Hotlap Heroes Mac OS

Dec 14, 2006 Mac OS X, Mac OS X Intel. 6 offers from $79.95. Heroes of might and magic V: Epic collection. 3.5 out of 5 stars. Hotlap Heroes Fasten your seatbelt, start your engines and invite your friends over for some seriously chaotic single-screen multiplayer racing for up to 8 players in HOTLAP HEROES.

  1. Hotlap Heroes Fasten your seatbelt, start your engines and invite your friends over for some seriously chaotic single-screen multiplayer racing for up to 8 players in HOTLAP HEROES.
  2. The most frequent installer filename for the application is: HeroesV15Update.dmg. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is Freeverse Software. This free application is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later. The program lies within Games, more precisely Strategy.
  3. Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (commonly referred to as Heroes of Might & Magic 3, or simply Heroes 3) is a turn-based strategy game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing originally released for Microsoft Windows by the 3DO Company in 1999.
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Heroes of Might and Magic II
Developers
Expansion
Publishers
Release dates
DOSOctober 1, 1996
WindowsOctober 1, 1996
Mac OS (Classic)October 1, 1996
Windows (DOSBox)August 20, 2009
  • 1Availability
  • 2Game data
  • 5Audio
  • 6Network
  • 7Issues fixed
  • 8Other information
⤏ Go to series page
Subseries of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest1995
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars1996
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia1999
Heroes Chronicles2001
Heroes of Might and Magic IV2002
Heroes of Might and Magic V2006
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East2007
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes2011
Might & Magic Heroes VI2011
Might & Magic Heroes VI: Shades of Darkness2013
Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition2015
Might & Magic Heroes VII2015
Might & Magic Heroes VII: Trial by Fire2016

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Celestial Heavens forums for game series

Key points

ddraw.dll is recommended to make the game playable on Windows 8 and 10.
winevdm is also useful as well if you need to install a game that uses a 16 bit installer


Availability[edit]

SourceDRMNotesKeysOS
Retail While the Windows version of the game is 32 bit you will still need Winevdm because the Installer is 16 bit
GOG.com Comes with multiple bonuses, including the expansion 'The Price of Loyalty'. Includes the native Windows version as well as the DOS version pre-packaged with DOSBox.[1]
Ubisoft Store Gold Edition is included with Ubisoft+.

DLC and expansion packs

Game data[edit]

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Configuration file(s) location[edit]

SystemLocation
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location[edit]

SystemLocation
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>GAMES[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video[edit]

Graphics featureStateNotes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
WindowedToggle with Alt+ Enter (when using DOSBox).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input[edit]

Heroes
Keyboard and mouseStateNotes
RemappingFor DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller supportFor DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

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Audio[edit]

Audio featureStateNotes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audioOn Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

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Localizations

LanguageUIAudioSubNotes
English
French
German
RussianUnofficial localization by «PC Boheme/Fargus»

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

TypeNativeNotes
Local playHot seat
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed[edit]

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows[edit]

The original disc release uses a 16-bit installer.
  1. Insert the CD
  2. Download Winevdm.
  3. Extract it Somewhere
  4. Click on otvdmw.exe then look for SETUP.EXE
  5. You may get a 'SEGV' error and if that's the case just click on continue
  6. Follow the Prompts

Playing the game on Windows 8 and 10[edit]

Mac Os Mojave

  1. Download ddraw.
  2. Extract it somewhere
  3. Copy ddraw.dll to your installation folder (where you installed the game at)
  4. Right click on HEROES2W.exe and go to properties
  5. On Compatibility Mode Select Windows 98 / Windows ME
  6. Click on Reduced colour mode and set it to '16-Bit (65536) Colour'
  7. Also Click on 'Run this Program as an Administrator
  8. Click Apply and OK
  9. Run the game

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specsSupportedNotes
WinG[5]
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC32-bit64-bitNotes
Windows64-bit requires the fheroes2 source port[2]
macOS (OS X)Requires the fheroes2 source port[3]
LinuxRequires the fheroes2 source port[4]

System requirements[edit]

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Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)1 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)256 MB512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
  2. version 0.9.1 - last accessed on 2021-04-05
  3. version 0.9.1 - last accessed on 2021-04-05
  4. Debian -- Details of package fheroes2-pkg in sid - last accessed on 2021-04-05
  5. WinG - Wikipedia - last accessed on 2020-03-19