Free Heroes of Might and Magic II 0.8 release (also for MacOS and Linux)

Author: Liso1 August 14, 2020 0 Comments

fheroes2 – free implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II game engine with a plenty of delightful changes! Here is a short list of them:

• Major rework of battle animations including units, spells and heroes
• Implementation of color cycling to animate water/lava surfaces, adventure map objects and units
• Refining UI including scaling, responsiveness, alignment and content (both text and sprites)
• Implementation of missing spell effects such as Lightning, Armageddon, Death Wave as well as fixing many others
• Update render engine and added SDL 2 optimizations; better fullscreen and high resolution support
• Numerous game logic fixes including combat, spells, map, AI and pathfinding
• Improvement of music support and sound mapping, updated MIDI converter
• Add SMK video support
• Over 200 bugs fixed since 0.7 release

Download

You can download a compiled version of the game for your operating system via Github releases of this project.

Requirements

You are required to have at least a demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II or GOG version of Heroes 2 game to be able to play it. Please use one of our scripts to download the demo version of the original game. A script comes with the compiled game.

MacOS and Linux
Unix OSes need an explicit installation of SDL. Please go to script/macos or script/linux directory depending on your OS package and run install_sdl_1.sh or install_sdl_2.sh file. For MacOS we highly recommend to use SDL 2 as latest versions of MacOS does not support SDL 1 fully.

Compilation

Please follow below instructions to be able to compile the project:

Windows

• Optional step: Install 7-zip archiver at its default location as C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe or otherwise, you will need to manually extract each downloaded package (follow instructions shown by batch scripts mentioned below).
• open script/windows directory and run install_packages.bat file. It installs necessary packages for Visual Studio build.
• open script/demo directory and run demo_windows.bat file. It downloads a demo version of the game which is needed for minimum development.
• open fheroes.vcxproj by Visual Studio and compile the project.

MacOS and Linux

• open script/macos or script/linux directory depending on your OS and run install_sdl_1.sh or install_sdl_2.sh file. For MacOS we recommend to run SDL 2 as latest versions of MacOS does not support SDL 1 fully.
• open script/demo directory and run demo_macos.sh or demo_linux.sh file depending on your OS. It downloads a demo version of the game which is needed for minimum development.
• run make command in root directory of the project. For SDL 2 compilation please run export WITH_SDL2="ON" command before compiling the project.