Originally Posted by 0x47

Initial Note:
VCMI is not designed to work for resolutions below 800x600 (like the N900's 800x480), because HOMM3 was neither. So running VCMI on the N900 is considered a hack and far from stable or playable. If you feel like you want to help improving this, have a look at the side-notes below.

Current issues:

• VCMI is not installable from apt-get, as it fails due to a preinst-script (script is supposed to tell user about third party dependencies).
• VCMI is currently not working if ran from the Hildon icon. Run VCMI from command line only!

Installation Instructions:

If your installation was successful from the Hildond Application Manager (HAM), you may continue with step #3. Otherwise continue below. (You have to install from the Application Manager)

- First open up a xterm from your application menu (X Terminal). Get root access ("sudo gainroot" or just "root")
- If upgrading from a previous version, remove vcmi:

Code:

# apt-get remove vcmi vcmi-bin vcmi-data

1. Install VCMI from the extras/devel repository with apt-get:

Code:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install vcmi

2. If you already had VCMI running before, you're done and should be able to run VCMI (vcmiclient). If this is your first setup, continue with step #3.
3. Install HOMM3 Complete (all addons) on Windows (or Wine).
4. Install WOG on the same machine.
5. Copy the following directories from the Windows Heroes 3 to your VCMI installation (/opt/vcmi/):

• HOMM3/Data/
• HOMM3/Mp3/
• HOMM3/Maps/
• HOMM3/picsall/

You should now be able to run VCMI from the menu (new icon) or from xterm by typing "vcmiclient" and pressing enter. If you have a crash it's a good idea to run from xterm to see the error output and to be able to paste it here.

Some further notes:

• On copying the Data directory from your Windows installation, there will already be a Data directory in /opt/vcmi/. Make sure the new Data directory is merged with the existing one. (The already existing one is from VCMI)
• The files from the vcmi-data package are from the VCMI release, so it is not the binary data from your HOMM3 installation. (they are automatically installed to /opt/vcmi/Data/ as described above)
• I can't help much on installing Heroes 3 and WOG. There should be plenty of sources regarding this in the wilderness of the Internet.
• To get some information about crashes, you should start vcmi from xterm. To do so, simply type "vcmiclient" and hit the enter key, as the binary is in /usr/bin/.

All of you should take a look at http://wiki.vcmi.eu/index.php?title=TODO_list and check out what is working and what is not. VCMI is not really playable yet, but if people help it may be playable in a not too far future. Help them get it to work properly (check you my signature).