Thanks in advance! :)

As far as I know the music is higher quality, but that is not the point; I was wondering if maybe it made things easier for you writing the script for the game. Wine is still being actively developed, and while it does probably take more work to try out different versions of Wine you do have more choices so I think you could make the game run better and have less work to do maintaining the script for when linux distros update. I'm just guessing though, I don't know much about emulation software.

Even if it does not look like it, DOSBox is still actively developed ;)
But I might add support for the Windows installer in the next planned update for the script.

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Let’s go back to your issue: I managed to reproduce it by installing the 64-bit version of DOSBox provided by Debian Stretch, and switching to the 32-bit version seems to fix it.
You can do this by running the following command as root: Please try this and tell me if it fixes the issue for you.

Wow, I didn't know it's still being developed; I assumed it wasn't because it's version number is 0.74 since I've first heard of it.

That was really fast; not only fast but also right on the mark, it fixed my problem, Heroes 2 now starts and works nicely too. Thanks a lot! :)

Update

Heroes of Might and Magic
Script has been ported to ./play.it 2, most notable improvement is the support of Arch Linux and derivatives.

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I don’t reproduce your issue on my test machine (a Debian Sid amd64). I’m going to set up an Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit for further testing, and ask our Arch Linux developer to run some tests too.

From what we’ve seen, the issue is with Arch Linux DOSBox build (I didn’t try on Ubuntu yet).
I don’t think there is anything we can do on ./play.it side to work around this kind of issue, short of bundling a DOSBox build into the game package.

While a fixed DOSBox build for Ubuntu could be done, I won’t maintain one for a rolling release like Arch Linux. Better to send a bug report to the package maintainer.

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This issue usually happen when using Ubuntu 16.04 or a derivative, and is due to an innoextract version too old for the target installer.
You can download an updated innoextract build from ./play.it website:
https://www.dotslashplay.it/ressources/innoextract/ubuntu/xenial/

I'm curious: why did you open three different threads for the same topic? Granted, they were opened a year or so apart, but why not just keep updating the same, original thread?

I wouldn’t have done this if GOG forum gave us an option to edit threads title ;)

I wondered if that might be the case. :)

Contact a blue if you want to change a thread's title. They can do it for you. To make their life easier (at least, I assume it would make their life easier), I suggest linking the thread in question and giving a copy/paste of the new title. That worked for me, when I wanted/needed it done some time back.

Edit: spelling

Thanks for the tip, I’ll think about it next time.

Update

Saved games for Heroes of Might and Magic V are now stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME (defaults to ~/.local/share/games/heroes-of-might-and-magic-5/profiles) instead of using ~/My Games directory. This will only take effect on new installations, or after manual removal of the WINE prefix.

Settings are now shared between base game and Hammer of Fate expansion as long as you use the same profile name in both games.

Hi,

I have problems with installing HOMM3 on my XUbuntu 18.04 system. Everything works fine until the dpkg command, where I get the following result :

Selecting previously unselected package heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-en:i386.
(Reading database ... 183608 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ./homm3.deb ...
Unpacking heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-en:i386 (3.0-gog2.0.0.16+20180224.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-en:i386:
heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-en:i386 depends on heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-data.

dpkg: error processing package heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-en:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-en:i386

Thanks in advance for checking out my problem. :D

Strange, from your report it seems one of the packages is named "homm3.deb", this shouldn’t happen.

Could you please give it another try, and copy-paste here the full output from the script, from the command you run to the dpkg or apt command printed at the end?