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Install the Heroes of Might and Magic games on Linux

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Hello fellow Debian users, Ubuntu lovers and Mint freaks!

Here you’ll find scripts allowing you to turn your Windows installer of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 into a .deb package, allowing to install it through DPKG and remove it through any APT front-end (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.).

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following page:
[url=https://debian-facile.org/utilisateurs:vv222:games:heroes-of-might-and-magic-2]https://debian-facile.org/utilisateurs:vv222:games:heroes-of-might-and-magic-2[/url]

I hope you’ll enjoy these scripts as much as I enjoy writing and tweaking them ;)

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Here you go for more supported games!

Just want to say that this worked great on my xubuntu 14.04.

Thanks!

Thank you for the confirmation!
These reports are really useful, as I don’t test the scripts on Ubuntu myself ;)

Your welcome.

I also made a few tweaks for anyone interested. I wanted to play the game in a larger window so I created a new file in ~/.dosbox called dosbox-0.74-homm2.conf (which was just a copy of the dosbox-0.74.conf that was in that directory) already and changed:

windowresolution=1280x960
output=openglnb

My understanding is that output has to be anything but surface for this to work.

Then I edited /usr/local/games/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2 (as root with sudo) and changed:

dosbox -c "mount c .

to

dosbox -conf /home/thomas/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74-homm2.conf -c "mount c .

in order to load my game specific config on startup.

Nice tweak, thanks for sharing it here!

Just a small bit of advice: instead of editing /usr/local/games/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2 you can copy it under ~/bin/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2 and edit the copy. This way you won’t need root rights to do it.
Files under ~/bin/ will take priority over files with the same name under /usr/local/games/

By the way, with some future update to the project games installed via the scripts I share here will be able to find and use a game-specific dosbox.conf file.
I’ll post an update here when it’s done, but don’t hold your breath, it won’t be done before a couple months at best ;)

Tried this on Ubuntu 16.04 using the dosbox in the repository, it crashed consistently on first turn however. Fixed this by building dosbox from the SVN repository instead. Commands below. I don't have enough rep to post links, so replace #### with https://.

# Install build dependencies
sudo apt install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev automake autoconf svn

# Checkout SVN trunk
svn checkout ####svn.code.sf.net/p/dosbox/code-0/dosbox/trunk dosbox-code-0
cd dosbox-code-0

# Build dosbox and install
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j4
sudo make install