Oh, and all Heroes games were published on the Mac by 3DO, the same
publisher who does all of the other versions. All 4 games in the series were
ported by somebody else. A guy named Gary Osbourne ported Heroes 1, I forget
who ported Heroes II, John Morris at his one-man operation, Evolution
Interactive, ( www.evolutioninteractive.com ) ported Heroes III and Heroes
III Complete and was at one time expected to port Heroes IV, but got into
some disputes with the Heroes IV head programmer and also took on a job
writing Java Cell-phone games at some company in Hawaii, so Evolution
Interactive seems to be pretty inactive right now. (you can read about all
of that on the EI site and on my site).

Heroes IV is being ported by Chris Jacobson and Bill "Burger" Heineman at
Contraband Entertainment. The game is being ported with the latest updates
that were released for the Windows version of the game, including
Multiplayer and a Map Editor. The maps and save files will be compatible
across platforms, but Mac-Windows multiplayer will not work because the
original developers chose to use DirectPlay for the networking code.

The estimated release date on 3DO's website is Late November.

I hope that answers everything.

Rocco

rogue@...
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On 10/20/02 10:22 AM, "Rocco J Carello" <rcarello@...> wrote:

> It's available for pre-order already.
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> Rocco
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> On 10/19/02 6:25 PM, "Robert Bannister" <robban@...> wrote:
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>> allan_marcus wrote:
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>>> Anyone know if IV will be released on the mac?
>>>
>>
>> No, I don't. I suppose we should all keep on writing to the companies
>> that do it. Who ported Heroes III Complete? Was it MacSoft?
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