Play GTA Vice City in the Browser

d3Xt3r | a day ago

Relevant: https://dos.zone/

DaOne256 | a day ago

What 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 | 23 hours ago

At 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 | 23 hours ago

but... then people can't constantly pretend they're smarter by telling others I.e. "the kids" what the original meanings are :(

kalaksi | 23 hours ago

In 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 | 23 hours ago

It'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

embedding-shape | 22 hours ago

Apropos:

> Fun - [...] earlier "a cheat, trick" (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) "to cheat, hoax," - https://www.etymonline.com/word/funny

tosti | 22 hours ago

Interesting. I've had lots of fun with noclip cheats.

Y_Y | 21 hours ago

Ya, just like pointing and shouting at infectious diseases

boomlinde | 23 hours ago

People don't generally refer to these old Windows games as "DOS games", though.

pogue | a day ago

It's Vice City, not GTA3.

anotheryou | a day ago

here is 3 https://quenq.com/apps/gta-3-online/

[OP] rzk | 23 hours ago

Thanks, edited.

saddist0 | 23 hours ago

It feels lovely to use panzer and leavemealone in loop. :")

JuniperMesos | 23 hours ago

Is it just me, or is every radio station broken except Wave 103?

esskay | 23 hours ago

Yup seems that way. The irony if they decided to remove them for copyright reasons...

CLuse101 | 23 hours ago

Absolutely 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!!

bastrich | 23 hours ago

I 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 | 23 hours ago

My ublock origin blocked ~20 elements on page load so I'm pretty sure that's intentional.

weird-eye-issue | 23 hours ago

There 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 | 22 hours ago

Yeah, it side tracked from what is otherwise a surprisingly functional game.

xpct | 23 hours ago

Could 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 | 23 hours ago

It'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 | 23 hours ago

Unless 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 | 22 hours ago

Crystal clear illegal. And AFAIK Rockstar can be litigious.

93po | 21 hours ago

The HL2 web port got DMCA'd pretty fast and the group behind it hasn't tried to rehost it

xpct | 20 hours ago

I do feel like posting links to these on HN is a type of soft distribution.

VCFundedGenYer | 20 hours ago

Objectively illegal. I'm unsure why this was even posted here.

xpct | 20 hours ago

Probably because emulators is one of the subjects discussed on this site. Not sure how I feel about it linking to a public web artifact.

mettamage | 23 hours ago

Here 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 | 22 hours ago

If 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 | 22 hours ago

For me the cars and people didn't load in gta3, just the shadow of the car is seen, but you can drive it.

GeneticGenesis | 22 hours ago

Thanks for the nostalgia hit!

tosti | 22 hours ago

This 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!