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Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the prometheus dept.

dan writes " Multi Theft Auto is a third-party modification for Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto San Andreas — and it has become open-source after over four years of closed source development. As a (somewhat) regular player of MTA since the early days of GTAIII, this hit me by surprise, somewhat." (The news is on the project's front page, from which dan extracts more details, below.) dan continues: "Some of the interesting parts of the post: 'Today we are marking a new milestone in the history of Multi Theft Auto. After over 11000 revisions since 2004, contributions by over 16 world-wide developers, 1554 files and well over 550.000 lines of mostly C/C++ code, we have made the decision to re-launch Multi Theft Auto as an open-source project.

By open sourcing our project, we are encouraging anyone who is willing to participate in this project, to participate. For that reason, we are not 'just' offering our source code: we have also opened our bug tracker and will be offering public access to our nightly build system that will be compiling a build every day (and has been long used for testing purposes). This way, any developer will be able to run the latest revisions, file bugs or submit patches.

This is particularly exciting given that the released source is based upon the MTA Blue core, which in theory can be applied to any single player game. The source will no doubt be useful and provide foundations for future projects and the progression of the mod itself.'"

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  1. Now hiring! by narcberry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looking for motivated developers to work on an exciting video game project.

    Must be willing to work for free.

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    1. Re:Now hiring! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      Looking for motivated developers to work on an exciting video game project.

      Must be willing to work for free.

      Looking for motivated philanthropists to work on an exciting underprivileged human life improvement project.

      Must be willing to work for free.

      Oh come on! GTA's attitude is best summed up by the advice "If you kill that hooker, you can get your money back." Comparing it to charity work is a bit silly.

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  2. Re:too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, but you're wrong.
    See how I've provided evidence for all my points?

  3. Time for some open source by sleeponthemic · · Score: 4, Funny

    and hot coffee.

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  4. Re:This is news??? by Jamie's+Nightmare · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, the GP is a troll who hates the idea of closed source software. In order to make use of this project, the GP would have to defile himself by coming into contact with such software. According to the Church of Stallman, that is a sin.

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  5. Re:Anonymity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, maybe it's time I was more open about this then. I wrote the code.

  6. Re:Oh, you don't need cheats. by spandex_panda · · Score: 3, Funny

    thats awesome. I want to bi- and quad-locate someone

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  7. Tell me more, more, more by jonaskoelker · · Score: 3, Funny

    you can pick up hookers in San Andreas and engage in something that makes the car bounce.

    I can't wait to hear. The suspension's killing me.

  8. Re:Oh, you don't need cheats. by X0563511 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What he doesn't tell you is that the taxi-seeing player had picked up an LSD powerup...

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  9. Re:Oh, you don't need cheats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd rather locate a bi.

  10. Re:Anonymity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm Spartacus!

  11. Re:Oh, you don't need cheats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that gave a whole new meaning to the name Spandex Panda