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

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. If you are using the GOG version, go to your account and click on the bought game. 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

Go to terminal and run wine and exe file

wine setup_heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_4.0.exe

Proceed the wizard

HoMM3 HD+ extension

This extension is required to run Horn of the Abyss.

Go to HoMM3 HD+ and download exe file Install it using wine

wine HoMM3 \ HD \ Latest.exe

Make sure that extension will be installed in the same directory as the base game

Horn of the Abyss (HotA)

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) Install it using wine

wine HotA_1.5.4_setup.exe

Make sure that extension will be installed in the same directory as the base game

Play a game

Go to the wine directory on your unix machine. In most cases it will be ~/.wine Enter Heroes 3 directory and run HoMM3 HD+ mode exe file

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/GOG \ Games/HoMM \ 3 \ Complete/ wine HD3_Launcher.exe