See here :

https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=11090

Reuploaded the files to contain changes for the upcoming version 1.4.2 (some minor changes in unit stats and abilities) and now includes a few files that were missing from the previous upload (hero unit icons for heroes with a single digit ID). If any files are still missing, let me know.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kxUxiflUCHpAgRnSO2XKtYpBqMXgnlAG/view?usp=sharing

I kept forgetting to upload this, sorry about that.

Simply make a backup of your data folder then overwrite with the files which are in this.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H-B3552ozuPXg7pZVl3ootYBARNpwH7h/view?usp=sharing

You can get yours here!

Slitherine :

https://www.slitherine.com/game/master-of-magic-caster-of-magic-for-windows

Steam :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557960/Master_of_Magic_Caster_of_Magic_for_Windows/

GoG :

https://www.gog.com/game/master_of_magic_caster_of_magic_for_windows

Also known as CoM II, it will be officially released on the 22th of April!

http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=105085

If you want to help by playtesting the new “no dosbox required” version of Caster of Magic, read this : http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=10020

Version 6.03 is ready. You might wonder where did 6.02 go, well, I sent it to Slitherine as usual weeks ago but nothing happened. Coronavirus problems? I hope not.
Either way, if you don’t want to wait an unknown amount of time for the update, you can download the following patcher :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I7Sj4xLqIe7H0yXDGpghDST7Tk6DFBKY

Unzip this into your CoM folder and run 601to603.bat. Note that Caster of Magic version 6.01 is required, otherwise it will not work. If you already applied the hotfix, you will likely see warning messages which can be safely ignored. I recommend making a backup before patching anyway – the patcher will not check if your files are the correct version.

This is the changelog :
6.02
-Fixed 6.01 bug : when low difficulty should have prevented enemies from stalling, they were sometimes forced to stall instead and failed to attack enemies.
-On Fair difficulty, neutrals are only prevented from using movement speed or invisibility based stalling, they can use flying or “out of ammo” stalling.
-The AI will now use the high difficulty “build more settlers” strategy when they are starting on a different plane from the human player even if that plane is Arcanus.
-Barbarian AI players are now aware they can spend gold to buy Magic Markets
-Fixed bug : AI builds Wizard’s Guild in High Men cities as if it still required a Library instead of a Magic Market.
-Fixed bug : The AI prioritizes unit production in cities that have Orihalcon and have a race that can build Magicians even before the Wizard’s Guild was built.
-Fixed bug : The AI restriction to not produce Trireme when Galley is available in the same city had no effect.
-The AI will not build Carrack in cities where Warship is available.
-AI with Expansionist Objective will build up to almost twice as many ships as other personalities.
-The maximal amount of ships any AI will want to build is capped at 108. (per plane)
-The maximal amount of ships any AI will want to build is also capped at the number of their cities times 4.
-When the AI calculates production priority for various units types based on levels and figure count, the effects from buildings disabled by Evil Presence will no longer be included.
-The AI no longer adds “is production boosting building” priority to University for races that do not get a Mechanician’s Guild.
-Fixed bug : Peaceful AI didn’t have the intended additional power distribution priority to produce RP.
-Fixed bug : The cap of desired mana crystals for power distribution to avoid high skill wizards making too much mana was 8 times higher than intended, making it overflow and possibly making the AI produce no mana when they should have.
-The AI is now allowed to use the lowest tax rate.
-Fixed bug : AI can cast Invisibility on the overland map without knowing the spell if Divine Order is in effect.
-Fixed bug : Additional AI overland spell priority of casting True Sight against Sorcery players had no effect
-The AI will not cast Zombies in combat against Wall of Fire
-Below Master difficulty, the AI will not cast Drain Power before turn 120 even if they somehow obtain the spell early.
-Power Link’s effect is now disabled during Time Stop as intended.
-Fixed bug : Combat summoned Paladins and Catapults don’t count as fantastic units for some effects that affect fantastic creatures only.
-Propose Treaty menu now checks for relation being >= the required amount instead of only >.
-When the AI offers gold after being Threatened, gold amount is now the value determined from the turn count, but no more than half the AI’s gold. Previously, all of the AI’s gold was available, but if the amount to give was higher than that, instead only a quarter of the available gold was actually given.
-AI players will not offer a spell after being Threatened or when requesting a Treaty from the player, if they already gave the player a spell that way – gold will be offered instead. (they realize after the first spell that it wasn’t worth it if the player keeps coming back for more or broke the treaty and needs another one.)
-AI wizards will also not offer a spell if they have been banished by the player previously. (they understand the spell will be used against them and don’t trust the player.)
-Undead Settlers now lose the “Create Outpost” ability instead of having the ability displayed but being unable to build.
-Fixed some outdated descriptions of predefined default wizards (some of them were mentioning retorts they had in older versions)

6.03
-fixed bug : The AI sometimes cancelled Time Stop earlier than intended as the formula wasn’t updated to the new maintenance cost mechanics.
-Wild Boars can now be summoned by Fairy Ring
-Floating Island now cannot be summoned by Fairy Ring.
-Fighter’s Guild description now mentions later buildings are unavailable until 1406.
-Fixed bug : Troll Settlers have the stats and abilities of a High Elf Settler when built.
-Fixed bug : When neutral monsters rampage then disappear, undead raised by them don’t disappear and stay hidden in the city, being unable to move and possibly causing issues (as it results in two players having units on the same tile, the city owner and the neutral player -breaking two important game rules, the 9 unit per tile rule and the one player per tile rule at the same time.)
-AI minimal Dispel Magic priority for unit curses is now halved if the unit affected has a production cost below 100.
-Runemaster and AEther Binding now adds at most +6 priority to casting Dispel Magic each (but still 50% of the total priority if it would be less than 6).
-When the AI casts a combat spell that has a slider option (Dispel Magic or Dispelling Wave), the slider amount now depends on the combat situation : The AI will use maximal slider if the enemy is at least twice as powerful, and will use none if the enemy is at least 3 times weaker, in steps of 25% slider cost for each “Army comparison result level”.
-Units raised by Necromancy items gain the Animated status.

Many of you are already be aware but Slitherine obtained the rights for Master of Magic last summer. You might already know that they’re including the -previously unofficial- patch in the official release, but I haven’t talked about Caster of Magic.
So Caster of Magic will be available for sale on Steam, GoG, and Slitherine’s website starting today!
While that means you can’t download it for free anymore, I hoping this money will ensure I’ll be able to continue developing Caster of Magic in the future no matter what happens, and ideally, produce proper source code for it as a next step in development. As you already know, Caster of Magic was developed entirely by hacking the executable files as no one has the source code for the game anymore. While I was able to get very far using the current approach, at this time the really important missing features – enabling more than 4 enemy wizards in the game for example, or adding new content without having to remove the same amount of existing stuff – will require source code. That said, this is a plan for the future, and as long as possible I will keep patching the current Caster of Magic.
Obviously, the optional anime portraits won’t be included, those remain available for download from my website separately, and of course, you need to own the game first to use it.
The Master of Magic patch is now version number 1.52 and will be part of the official release of the game, which is also available on Steam and Slitherine’s website starting today, in addition to the existing GoG version. The contents are similar to the 1.51 patch but any included change originating from me or Kyrub’s Insecticide that changed gameplay is removed and now available as optional patches, so you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Lots of thanks to Drake178 for his help in making that possible!
https://www.gog.com/game/master_of_magic_caster_of_magic
WARNING!
Different versions are not compatible. If you own the game on GOG, you have to buy the DLC on GoG as well. Same applies to Steam and Slitherine own website. This is especially important as it was reported it is possible to buy the DLC without the base game there but it’s not possible to install it that way anyway.

Just wanted everyone to know, the next version will be released soon, probably in less than a week.
Among others, it’ll contain building queues and sorting cities on the cities screen by race, population, food, power, production,etc. so it’ll be a big deal.

Also, I noticed the donation button sometimes fails to load in my browser and PayPal’s site itself is kinda weird, it’s new but some links still load old pages which contain links that give errors that say it’s an outdated version of the site. Anyway, I was trying to find the donation button functionality and it’s pretty much gone so I wonder if it even still works. The site says it’s under the “Tools” menu but there is no such thing on the site anywhere.
So, question is, does the donation button load in your browser? Can you click it? If not, I might need to look at other solutions like Patreon… not that I was receiving all that much money but hey, anything is better than nothing. (and who knows, maybe I’m not receiving much because the button broke a long time ago for most users?)

Yes, finally it’s out!
For those who haven’t been using the experimental versions, a summary of new features:
-There is an additional difficulty level now in the middle. Levels have been removed to Easy, Normal, Advanced, Expert, Master and Lunatic, out of which Expert is the “new” level. Master is Extreme, Lunatic is Impossible. Advanced is a bit easier than Hard was.
-High end summons are now cheaper to cast.In general rare and very rare repeatable overland spells are cheaper but creatures are affected the most.
-The AI learned to build and use doomstacks. It’s not as good as the human and it’s limited to intercontinental movement capable units but it’s much better than before. As the AI commits more powerful units on offense, its garrisons might be unfortunately a bit easier to defeat.
-The AI is smarter at using intercontinental stacks and picking targets for overland attacks in general.
-The AI has a completely new procedure for picking overland spells to cast so it’s also improved in this area.
-Banished wizards can now cast spells in combat (at a major cost penalty) and receive power income but the other effects of being banished remain.
-Sorcery realm has been rebalanced – it should be slightly better in the early game and it should be slightly less overpowered in the late game, tho this will probably need further changed. Most importantly, it has an uncommon overland summoning spell now!
-In many ways I tried to make the game a bit more “player friendly” for example changed how the AI is allowed to use Spell Blast and removed Nature’s Wrath from the game. Also, while changing designing the new difficulty levels, several diplomacy formulas have been altered to be less harsh towards the human player on higher difficulties. As the AI is now quite powerful, being forced into a 4v1 war is no longer results in a playable game on Master and above in most cases so it should happen less frequently.
-Very rare creatures gained the ability “Supernatural” which allows them to deal a bit of damage even if their damage would otherwise get reduced to zero. Note that this is not the same as Armor Piercing – it doesn’t reduce enemy armor effectiveness, unless it would reduce the damage below this “minimal amount”. This shouldn’t affect most of the gameplay and is only relevant against high level heroes with top equipment – the only counter to those is supposed to be a large stack of very rare creatures but with enough defense they were able to take zero damage even from a Great Drake.
-There is a new racial unrest table, and it’s no longer possible to change your starting race through Move Fortress.