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  • Is it just me, or is every radio station broken except Wave 103?
    by JuniperMesos
  • Yup seems that way. The irony if they decided to remove them for copyright reasons...
    by esskay
  • 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!!
    by CLuse101
  • Thanks for the nostalgia hit!
    by GeneticGenesis
  • 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?
    by xpct
  • The HL2 web port got DMCA'd pretty fast and the group behind it hasn't tried to rehost it
    by 93po
  • Crystal clear illegal. And AFAIK Rockstar can be litigious.
    by lindkvis
  • Objectively illegal. I'm unsure why this was even posted here.
    by VCFundedGenYer
  • 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).
    by avaer
  • 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.
    by tgsovlerkhgsel
  • It feels lovely to use panzer and leavemealone in loop. :")
    by saddist0
  • It's Vice City, not GTA3.
    by pogue
  • Thanks, edited.
    by rzk
  • here is 3 https://quenq.com/apps/gta-3-online/
    by anotheryou
  • For me the cars and people didn't load in gta3, just the shadow of the car is seen, but you can drive it.
    by bonoboTP
  • 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!
    by mettamage
  • 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.
    by embedding-shape
  • 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!

    by tosti
  • Relevant: https://dos.zone/
    by d3Xt3r
  • 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...

    by DaOne256
  • 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.
    by bastrich
  • Yeah, it side tracked from what is otherwise a surprisingly functional game.
    by csomar
  • 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
    by weird-eye-issue
  • My ublock origin blocked ~20 elements on page load so I'm pretty sure that's intentional.
    by cbg0