socialist zealot aren't you? Anything that's not free and/or open is bad, right?
John Kerry is a Joke!
...ALL of the churches and law enforcement agencies in my area pitched a raving hissy fit...
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When I bought my DEC Alpha, I was forced to pay an extra $300 USD for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. The computer costed me a total of $1,400.00 and I bought it at the minimum features yet couldn't go lower because of this forced Microsoft Tax. At the time, I was using RedHat Linux 5.2 on my Alpha; I could not return Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 for a refund, neither Microsoft honored their license terms to return it for a complete refund. $300.00 out of my pocket was a significan ammount of money towards the cost of this hardware of which the software I needed to use and develop with was Linux-based. RedHat 5.2 for the Alpha costed me $70.00 and I was able to download updates and patches and believe-it-or-not my Alpha system to this day is just a RedHat 5.2 that had been updated-through-the-eyes to be the near-equivalent of the latest RedHat 8.0.
I do not like Microsoft's use of coersion of their software. Microsoft is dishonerable, they do not honor their laws, they force themselves on everyone that is sentient, and they are predatory to companies that honor business laws and contracts.
Microsoft should've been revoked for the business world, but now they most-likely never will or at the least be controlled by a subjugative and even-more disgusting government.
When I bought my DEC Alpha, I was forced to pay an extra $300 USD for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. The computer costed me a total of $1,400.00 and I bought it at the minimum features yet couldn't go lower because of this forced Microsoft Tax. At the time, I was using RedHat Linux 5.2 on my Alpha; I could not return Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 for a refund, neither Microsoft honored their license terms to return it for a complete refund. $300.00 out of my pocket was a significan ammount of money towards the cost of this hardware of which the software I needed to use and develop with was Linux-based. RedHat 5.2 for the Alpha costed me $70.00 and I was able to download updates and patches and believe-it-or-not my Alpha system to this day is just a RedHat 5.2 that had been updated-through-the-eyes to be the near-equivalent of the latest RedHat 8.0.
I do not like Microsoft's use of coersion of their software. Microsoft is dishonerable, they do not honor their laws, they force themselves on everyone that is sentient, and they are predatory to companies that honor business laws and contracts.
Microsoft should've been revoked for the business world, but now they most-likely never will or at the least be controlled by a subjugative and even-more disgusting government.
if the official server wouldn't be down all the thime. are there already mirrors available?
On the net and kAzAa, Gnutella, etc, there are MUCH smaller versions of GTA1, 28meg, full game.
What's with the 300+ megs??
Crap...I would love to give this a try but I have not had a windows machine for years -- and I am giving up trying to find my misplaced "disk 5" floppy of Win 95. 1-4 + 6-* does not work! I wonder what would happen if I called Redmond and told them I need them to ship me a replacement :)
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
Waited an hour in line to download. Finally my hour wait ends, a download window pops up, so I click ok. What would you expect the download to be? None other than the latest MS bloated media player. By the time I noticed it was half installed, probably screwed up a bunch of stuf canceling it -_-
Any rate tactics like this are cr*p. I'd expect this from Banzi Buddy and the P2P types but this is a new low for file planet. BTW, the dl option is a link, kill whatever pops up then click the link to dl.
Unlike GTA 3, GTA 1 was actually fun! I loved this game!
GTA is an entirely 2D, top-down arcade style game. OpenGL is a great 3D API.
Gee, reminds me of what it might feel like if I put one of Shaq's shoes on my feet. Great shoe, wrong application.
But.
:(
Downloaded fine, installed a little choppy (had to manually kill the decompression process before I could run the setup.exe), went into the game.
The game runs extremely choppy on my machine* and sound is muffled. Just to add insult to injury, it no longer looks for a music CD in the drive. So much for Music to Carjack To.
(*: P4 2.4, Win2K, DX9, 512 megs, GF3, TBSC)
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Gamer's Hell has got mirrors up. Feel free to slashdot FileHell!
Those idiots used WAVs instead of mp3s or oggs. As a result, the game itself takes 57 megs, and the music - whooping 320 megs. Just think about all the wasted bandwidth...
That's why the server's slow as hell, they're using that god awful bastard child of ASP-cum-C++ interpreted language, PHP! With this kind of track record, I surely hope their forthcoming games won't be written in VB..
One of the reasons why the original GTA is near the top of my "Fave games" list, is that it was increadibly hard. With the modern concept, of being able to "save" wherever you want, or maybe just alot, hardcore gaming has virtually dissapeared. GTA Managed to get around this, by having huge levels, that took ages to complete.
:)
The last of the 6 levels, required you to get $5,000,000 iirc, a task that took all afternoon. I've never met anyone in RL who actually managed to complete the whole game without cheating. Everyone who i knew who played it, just used to use the large amounts of cheats to mess around and have fun. In any of the online conversations i've had about it, i've also never come accross anyone who finished it without cheating. Is there anyone else out there who was hardcore enough to complete this game?
I had it on the PSX when it first came out, and i managed to finish it about 6months later. The greatest gaming achievement of my life? Well, if i go another 5 years without finding anyone else who managed to complete it, then i'd have to say yes
Long live hardcore gaming! \o/
http://www.intimidated.f2s.com/sharelive/view.php? pid=3517
:-)
Notice all the sites are getting swamped?
Since Macintosh OS X is actually Unix, theoretically you could use the console to talk to a Linux machine so that it would send information to you so that you could run WineX on Macintosh, which would therefore run Grand Theft Auto. Ta-da.
magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:XGQZFUZTR2Y52Y3LGJV6S4R3KG WLHS4S.EIBKFTN4D52JWD2BLA5QP2KH5XJ7S74H3A26VRA&dn= gtainstaller.zip
gnutella://urn:bitprint:XGQZFUZTR2Y52Y3LGJV6S4R3KG WLHS4S.EIBKFTN4D52JWD2BLA5QP2KH5XJ7S74H3A26VRA/gta installer.zip/
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Won't somebody please think of the children?!?!?!
Grand Theft Auto is teh suck.
Maxis has published some of the old SimWhatever games, in boxes containing 3 games. I got the one containing SimTower, City, and Isle. Interesting to see how dated SimCity 95 (real version 2.0 I think) looks compared to SimIsle and SimTower.
I've often wondered how much code Maxis can reuse in all these different "Sim" games, since the basic ideas in all of them are pretty similar.
Electronic Arts, which has done things I don't like, did at least release a whole bunch of their earlier games in simplified "manual-less" packages for about $5 (once they hit the street). BioForge
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."
Not only did you get it wrong about copy protection on Quake. But your completly wrong about 3D GTA.
It was never running on "Glide" (that was for windows and 3DFX only worked in DOS for GTA). Also it was never "ported" there was only 1 version of GTA to come out, no paches, no fixes, no PORTING.
GTA1 did have a 3DFX mode but it used direct hardware access in DOS, (no API). Just like all DOS 3DFX games.
There was a tiny patch/hack that was created by the community but that simply enabled the Banshee series 3DFX cards to work with the game, since that was a bit funky.
Wow, great news! I guess when you sell over 8 million copies of your new game, you can afford to let an older one go!
I've never played any game in the GTA series, but have been intrigued by it and have wanted to try it out. When the site recovers from being slashdotted, I will download GTA1 and give it a try. I love games where you get to play the role of a bad guy! Rockstar might just have gained another customer here.
I wish more companies would release their older games for free. There are only two others I know of: Id Software (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom) open-sourced their older game engines (but without levels/content), and Bill Budge completely released his Apple ][ games (Pinball Construction Set, etc.) to the public domain!
Will Rockstar Games allow peer-to-peer networks to legally carry their GTA1 download, now that they have released it for free? If so, it would ease a huge burden on their site.
Also, will abandonware sites be allowed to carry the game without fear of legal hassle? That would be great if abandonware sites could set up a special collection of "freed" games that would be legally free to download and share.
Dr. Demento On The 'Net!
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/gamershell/demo/GT AINSTALLER.ZIP
my copy of Windows was free too.
:)
Windows is only free if your time is free.
As MS likes to remind us (foolishly, since they lose by this measure), maintenance and admin costs have to be considered too. I used to have a dual-boot system, and after a year, I'd had constant problems with Windows, and had been forced to reinstall 5 times, while Linux had worked flawlessly the entire time. So I dumped the Windows partition and bought myself a Playstation (and a copy of GTA, to keep this oh-so-vaguely on topic:).
So Balmer was just speaking in tongues?
Caesar? You can find the original Caesar at this site.
It was a poorly documented piece of shit that didn't even work right. Was it written by a retarded 14 year old?
ed2k://|file|GTAINSTALLER.zip|344378270|cb0feda0e2 39041889b462cf3a566d0e|/
:)
Enjoy
It's too bad companies don't have an incentive to release their copyrighted works into the public domain.
Hrm. Here's a thought on copyright reform:
Make all copyrights viable for 100 years from the date of the creation, period. The first year, the author is capable of receiving full royalties on their works. The next year, a 1% "copyright tax" is levied, to help administrate the copyright system, and as a sort of "copyright social security". Each year thereafter, that tax is increased by 1% - so you receive 100% of your revenue the first year, 99% the second, 98% the third, and so on. Make it a special 'income tax' for copyright holders.
Now, here's the cinch: As copyright holder, you can choose to release your work into the public domain at any time. By doing so, you get back a percentage of the money you paid into the system in taxes, based on the number of years left (i.e., if you had 19 years left until the copyright expired, releasing it into the public domain 19 years early would give you 19% of the total taxes you paid in over the last 81 years).
Any remaining money can be thrown at whatever bullshit "arts endowment" projects Congress seems to hold so dear, so long as the law stipulates that ONLY that money can go into the NEA. I.e., let the system feed back into itself.
What do you think, Sirs?
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
everywhere I am seeing wants me to reg or is slashdotted. any links that are working?
thx
ej
The phrase "For free" is not good English. One can receive something for _nothing_ or just _free_.
...old though it may be, Nintendo has done something similar with The Ocarina of Time and a previously unreleased Remix for experts called OOT: Master Quest.
If you reserve Zelda: Wind Waker you get a free OOT/MQ disc at any store that is participating.
I picked mine up, and it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. OOT remixed for the gamecube and pretty much given away free to Zelda fans. I love seeing things like this.
Square has been remixing their early Final fantasy classics and selling them for about $30. This is fine, I suppose, if you are truly a fan of the old games. But I'm thinking the games are so old they really aren't even worth $30 unless you are just a Final Fantasy Fan that absolutely WANTS to replay the original in a remixed form. And while the games are great, I think the number of people who will pay $30 is much smaller than the number who would play the game if it were included free with something like Final Fantasy X-2.
I love retrogaming, and I embrace every attempt the developers make at giving me the option to play my classic favorites. But oviously I would like to see more companies go the "Free Classics" route.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
It has been mirrored on sunet here:ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/gamershell/de mo/GTAINSTALLER.ZIP
Print Shop -- there's a name I haven't heard in years.
Are they still making updates to that program?
Karnal
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.
The demo CD was a locked full copy. Once you paid for it, you could play the full version.
The Slashcode puts a space in the middle; hence the invalid link.
The hash is correct. I've checked it against my download and on Jigle.
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GTA for free, lets steal Bill's car too.
Oh I don't know...
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I just installed it on my (hey, I'm being truthful) XP box. Ran the GTA settings file for setup. Ran the game. Not only does the game run very sluggish, but when I change video modes to ANYTHING 16-bit and even some of the 32-bit modes, my computer restarts. I've never seen this behavior before with any piece of software...game or otherwise. The ORIGINAL version ran better than that on this machine!
I wouldn't waste your time trying to download it.
It runs great on the highest resolution with 32bit colour on my old PIII 450 with a 64MB GFX card running W98 using DX8.1
You tried new gfx card drivers?
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I had to download the file 4 times from rockstars server to get it right. the first 3 times it was corrupted and i dont even rmember the number of times that it wouldnt even go through.
2 39041889b462cf3a566d0e|/
MD5 Hash: 4f9a85123002a5f34833b6ff2ff0de90
eMule Link: ed2k://|file|GTAINSTALLER.ZIP|344378270|cb0feda0e
for some reason there is a space in the ed2k link when i preview between a 2 and 3. if you see that just remove it and it should work. have fun blowin stuff up old skool style
~Tommy Boomfiger http://www.gotapex.com/forums
I have a P3 1 GHz, 640 Mb RAM, 32 MB GeForece2 GTS, XP, DX9. nvidia 29.42 drivers. The ones higher than that (that I've tried) caused graphical glitches just sitting at the desktop. I think I tried 32.xx and 40.xx or something around there. I doubt these drivers are causing a problem as all of my many other games run great. I swear it feels exactly the same as the original. My character moves so slowly it's like he's walking through water. And of course the rebooting I mentioned.
Check out Freespace 2, which is probably the the best mission based space sim of the last 5 years. Volition released its source and there's a linux port on the way.
It ran extremely choppy on my machine as well. I tried doing everyhing possible to get it to run, and finally got it fixed.
What worked for me was turning off hardware accelleration on my sound card. Hope this helps.
Taken down "due to Rockstar Games request"
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
A novice asked the master: "In the east there is a great tree-structure
that men call 'Corporate Headquarters'. It is bloated out of shape with
vice-presidents and accountants. It issues a multitude of memos, each saying
'Go, Hence!' or 'Go, Hither!' and nobody knows what is meant. Every year new
names are put onto the branches, but all to no avail. How can such an
unnatural entity exist?"
The master replies: "You perceive this immense structure and are
disturbed that it has no rational purpose. Can you not take amusement from
its endless gyrations? Do you not enjoy the untroubled ease of programming
beneath its sheltering branches? Why are you bothered by its uselessness?"
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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