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Getting Heroes
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Where to fetch new releases?
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   Heroes development is powered by the free services offered by
SourceForge to the Open-Source community.  The web page of Heroes is
`http://heroes.sourceforge.net/'.

   The latest releases of Heroes is always uploaded to SourceForge and
available from `http://sourceforge.net/projects/heroes/'.  Announces
are sent to the `heroes-announce' mailing list (Note: Mailing lists).

   Source code releases are also uploaded to Ibiblio (formerly MetaLab,
and Sunsite)) in `/pub/linux/games'; see the Ibiblio mirror list
(http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/MIRRORS.html) to find your nearest
mirror.  You will have to wait three or four days to have the files
available on Ibiblio after a release.

   A public CVS server is also accessible.  See
`http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7982' for details.

What to download?
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   Heroes is distributed as five packages with independent version
numbering and release schedule.

`heroes'
     The source code, info file, and man page.

`heroes-data'
     The level data (level maps, sprites, etc.)

`heroes-sound-tracks'
     Sound tracks for the game (.xm files).

`heroes-sound-effects'
     The sound effects for the game (.wav files).

`heroes-hq-sound-tracks'
     High quality sound tracks (.xm files), they will replace some
     sound-tracks from `heroes-sound-track'.

   The two first packages are required, the others are optional.

   The game has been so split because the data and sound files are big
and don't evolve as often as the code does.  It would therefore be
unfair to bloat the bandwidth by requiring the mirrors and users to
download everything on each release.