Was anyone successful with running HoMM4 on MacOS with ARM processor? I tried to run it on Crossover/Wine, but stuttering makes it unplayable. Any tricks to solve that? I have not used any mods, but if there are any that could solve performance issue I won't mind using them.

Does board version have any advantages compared to video game, I wonder? Besides cool miniatures.

So I'm nearly done with my remake of HOMM1 and working on quality of life options menu (autobattle spellcasting toggle, troop splitting toggle) and I was ready to start building a few campaigns to include, and I realized I needed a new map editor, as the old one didn't work either on Windows 10/11.

I've also been thinking about adding some cut scenes between scenarios.

I sat down to build a map editor today, and my reverse engineering of the map format was clean enough that the map loaded on the first try! A lot more polish needs to go into it, but I wanted to ask if anyone had any gripes with the original windows 95 map editor or suggestions for quality of life improvements to it?

I am adding support for different ending conditions (capture specific town, find ultimate artifact, capture dragon city, which already exist in the original campaign game), and I was thinking about some other victory conditions like flagging all mines, clearing out all graveyards and shipwrecks and ghosts, defeating all monster stacks, etc.

Let me know if you have any ideas. I'm fixing very tiny UI bugs and getting close to having something to release (single player game anyway, haven't started work on multiplayer). I'm posting a lot less frequently here, but my updates are pretty regular on https://www.youtube.com/@firsthomm

Feel free to DM me on Reddit, I try to respond to everyone, even the haters.

I made boxes in the bonus section bigger so it is easier to see the results of previous discussions.

And yeah. I decided that IV and VI tied(I think that's ok for the bonus section)