Heroes of Might and Magic

The release version.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0
License:	Retail
URL:
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested:	8.13

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Bartosz Kosiorek

Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Installation

Intro

Running the game in fullscreen and window (toggle by F4)

Changing the game resolution inside game menu (640x480 .. 1280x1024)

Map editor (create and play your custom)

What does not

Sound & Speech/SFX (needs to be disabled: bug #3930)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	CachyOS	Aug 25 2023	8.13	Yes	No	No	Garbage	Tauno
Show	Rosa Desktop Fresh R6 (2014.1)	Jan 26 2017	2.0	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Giovanni Mariani
Show	Rosa Desktop Fresh R6 (2014.1)	Dec 06 2015	1.8-rc3	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Giovanni Mariani
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 07 2016	1.6.2	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jul 12 2011	1.2.2	No, but has workaround	Yes	No	Silver	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
3930	HOMM/Deadlock shows black screen (game DLL calls SuspendThread inside WOM_OPEN winmm callback)	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

2013-05-03 Admin note: the instructions below are very old and may not apply to current Wine. They are being kept here for the benefit of anyone who may wish to test and/or update them.

Do not use Wine 0.9.30 or 0.9.31, as these do not display the game cursor properly. Newer and earlier versions should be fine.

To get the game working, you must do the following (reported by Damjan Jovanovic)

Apply this patch to Wine 0.9.29 or earlier, or disable sound completely in Wine
Add an override so that 'HEROES.EXE' runs in Windows 98 mode (can be done in winecfg)

How to apply the patch

Change to the directory where you saved the Wine archive and patch
Extract Wine with tar -xvjf wine-0.9.29.tar.bz2
Enter the Wine directory with cd wine-0.9.29
Apply the patch, patch -p1 < ../wineoss-0.9.29.patch
Substitute with the path where you want to install Wine. ./configure --prefix=$HOME/wineh1
Compile with make depend && make
Install with make install
Now change to the directory where you installed Heroes and type ~/wineh1 heroes

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