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    Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Horn of the Abyss on Linux and macOS #wine

    Posted at — Jan 21, 2019

    Back to the past! Playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 with latest Horn of the Abyss on Linux or OS X!

    Recently I’ve seen that there are championships in my favorite game from the childhood Heroes of Might and Magic 3, also I and my girlfriend are big fans of that game so why don’t play it and feel like a child again, right?

    The problem was that I’m not having a Windows machine… I have only the MacBook which runs on OS X and Thinkpad powered by Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and that was a time when I started reading and using a wine.

    Also… I found that there is a cool unofficial extension Horn of the Abyss built by fans. So why not try it as well?

    Download Heroes 3 exe file

    1. Download Heroes 3 .exe file. I recommend to buy a Game from GOG: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete (it worked for me). I heard that the Steam version is not working.
    2. If you are using the GOG version, go to your account and click on the bought game.
    3. Download game (2 parts) from offline backup game installers

    Install wine (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

    Go to wine tutorial and install wine.

    I used WineHQ packages commands and it worked without any issue.

    Install wine (macOS Mojave 10.14.2)

    Install wine on machine

    brew install wine

    Run setup

    1. Go to terminal and run wine and exe file
    wine setup_heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_4.0.exe
    1. Proceed the wizard

    homm3 installator

    HoMM3 HD+ extension

    This extension is required to run Horn of the Abyss.

    1. Go to HoMM3 HD+ and download exe file
    2. Install it using wine
    wine HoMM3\ HD\ Latest.exe
    1. Make sure that extension will be installed in the same directory as the base game

    HoMM3 HD+

    Horn of the Abyss (HotA)

    1. Go to HotA page and download exe file (do not be afraid of Polish language, the file is working and it supports English language as well)
    2. Install it using wine
    wine HotA_1.5.4_setup.exe
    1. Make sure that extension will be installed in the same directory as the base game

    HotA on wine

    Play a game

    1. Go to the wine directory on your unix machine. In most cases it will be ~/.wine
    2. Enter Heroes 3 directory and run HoMM3 HD+ mode exe file
    cd ~/.wine/drive_c/GOG\ Games/HoMM\ 3\ Complete/
wine HD3_Launcher.exe
    1. Enjoy the game

    heroes 3 on mode