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[iohann]

thanks for the tip! i think i'm going to play all night long, just like 12 years ago )

[Destroia]

Hey guys i was wondering if someone could help me. I just finished reading all 27 pages of posts and have attempting to get HoMM1(dos) to run through dosbox.

i am using dosbox .72 and running it on my Notebook PC with Vista OS. I have run about 20 other games through dosbox and this is the only one give me a problem. I have tried all the variations listed here and it still does not seem to work.

I use the commands:

z:>e: -t cdrom e:\ c:\users\blah\blah blah
*Tells me it is mounted as a cdrom*
z:>e:
E:>heroes.exe
*then it tells me i have performed an illegal operation.*

Any help would be much appreciated.

[dosraider]

mount d e:\ -t cdrom
mount c c:\users\blah\blah blah
c:
cd blah blah
blahblahblah

And some more blahblahblah.

And add a blah where needed.


You hardly can expect us to write it all out for you if you're even too lazy to post something else than blahblah yourself.

[Destroia]

Well, the rest of the code wasnt important because i was accessing the file n all at its proper place.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Well, the rest of the code wasnt important because i was accessing the file n all at its proper place.

The commands should be posted in the exact syntax you entered in DOSBox. Small errors in a part that "wasn't important" are cause of a large number of problems people come to us with.

E:>heroes.exe
*then it tells me i have performed an illegal operation.*

Exact error message, please. It's not like taking a screenshot in DOSBox is difficult.

[dosraider]

Info on game sheet:

IMPORTANT!!! In order for the game to run you must mount your cdrom in DOSbox by using the following command: MOUNT * -t cdrom *:
* = your cdrom drive. (Most used d: and e

Examples:
mount d e:\ -t cdrom if your CD drive under windows is E:\
mount d f:\ -t cdrom if your CD drive under windows is F:\
mount d g:\ -t cdrom if your CD drive under windows is G:\
mount d h:\ -t cdrom if your CD drive under windows is H:\

[gregor]

also i hope you are not running the windows version in DOSBox.
BTW if you download the windows version and burn it on CD everything should work fine (install and play) in WinXP & lower (at least).

[Scatty]

HOMM4 had many new great features to offer. However instant enemy retaliation wasn't that great - you were much more certain to suffer own unit losses than in the previous games. And the Resurrection spell for heroes was removed too, Angel units were the only ones left with ability to resurrect friendly units. Which was altogether a huge mistake in my opinion.

[Tracker]

Ever used the spell Divine Intervention? Perhaps only available for Life, it resurrects all the heroes and gives a large amount of HP to them. But it's still there. The problem is, that the fanatics couldn't bear the changes. I'm mostly a fan of HOMM4 because it was the first of the series I played with, but I was at least not blinded by prejudicement.

[Scatty]

Oh don't worry, I like Heroes of Might & Magic IV not any less than HOMM3 or HOMM2, there are simply many new things you can do in it which you couldn't in previous games.
Considering that with a high level Demonologist hero who masters Demonology and Nature Magic (summon Poison Spitters, Ice Demons or Devils) or with an Arch Mage hero (3 or more magic schools, +20% effect on all spells I think) with Life, Order and Chaos magic (you can add Nature to that, but not necessary) you can pretty much solo almost any battle, if you don't also forget to master his Combat skills and maybe Tactics, this alone is a pretty different experience from previous games in the series, and a huge freedom I very much enjoyed to exhaust to it's limits.