A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck

I vaguely remember Grand Theft Auto being free to download from the Rockstar Games website about ten years ago.

Here is to hoping that Rockstar Games brings these two classics back.

I always feel old when I read Reddit comments by people who say they feel old because they remember when GTA III came out. I played a lot of GTA I and II in the late 90s/early 00s. Admittedly GTA I felt a bit dated at the time but GTA II was great. The top-down view didn't age well I guess but made it feel quite distinctive. I feel like in a lot of people's minds the series only really began at III.

Also available at; https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto/ where WASM is used to emulate Windows 95 in your browser.

I'm sure it was officially re-released for modern (of the day) PCs before this? I think I've still got it on discs somewhere, a set of the first trilogy, Vice City, and maybe San Andreas.

You might want to add [2022] in the title

Check out Exodos for this type of thing. It's built on launchbox (an emulator front end) and just gives a huge listing of every game you might ever want to play. Those games aren't all installed (assuming you didn't do the full 500GB+ install) but you click the game and it quickly downloads, installs into dosbox and jumps into the game (takes seconds since these are old games).

The best version - thank you.

Love GTA1, but IIRC my version at least is a 3dfx glide game which makes it quite hard to play on modern kit.

Will give this a try.

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