Connecting online for Heroes III and IV gaming

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Connecting online for Heroes III and IV gaming

Unread postby Grey Pilgrim » 23 Sep 2009, 00:20

Does anyone remember how to connect via TCP/IP to play Heroes III and IV online?? I know in my modem days a friend and I could connect via the Internet (TCP/IP) to play (mainly) Heroes III and, sometimes, Heroes IV. Been doing mainly Hot Seat games for IV and V for a few years now, but wanted to go back and try a Heroes III came online. We now both have Comcast "high speed internet" connections, and when we tried to connect via TCP/IP, the machine that was "joining" was not able to find the IP address of the "host" machine. Are we doing something wrong?? Can you not use TCP/IP with Comcast cable? Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Unread postby UndeadHalfOrc » 23 Sep 2009, 01:36

Hamachi works wonders. It's an emulator that assigns new IP addresses that the Heroes game will recognize. I tried it with Heroes 2 and 3, no problems. Inside Hamachi there are user created channels so it's easy to find your friends.
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Unread postby Grey Pilgrim » 23 Sep 2009, 02:35

I've seen posts about Hamachi...any thoughts about Gameranger? I've seen people talking about that, as well.
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