Quoting: kon14Launching their consoles with support for otheros and whatnot basically allowed sony to pass them as "multimedia centers" or whatever and reduce their taxation.

I should have suspected something like that.

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I wonder why Sony initially had official support for Linux on the PS2 (link [External Link]), as well as the PS3 (link [External Link]), only to remove it wholly afterwards. It's not like they had Steam to worry about back then.

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Quoting: Cimerydbut the software is the only reason to pay such a high price for the hardware, and if you replace the software, you've just bought an overpriced PC.

Not all Macs are overpriced for what you get in terms of hardware. I believe even Linus Torvalds uses Fedora on a MacBook Air.

Though for the price, the PS4 makes a pretty impressive little PC. What are NUCs priced at? And at any rate, do they come with discrete graphics?

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I really hope it doesn't end up being 'more of the same' -- considering that the chief weakness of the first game was that the latter half of the puzzles felt exactly like that.

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Quoting: TacoDeBossRuns flawless (but slow, obviously) on my AMD A8-7410 APU running fglrx 15.3 on my laptop.

That looks great; and thanks for having already reported it on github.
I wish I had AMD hardware to try it on; but I'm limited to intel integrated & nvidia.

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Not so successful here... (openSUSE TW, nvidia 364.19)

The engine was built only when I turned off the option to build the test suite as well. (cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF)

To get the data files, I installed the original cds into a folder through my windows xp virtual machine. I also copied the contents of the audio cd (the 'Play' disc) into the audio subfolder. To set environment variables for X11 (xfce) under openSUSE can be tricky -- after a couple of false starts I learnt that I had to add the option to export OPENRW_GAME_PATH into ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc

Anyhow -- here's the result. The game starts, and the intro sequence plays just fine (graphics, music, everything works except motion blur):



As soon as the intro ends, though, a screen-sized 'minimap' flashes for a second, and then the game hangs on this screen:



I can still escape into the pause menu, but can't do anything there.

I'll see whether I'll get different results on my laptop, later on.

EDIT: So, being an idiot, I forgot to select the TEST option from the main menu. This is what it results in:



I can get inside & drive the cars, but can't descend to the lower levels of the car park. To see even this much is pretty nice, though.

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On the other hand, Vice City has loads of vehicles (motorcycles, helicopters, a plane, several RC toys) that had no counterpart in GTAIII; maybe those could be difficult to implement.

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Quoting: STiATSame engine (RenderWare, that's why it's probably called RW). Even San Andreas is same engine.

I believe Vice City is essentially GTAIII with new art assets; that's why I *imagine* a Vice City extension of this project should be easy to do. San Andreas has too many tweaks; as a result of which I *guess* it would be harder to pull off.

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Quoting: rcritI build from source and it seems promising.

What does the file structure of the GTAIII folder have to look like?

I have the original boxed cd editions from back in the day -- could I just copy the CD contents into a folder and try it like that?

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Would Vice City also work with this?

There's nothing on the included documentation.

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