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Native Metal build of GTA III for Apple Silicon Macs — download only

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 21 upvotes (top 38%) · 2 views

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Porting an entire 3D game engine (GTA III) natively to Apple Silicon using Apple's Metal graphics API requires deep low-level systems and graphics reverse engineering.

What it would actually take: Building this requires decompiled or re-engineered C++ game engine source code (e.g., re3) and rewriting the DirectX/RenderWare rendering pipeline directly into Apple Metal shaders and pipelines. It requires deep knowledge of Objective-C++/Swift, Metal graphics programming, Apple Silicon ARM64 assembly, and memory management. Standard AI coding assistants struggle with cross-compilation toolchains and proprietary low-level graphics API translations.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 809 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #332 of 810 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.

  • macVC · github · 2026-09-10 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.82
  • macIV · github · 2026-11-09 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • liberty-pro-max · github · 2026-11-02 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • muguet · github · 2026-10-10 · 591 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Theft4 · github · 2026-09-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • MetalHorizon-FH6-Mac-Launcher · github · 2026-10-27 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • LibertyRecomp · github · 2026-10-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • GT3-revisited · github · 2026-10-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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