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Play GTA Vice City in the Browser
- d3Xt3r 10d agoRelevant: https://dos.zone/ https://dos.zone/
- DaOne256 10d 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 10d 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 10d agobut... then people can't constantly pretend they're smarter by telling others I.e. "the kids" what the original meanings are :(
- kalaksi 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d agoInteresting. I've had lots of fun with noclip cheats.
- Y_Y 10d agoYa, just like pointing and shouting at infectious diseases
- boomlinde 10d agoPeople don't generally refer to these old Windows games as "DOS games", though.
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- pogue 10d agoIt's Vice City, not GTA3.
- anotheryou 10d agohere is 3 https://quenq.com/apps/gta-3-online/ https://quenq.com/apps/gta-3-online/
- rzk 10d agoThanks, edited.
- saddist0 10d agoIt feels lovely to use panzer and leavemealone in loop. :")
- JuniperMesos 10d agoIs it just me, or is every radio station broken except Wave 103?
- esskay 10d agoYup seems that way. The irony if they decided to remove them for copyright reasons...
- CLuse101 10d 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!!
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- bastrich 10d 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 10d agoMy ublock origin blocked ~20 elements on page load so I'm pretty sure that's intentional.
- weird-eye-issue 10d 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 10d agoYeah, it side tracked from what is otherwise a surprisingly functional game.
- xpct 10d 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?
- VCFundedGenYer 10d agoObjectively illegal. I'm unsure why this was even posted here.
- xpct 10d 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.
- avaer 10d 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 10d 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 10d agoCrystal clear illegal. And AFAIK Rockstar can be litigious.
- 93po 10d agoThe HL2 web port got DMCA'd pretty fast and the group behind it hasn't tried to rehost it
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- mettamage 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d agoThanks for the nostalgia hit!
- tosti 10d 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!