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Posted May 19, 2013
Hey guys,

I recently switched over to mac having played this game for years on pc. I see all over the place that this gog version of HOMM3 is compatible with macs but I can't get it to work for the life of me. Whenever I try to open it it simply says that .exe files aren't supported. The support answers haven't been particularly helpful thus far. Can anyone help me out? I really miss this game.

Thanks!
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Posted May 20, 2013
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hallwt: Hey guys,

I recently switched over to mac having played this game for years on pc. I see all over the place that this gog version of HOMM3 is compatible with macs but I can't get it to work for the life of me. Whenever I try to open it it simply says that .exe files aren't supported. The support answers haven't been particularly helpful thus far. Can anyone help me out? I really miss this game.

Thanks!
Rather than learning specific steps for setting up this one game, if you learn how to use Wineskin or PlayOnMac in general, then you should be able to set up a very large number of GOG games to work on your Mac. That's what I've done.

Wineskin uses more manual steps, but along the way you'll learn a lot more about how Wine works. PlayOnMac has a wizard, so it's easier, but if something goes wrong you won't know as much about how Wine operates and may feel sort of stuck.

Links:
Wineskin: http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php
PlayOnMac: http://www.playonmac.com/en/
Posted August 19, 2013
hey the only reason that you can play on mac is because it is a windows file, you may just have to wait until gog.com comes out with a mac osx verson
Posted August 23, 2013
I have HoMM3 Complete working (almost) perfect on my Mac. I just played around with Wineskin, and I got it to work. Even installed the HD-mod with success. Only issue is that it sometimes minimizes the window. Don't know why, but it doesn't really matter a lot.

BUT, PaulTheTall has actually made a wrapper for it now, so you can just go ahead and use that. Can't link apparently, but google it.
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