note: Requires and Intel Mac :-(

New York – March 1st, 2007 -- Freeverse announced today Heroes of Might and
Magic® V
for the Macintosh, under exclusive worldwide license from Ubisoft is shipping.
Developed
for the PC by Nival Interactive, Heroes of Might and Magic V brings the popular
and long
running strategy franchise into a new era with cutting-edge technology and a
breathtaking, fully 3D animated world.

The game features a deep, scalable turn-based battle system for challenging
tactical
combat as well as the option of a brand new Active Battle System for faster
play. Players
can choose from more than 200 skills, 170 creature abilities and 40 spells to
build up
heroes and armies. This is a new, darker, heroic fantasy universe that's more
mature with
six unique factions and more than 80 different creatures.

The engaging storyline features special objectives, side quests and exciting
plot twists for
the finest tactics, management and role-playing adventure ever brewed.

"We're thrilled to be partnering with Ubisoft to bring the incredible Heroes of
Might and
Magic V to Mac gamers around the world," said Ian Lynch Smith, President of
Freeverse.

www.freeverse.com/heroes5

About Freeverse:
Freeverse strives to develop and publish seamless software, with a particular
concentration
on the Mac OS. Our titles have received numerous awards including four Apple
Design
Awards, two MacWorld "Best of Show" awards and a Macworld Magazine "Game Hall of
Fame." Our original characters have appeared in TimeDigital, Wired, and
Animation World
magazines, as well as television commercials for Blockbuster Video.
Headquartered in New
York City, Freeverse draws upon the talents of artists, programmers and sound
designers
from around the globe.

About Ubisoft:
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive
entertainment
products worldwide and has grown considerably through its strong and diversified
lineup
of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 21 countries and sales in
more than
50 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality,
cutting-edge
video game titles to consumers. Ubisoft generated revenue of 538 million Euros
for the
2004–2005 fiscal year, an increase of 8 percent over the previous fiscal year at
constant
exchange rates. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

© 2005 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Heroes, Might and Magic,
Heroes of
Might and Magic, Ubisoft, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft
Entertainment in
the U.S. and/or other countries.

Last January Freeverse announced it was working on a Mac port. I've
read recently that they are making progress. Also, on page 64 of the
December 2006 MacAddict there is a full page add for HOMM V for Mac!

Of course I went to the freeverse web site and there is no news there.
Anyone here of anything?

-Allan

http://news.freeverse.com/

New York -- January 12, 2006 -- Freeverse announced today that it will be
publishing
Heroes of Might and Magic® V for the Macintosh, under exclusive worldwide
license from
Ubisoft. Currently in development for the PC by Nival Interactive, Heroes of
Might and
Magic V brings the popular and long running strategy franchise into a new era
with
cutting-edge technology and a breathtaking, fully 3D animated world. Heroes of
Might and
Magic V for the Macintosh will be available after the release of the PC game.

The game features a deep, scalable turn-based battle system for challenging
tactical
combat as well as the option of a brand new Active Battle System for faster
play. Players
can choose from more than 200 skills, 170 creature abilities and 40 spells to
build up
heroes and armies. This is a new, darker, heroic fantasy universe that's more
mature with
six unique factions and more than 80 different creatures.

The engaging storyline features special objectives, side quests and exciting
plot twists for
the finest tactics, management and role-playing adventure ever brewed.

"The Heroes series has a long and illustrious history on the Mac, and we're
thrilled to be
partnering with Ubisoft to bring this exciting new game to Mac gamers around the
world,"
said Ian Lynch Smith, President of Freeverse.

About Freeverse:
Freeverse strives to develop and publish seamless software, with a particular
concentration
on the Mac OS. Our titles have received numerous awards including four Apple
Design
Awards, two MacWorld "Best of Show" awards and a Macworld Magazine "Game Hall of
Fame." Our original characters have appeared in TimeDigital, Wired, and
Animation World
magazines, as well as television commercials for Blockbuster Video.
Headquartered in New
York City, Freeverse draws upon the talents of artists, programmers and sound
designers
from around the globe.

About Ubisoft:
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive
entertainment
products worldwide and has grown considerably through its strong and diversified
lineup
of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 21 countries and sales in
more than
50 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality,
cutting-edge
video game titles to consumers. Ubisoft generated revenue of 538 million Euros
for the
2004–2005 fiscal year, an increase of 8 percent over the previous fiscal year at
constant
exchange rates. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

© 2005 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Heroes, Might and Magic,
Heroes of
Might and Magic, Ubisoft, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft
Entertainment in
the U.S. and/or other countries.

gurubob2001 wrote:

> Since switching to a G5 imac and running tiger, homm4 crashes
> immediately.  Anyone else
> try running it on Tiger.  Any suggestions on a solution would be nice.
>
I haven't played for ages and definitely not since I got a G5, so I
can't answer this. However, I know I had problems with Windows Media
Player (solved by changing the default) and I have heard of others who
had sound problems with games (apparently solved by opening Audio Midi
Setup). Try finding the preferences and deleting the relevant plist(s).
There is a quite useful discussion board you can find via the Apple site
that might help.

--
Rob Bannister

Since switching to a G5 imac and running tiger, homm4 crashes immediately. 
Anyone else
try running it on Tiger.  Any suggestions on a solution would be nice.

Here is a link for some medium sized maps for HOMM IV.  Some of them are
pretty cool, actually, the whole site is great to gleen from;

http://www.toheroes.com/h4maps/medium.html

This is the best site I've found so far...Celestial Heavens seems to
link to another site to download from which is inaccessible for me.




davidgmisner wrote:

> > Have you tried the Yellow Pages of your phone directory?
>
> Well I just got Heroes of Might and Magic IV in the mail.  Now where
> do I get Maps??  :)
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

> Have you tried the Yellow Pages of your phone directory?


Well I just got Heroes of Might and Magic IV in the mail.  Now where
do I get Maps??  :)

-- Rob Bannister

Check out some of the link in this yahoo group!


On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:05 PM, davidgmisner wrote:

>
>  > Have you tried the Yellow Pages of your phone directory?
>
>
>  Well I just got Heroes of Might and Magic IV in the mail.  Now where
>  do I get Maps??  :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Have you tried the Yellow Pages of your phone directory?


Well I just got Heroes of Might and Magic IV in the mail.  Now where
do I get Maps??  :)

--- In mac-homm@yahoogroups.com, Robert Bannister <robban@i...> wrote:
> Prior to buying a new Mac, I've been asking my Apple store a lot of
> questions. They say the newer Macs do have Classic. So, I asked, can I
> use my old disks to install OS 9.2.2? No, they said. Can I have it
on my
> external drive? You can put what you like on your external drive, but
> the G5 will not boot from it.
>
> So, whatever G5s have, it's definitely not the same as the older OS 9.
> Maybe it's a cut-down version, but the shop told me that some apps and
> games will definitely not run, and nor will my scanner.
>
> My current addiction is The Sims - the old version with the millions of
> downloads available - and I have one disk that is OS 9. Aspyr, who
> produce the game, say that although I might be able to install by
> dragging from my external drive, there is still a chance it won't
run on
> a G5 and off to swop the disk for $US5, which I reckon is pretty good.
> As you know, 3d0 no longer exists and even when it did, was totally
> unfriendly to Mac - I remember writing to them (I think about the
> proposed HOMM5) and was told they considered Mac totally unimportant
and
> that, living in Australia, I should consider myself lucky that I had a
> copy of the game at

I guess we know now they no longer exist

So far I have not found a local Apple store  :(

Nothing will run under classic without O9S being installed. "Classic"
is just OS running running in a sort of virtual machine.


On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:

> David Misner wrote:
>
>
>   it seems there
>  are a number of programs that will not run under Classic without OS 9
>  being installed, and you can't have OS 9 on new Macs. Actually, they
>  probably would run, but of course you can't install the program in the
>  first place. Re. another game, Aspyr has told me it might be possible
> to
>  drag games I already have installed from my external hard drive.

-- Rob Bannister

Nothing will run under classic without O9S being installed. "Classic"
is just OS running running in a sort of virtual machine.


On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:

> David Misner wrote:
>
>
>   it seems there
>  are a number of programs that will not run under Classic without OS 9
>  being installed, and you can't have OS 9 on new Macs. Actually, they
>  probably would run, but of course you can't install the program in the
>  first place. Re. another game, Aspyr has told me it might be possible
> to
>  drag games I already have installed from my external hard drive.

http://www.shoppingmallcreator.com/template/item_full.asp?
cp=1&itemID=GA1024

using froogle.com and searching for: "heroes of might and magic" mac
including the quotes I found lots of places that have it.

I'd sell you mine, but I got rid of it a long time ago.

In fact, does anyone else want to take ownership of this group? It's
not much work.

-Allan



On Apr 11, 2005, at 12:07 AM, David Misner wrote:

> > > Where do I get Heroes 2 3 or 4.  I can't find them
>  > for the Mac
>  > >
>  > >
>  > Have you tried asking your local Apple store? Mine
>  > still has one copy of
>  > Heroes 4. Have you tried Amazon or EBay?
>
>
>  How do I find if I have a local Apple Store?  Is there
>  a directory
>  of Apple Stores somewhere???
>
>  I tried eBay but I could not find anything.  I did
>  another search right after I osted that and I found 2
>  copies of Heroes of Might and Magic IV for auction and
>  then I found some others for auction when I changed my
>  search from Heroes Might Magic Macintosh to Heroes
>  Might Magic Mac.  That made a big difference.
>
>  I just upgraded to OS X Panther and now I can't play
>  Heroes of Might and Magic.  I wonder if Heroes of
>  Might and Magic 3 is OS X friendly
>
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David Misner wrote:

> > > Where do I get Heroes 2 3 or 4.  I can't find them
> > for the Mac
> > >
> > >
> > Have you tried asking your local Apple store? Mine
> > still has one copy of
> > Heroes 4. Have you tried Amazon or EBay?
>
>
> How do I find if I have a local Apple Store?  Is there
> a directory
> of Apple Stores somewhere???
>
> I tried eBay but I could not find anything.  I did
> another search right after I osted that and I found 2
> copies of Heroes of Might and Magic IV for auction and
> then I found some others for auction when I changed my
> search from Heroes Might Magic Macintosh to Heroes
> Might Magic Mac.  That made a big difference.
>
> I just upgraded to OS X Panther and now I can't play
> Heroes of Might and Magic.  I wonder if Heroes of
> Might and Magic 3 is OS X friendly
>
Have you tried the Yellow Pages of your phone directory? I can see you
might have problems with older versions of HOMM. I have an old G4, which
means I still have OS 9 installed. HOMM3 runs fine for me under Classic,
but, now I am thinking about a G5, and am investigating, it seems there
are a number of programs that will not run under Classic without OS 9
being installed, and you can't have OS 9 on new Macs. Actually, they
probably would run, but of course you can't install the program in the
first place. Re. another game, Aspyr has told me it might be possible to
drag games I already have installed from my external hard drive.

--
Rob Bannister

On Apr 11, 2005, at 2:07 AM, David Misner wrote:

> I just upgraded to OS X Panther and now I can't play
> Heroes of Might and Magic.  I wonder if Heroes of
> Might and Magic 3 is OS X friendly


Heroes III and Heroes III Complete do not run natively in OS X, but
they run perfectly through Classic. Many people have been wishing for
an OS X native version of Heroes III, but, from the story I heard, that
is not likely to happen.

Rocco J Carello

> > Where do I get Heroes 2 3 or 4.  I can't find them
> for the Mac
> >
> >
> Have you tried asking your local Apple store? Mine
> still has one copy of
> Heroes 4. Have you tried Amazon or EBay?


How do I find if I have a local Apple Store?  Is there
a directory
of Apple Stores somewhere???

I tried eBay but I could not find anything.  I did
another search right after I osted that and I found 2
copies of Heroes of Might and Magic IV for auction and
then I found some others for auction when I changed my
search from Heroes Might Magic Macintosh to Heroes
Might Magic Mac.  That made a big difference.

I just upgraded to OS X Panther and now I can't play
Heroes of Might and Magic.  I wonder if Heroes of
Might and Magic 3 is OS X friendly



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davidgmisner wrote:

>
> Where do I get Heroes 2 3 or 4.  I can't find them for the Mac
>
>
Have you tried asking your local Apple store? Mine still has one copy of
Heroes 4. Have you tried Amazon or EBay?

--
Rob Bannister

Where do I get Heroes 2 3 or 4.  I can't find them for the Mac

>How do you create scenerios??
>

You don't create 'scenarios' as such in HOMM3, at least not on the Mac.
You can create 'random maps' though, that you can specify quite a few
parameters for.  In the 'New Game' screen, just click 'random' and then
look at all the options available.

I tend to create mine with X-large, no caverns, 7 opponents, no teams, no
water.  Occasionally I will create an 'islands' map, though I prefer the
ground-based ones.

I like to play a new map at 'easy' mode, which I always win unless the map
generator messes up and creates an impossible map (sometimes a land-locked
city with no local resources and no way out without Fly or Dimension
Portal).  I then play a second time at 'Hard' and a third time at 'Expert'.
Every once in a while the maps looks winnable at 'Impossible' and I will
try that too, though I have only won on maybe half a dozen maps at that
level.
--


- Burt Johnson
   MindStorm, Inc.
   burt@...
   http://www.mindstorm-inc.com

--- Burt Johnson <burt@...> wrote:
> I still play HOMM 3. I didn't like 4.
>
> I went through all the scenarios twice.  Now when I
> play, I use the
> auto-generator to create a large, single layered map
> (I don't really like
> the caverns below -- they take too long for my
> tastes).  I can win about
> 99% of the time in 'normal' mode, and about 70% at
> 'expert' mode.  I don't
> use any of the cheat codes though, and forgot them
> years ago.


How do you create scenerios??





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Really, I like both, but HOMM4 lacks the auto-generator, so I downloaded
lots of maps and found the main Homm playing community likes their games
pitched a level I find too hard. I like to have FUN, not play war games,
so 3 is more to my taste, but I do like the magic system in 4.

Burt Johnson wrote:

> I still play HOMM 3. I didn't like 4.
>
> I went through all the scenarios twice.  Now when I play, I use the
> auto-generator to create a large, single layered map (I don't really like
> the caverns below -- they take too long for my tastes).  I can win about
> 99% of the time in 'normal' mode, and about 70% at 'expert' mode.  I don't
> use any of the cheat codes though, and forgot them years ago.
>
> Any specific questions, other than for cheat codes?
>
> >I am the owner of a new Mac G4 and I broke out my old Heroes of Might and
> >Magic
> >game and I was hoping to find others that played too



--
Rob Bannister

I still play HOMM 3. I didn't like 4.

I went through all the scenarios twice.  Now when I play, I use the
auto-generator to create a large, single layered map (I don't really like
the caverns below -- they take too long for my tastes).  I can win about
99% of the time in 'normal' mode, and about 70% at 'expert' mode.  I don't
use any of the cheat codes though, and forgot them years ago.

Any specific questions, other than for cheat codes?

>I am the owner of a new Mac G4 and I broke out my old Heroes of Might and
>Magic
>game and I was hoping to find others that played too
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

--


- Burt Johnson
   MindStorm, Inc.
   burt@...
   http://www.mindstorm-inc.com

davidgmisner wrote:

>
> I am the owner of a new Mac G4 and I broke out my old Heroes of Might
> and Magic
> game and I was hoping to find others that played too
>
Sorry, I admit I did dust of HOMM3 a couple of weeks back, but I am far
too busy with The Sims for which I have gigabytes of downloaded extras.

--
Rob Bannister

I am the owner of a new Mac G4 and I broke out my old Heroes of Might and Magic
game and I was hoping to find others that played too

hi,
well i am not really a new player of HoMM...
i used to play this game a lot on PC  and than i switch to MA and
now i a a new player on MAc since i just got again HoMM III which
is my fav ....

anyway i hope to mwe can meet and host some nice games
with you guys.....

Prehaps elemating the other player was not the goal of the level. Try using a
cheat code to
see the whole map.

--- In mac-homm@yahoogroups.com, "allan_marcus" <yahoo@p...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was playing the Mark of the Tiger scenario, and I killed all the trolls (the
orange
> player), but the computer never said I had eliminated the orange player! In
fact, I
> killed everything on the screen, captures all the towns the resources and
everything.
> Any ideas? Anyone seen this happen?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allan

Hello,

I was playing the Mark of the Tiger scenario, and I killed all the trolls (the
orange
player), but the computer never said I had eliminated the orange player! In
fact, I
killed everything on the screen, captures all the towns the resources and
everything.
Any ideas? Anyone seen this happen?

Thanks,

Allan

--- In mac-homm@yahoogroups.com, Rocco J Carello
<rcarello@n...> wrote:
> I've hosted the patch on my .mac account. Let me see if I can
remember
> where it is...
> http://homepage.mac.com/rogue27/patch/
>
> try that.
>
> -rogue
>
Rogue, you are da man. Thanks!

I've hosted the patch on my .mac account. Let me see if I can remember
where it is...
http://homepage.mac.com/rogue27/patch/

try that.

-rogue



On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 08:42 pm, damiensunshine wrote:

> hi, does anyone know where this patch is hosted? The ftp for
> 3DO doesn't work, and the gamespy website requires a
> subscription to download it. that's BS.
> Thanks.
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hi, does anyone know where this patch is hosted? The ftp for
3DO doesn't work, and the gamespy website requires a
subscription to download it. that's BS.
Thanks.