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Blake00
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posted May 04, 2026 07:24 AM |
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Edited by Blake00 at 07:26, 04 May 2026.
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Early teaser demo of Heroes 1 lost to time
Hi guys,
The folks running the Heroes3WOG groups recently posted a really cool reel on their facebook of a Heroes of Might & Magic 1 early teaser demo. It appears to be on rails and much earlier than the the more polished Heroes 1 demo I played back in the day on a PC Gamer CD which kicked off my love of this series. I can see early beta graphics and all sorts of interesting differences.
The video reel: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2468048263712720
I'd love a copy of it but couldn't find a download for it on their site and when I emailed them they sadly couldn't find the files anymore (apparently the video was filmed ages ago), so did a google search for it and all I could find was this forum convo from 2012:
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24000
Which references an original post on another forum here:
http://www.classicdosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3401#p3401
Both reference a long gone "netload" download and sadly Web Archive did not backup the download either.
If anyone has a copy of it please let me know. I can give you a link to some cloud storage to drag and drop it onto and then I can put the file on Internet Archive to ensure it's not lost forever.
Obviously most people would consider on on-rails demo of some ancient game not very interesting, but I'm big on preserving lost things relating to my favourite games (eg I've been rescuing thousands of lost Civilization 2 scenarios over the last few years) and I'm a huge HoMM1 fan and still nostalgically play it every few years despite the sequels being obviously superior. I'm also the creator of the Heroes of Might & Magic 2 mod for Civilization 2 & it's HoMM1 addon which for the addon was a bit of a struggle to find enough good HoMM1 big images to use (due to it's lack of cutscenes compared to HoMM2 onwards) and while I managed and got it done, I'm still very curious to get my hands on more HoMM1 art style stuff and can see this demo contained a decent amount of art that didn't make it into the final game!
So I'm very much hoping I can get my hands on a copy to explore and preserve for all! 
Early art example from the demo video:
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Blake00
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posted May 04, 2026 10:58 AM |
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Edited by Blake00 at 10:59, 04 May 2026.
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