The game Multi Theft Auto is an open source add-on for Rockstars Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which makes it possible to play against each other online. The server for bringing the different players together runs on both Windows and Linux. For an overview of screenshots and various videos, we refer you to the media gallery from MTA. The developers have released Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.0.2 with the following abbreviated announcement:
Point release v1.0.2 and upcoming projects
The next point release for our best mod to date is out: Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.0.2.
One of our developers, ccw, did a tremendous job with resolving the most frequent problems and bugs from earlier releases. Major changes are fixes for a number of occasional crashes and assertions plus some improvements for our race gamemode, as part of the multitheftauto-resources project.
This release is of course fully compatible with the servers running on older versions (1.0 / 1.0.1), so there should be no problems with compatibility once you upgrade. Precompiled servers for Linux should be available shortly on http://linux.mtasa.com and/or our GitHub download page.
As always, the full list of changes can be found in the changelog on our repository.
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It’s worth noting that several interesting Multi Theft Auto related projects have been started by some of our fellow developers, since the decision was made to open-source our project (and allow more insight for everyone) a while ago.
One such project is the MTA Script Editor (MTASE), a development environment/editor for Multi Theft Auto resources that is being created by a group of dedicated developers.
The software incorporates some nice features such as a Lua and XML syntax checker and highlighter, resource management, extensive support for testing, and is a future candidate for an official IDE that may be distributed with Multi Theft Auto.
Additional information on MTASE, as well as it’s latest alpha version 0.2.6 can be found on the MTASE Wiki page and Forum topic.
| Version number | 1.0.2 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista |
| Website | Multi Theft Auto |
| Download | http://www.bussign.nl/mirror/mtasa/MTASA-1.0.2.exe |
| File size | 8.17MB |
| License type | Freeware |