Downloads and links

[Catwalk]

One of our goals is to provide an extensive database of MoM resources across the web, including both links to web sites (even dead ones, which can be resurrected with archive sites) and downloadable stuff. You will be able to find it all in this thread, as soon as we manage to put it up

I'll be keeping this thread clean, but please put any requests and suggestions here and I'll delete them after they've been carried out.

[Catwalk]

SITES

http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Mast...Magic_Wiki
This WIKI is one of the best online sources of info about MoM. I am surprised by its quality.

http://www.ringofsaturn.com/games/MoM/home.html
Translated version of the Russian MoM site which is an extensive encyclopedia about many game concepts: Retorts, spells, units, heroes, races, buildings, terrain and wizards. Status: Archive.

http://ilikeserena.dx.am/MoM/jarvinen/index.html
Jarvinen's site, the biggest and most long-lived MoM site around. Status: Archive.

http://ilikeserena.dx.am/MoM/
Active MoM site maintained by Klaas van Aarsen, aka I Like Serena. Hosts a combat simulator and a lot of useful MoM info. Status: Active since 1997!

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-game...-magic.php
This is where you can download MoM for free. Abandonia now charges for titles. Status: Active.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/master_of_magic
Master of Magic for sale at Good Old Games for $5.99. Also has a small MoM forum. Status: Active.

http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=649
Single thread with lots and lots of MoM discussion since 2004. Status: Active.

http://www.masterofmagic.org/
Old site with extensive information about heroes


DOCUMENTS

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/564960-master.../faqs/2059
The unofficial MoM FAQ, maintained by Dan Simpson. Last updated in 2009.

http://www.capitalgstudios.com/MOM/Maste...0Guide.pdf
The official MoM strategy guide in digital form (I have the real thing sitting on my shelf, it's huge!)


EDITORS & TOOLS

http://sourceforge.net/projects/momedit/...p/download
MoMEdit, save game editor

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1430...act1.2.zip
Some thingamajig that Implode made for extracting stuff from LBX files

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nzzynt1qhm...r%2010.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nchtnjb5zm...%20031.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/inohn4iydd...201.03.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zzzjt1wgki...%20021.exe
Joel Schlecht's updated series of spell editors which let you change most game constants for heroes, spells, units, buildings and a few racial stats. Highly recommended. Thanks to b0rsuk for uploading the most recent versions.

http://www.dosbox.com/
DOS emulator which does a great job at running old games, highly recommended.

http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/
Interface improvement for DOSbox, highly recommended if you weren't brought up with DOS.


MODS & PATCHES

http://ilikeserena.dx.am/MoM/eljay/index.html
Extensive info about MoM hacking provided by eljay

insecticide140n.zip
kyrub's ambitious patch project, hosted here at Realms Beyond. Fully functional and finished development, highly recommended.

http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=3642
Psyringe's patch project which corrects and enhances the help entries. Highly recommended.

http://ilikeserena.dx.am/MoM/kmdale/kmdale.zip
Mod by KM Dale, full list of changes can be found at HackMom3.txt and HackMom4.txt.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1430...MOM200.zip
Very extensive mod by Aureus, includes many new features and spells. Full list of changes included in the download.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1430...mom42s.zip
The infamous multi-player shell, by Jay Barnett

[schlechtj]

Hey Catwalk,

Just checking up on Master of Magic after many months. Dragonsword disappeared and I joined a rock band (new songs at http://www.myspace.com/schlechtj) so priorities changed. Lucky to have found this place but I will not be here often. A file you should add to the downloads is what I think is the BEST save game editor (try it out). I have it hosted on my mediafire account here is the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jjzliqyyn1m

Also I have seen complaints about my editors with bugs and what not. There is a file at the end of this page called hacking.zip or something like that. It contains old versions of my editors with bugs so that may be a source of the problems. You may think about deleting it or better yet updating it.

I was planning on doing one more editor before dragonsword dropped off the face of the earth. This would be a miscellaneous game properties editor that could change ... whatever from wall the bonus to whatever. These I was going to pick out from whatever locations Kyrub has discovered. Looks like I like serena has some new info also. If I could get my hands on new locations I could make an editor for that kind of stuff. Better yet if these locations are posted in the eljay file repositories. I was also going to add spell save modifiers to the spell editor but again that info evaporated with ds.

I know sometimes this information is closely guarded but I believe that the more stuff that is editable and the more people think about game balance or fun the better off the community is. Thats why I sometimes spend long hours on these editors when I could just let people fend for themselves on hex editors. There are lots of people with good ideas that just don't have that skill and I want to make it easier for them.

Perhaps you could plea my case to kyrub and serena..... I know you for one would like to see that and It looks like I am the only one who is going to do it. Using the source code for my unit editor as a template makes the job a lot easier - almost plug and play... ONCE the locations are known.

Thanks for listening!

Joel Schlecht

[kyrub]

Hey, Dragonsword's forum is back up, after a year of inactivity!
See http://www.dragonsword.com. Flash started it. Without him, there would be no Insecticide, no Catnip, no ILSe's editor and probably no MoM forum at Realms beyond Orion.

A lot of interesting info and discussion can be read in these forums. I reccomend "Strategy and gameplay" section. I also wrote quite a lot about Insecticide and about the internal game proceedings in the appropriate section. Catnip and Miscellaneous projects store large portions of important mod data/discussion as well.

Thanks, Flash!

[Catwalk]

Wow, has it really been two years? Great to see that it's up, much useful information there indeed. Thanks for the tip.

[kyrub]

One.
I live in a near-light-speed hurry, so my being probably sucks twice as much time from the same period.

[WhiteMage]

Good to hear that dragonsword is back. However, I think we should stick to realmsbeyond now. In order to preempt the horrible possibility of splitting our fans into 2 groups, maybe we should encourage everyone to post only here in the future. A lot of duplications and missed opportunities could be saved. Perhaps, someone could announce there to not continue MOM discussions there, but that area could become a backup server for this just in case this server goes down in the future.

[Catwalk]

If Flash wishes to put in the energy to rebuild a community there, he will likely have some measure of success with that. I won't be posting there again (don't want to have to check up on two forums), but I don't think we'll need to make any kind of announcement about it.

[kyrub]

I'm staying here, for sure, RBO is a shelter for my analytic activity.
Although I can understand anybody who'd want to compare his unique games, to compare unit's strength or chat about book settings to use dragonsword. The forums there have better structure for such "light" kind of activity. It's nice to have a dedicated web for MoM.

On the other hand, I've seen what splitted community can do to a game, with Alpha Centauri and its numerous, half dormant forums. I agree to focus the more serious development / discussion on one website, preferably here.

[simone]

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