GTA Launcher

A program to launch GTA1 easier inside DOSBox. It's similar to the launcher in the Max Pack but you can control it with the arrow keys instead of pressing numbers.

Reason to use

GTA1 with every expansion pack comes with 11 exe files. There's a simple launcher script in the Max Pack just to make it clear which exe does what.

I like to play GTA1 on my phone using RetroArch DOSBox core. I had to remap every button on my gamepad to a key that the game uses so it would be really inconvenient to somehow remap numbers too that the Max Pack batch script uses. Since I can't really use the arrow keys in batch, I went the extra mile and made a C program with custom ANSI art and sound support.

Controls

• Main menu
  Here you can open the Start menu or the Settings menu
• Start menu
  Select a flag to launch a game: GTA1 (gtaX.exe), GTA1 London1969 (gtaX_uk.exe), GTA1 London1961 (gtaX_61.exe)
  (X stands for 8 or 24 or fx, meaning low color mode, high color mode or 3Dfx mode)
  You can select color mode with the up/down keys. Default is high color.
• Settings menu
  Select a flag to launch the settings of a game: GTA1 settings (k.exe), GTA1 London1969 settings (k_uk.exe), GTA1 London1961 settings (k_61.exe)
  
  Left/Right to switch between icons
  Up/Down to select color mode at the Start menu (default is high color)
  Enter/Esc to confirm or go back

FAQ

• Where do I put the exe and the gtamenu folder?
  Inside your GTA1 folder, next to gtadata and gtados folders.
• No ingame music?
  The program will automatically try to mount the proper discs for music. Create a gtamusic folder and put your bin/cue files in there. Name them music.cue for the base game and music_uk.cue for the expansion packs. I'm NOT providing you these files.
• Why can't I select low color mode for London1961?
  That expansion pack never had low color mode officially, therefore I made it unselectable.
• Where did you get the ANSI art?
  Made them using TheDraw. The logo is from the GameBoy version of the game.
• Can I disable sound?
  I included source code for no sound version separately along with a bunch of other minor launchers I worked on.

Programs used

Turbo C++ 3
TheDraw