I would like to play HoMaM2 game

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PC:
CPU=Intel® Celeron® G540 2.5gHz;
MB=Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3 rev.1.0;
RAM=2x2=4giB DDR3-1333 mHz; ( In 15 days it will be 2x8=16giB DDR3-1600mHz );
VGA=[AMD/ATI] RV770 [Radeon HD 4850];
PSU=Trend Sonic ADK-A500W;

If it is possible, I would like to play HoMAM2 game and may be HoMAM3 game;

How to do that under:

  • Linux parrot 5.9.0-2parrot1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.6-2parrot1 (2020-11-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux ?
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YOu have to use wine to install and play it

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I installed wine, then I found a file named start in the top directory of the game and saved it as start.sh, then made it executable with command
chmod +x start.sh
then
wine start.sh
but there appears an error message:

0009:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"Z:\home\gozer\GAMES\HoMM2\start.sh", error c000012f

When I try:

$./start.sh
Running Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Starting DOSBox
/home/gozer/GAMES/HoMM2/game/dosbox/dosbox_x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A file with a similar name exists: libpng12.so.0.59.0.

The file start contains a script:

#!/bin/bash

GOG.com (www.gog.com)

Heroes of Might and Magic 2

chmod -R 0700 game desktop desktop-multi multi music

Initialization

CURRENT_DIR=“$( cd “$( dirname “${BASH_SOURCE[0]}” )” && pwd )”/game
cd “${CURRENT_DIR}”
source support/gog_com.shlib

Game info

GAME_NAME=“$(get_gameinfo 1)”
VERSION=“$(get_gameinfo 2)”
VERSION_DEV=“$(get_gameinfo 3)”

Actions

run_game() {
echo “Running ${GAME_NAME}”
export LC_ALL=“C”
run_dosbox “dosboxHoMM2.conf” “dosboxHoMM2_single.conf”
}

default() {
run_game
}

Options

define_option “-s” “–start” “start ${GAME_NAME}” “run_game” “$@”

Defaults

standard_options “$@”

cd “${CURRENT_DIR}” && ln -sfn “./game/dosboxHoMM2.conf” …/config

So I can not start this game: “Heroes of Might and Magic 2”

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Wine is used for start exe file. Not bash file
You are missing libpng12 which is not on repository anymore. You can download .so file on internet and put it to game folder

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Thank You!
I just renamed the file existing libpng12.so.0.59.0 to libpng12.so.0
Then the game starts successfully