Click on the "Create shortcut" button on the helper's main window.Ģ. (Optional) Create a shortcut that will run the helper and game together:ġ. Simply run WarcraftMouseHelper.exe and then run the game. * Press Pause/Break to pause and un-pause the helper (disabling and re-enabling all above features). * Press and hold Backspace to delete characters until released (rather than needing to press it repeatedly). * Press Shift + F12 to toggle auto-selecting units and structures while holding middle click. * Press Shift + F11 to toggle scrolling with WASD. * Press Shift + F10 to show and hide this list. * Press F6-F8 and F10-F12 a second time to toggle their functions off (rather than having to press a different key to). * Press Esc to open the game's Options menu (which, normally, requires pressing F10). * Press WASD to scroll around the map (can be disabled). (For mice without horizontal scrolling mouse wheels or pre-Vista machines) * Hold Shift while scrolling down/up or use the 4th/5th mouse buttons to scroll left/right.
(A horizontal scrolling mouse wheel and Windows Vista or later are required for scrolling left/right) * Move the mouse wheel up/down/left/right to scroll around the map.
* Middle click and hold to auto-select units and structures as you mouse over them (for quickly checking health). (Can also be used when the town center is selected to build roads) * Middle click to order units to repair or explicitly move (without attacking or harvesting). (Can also be used when the town center is selected to build walls and cancel structure placement) * Right click to order units to attack or harvest/transport goods (or move, in most cases). * Left click and drag to draw selection boxes around multiple units without having to hold down the Ctrl key. Finally, it allows for scrolling the map with both the mouse wheel and the WASD keys, as well as other minor convenience features. It also allows for clicking and dragging to select multiple units without having to hold down the Ctrl key.
This allows you to give context sensitive orders with the mouse buttons (like in more modern RTSes) instead of using keyboard commands or mousing over to the command bar. It runs in the background while you're playing and maps the game's built-in keyboard commands to the right and middle mouse buttons and the mouse wheel. This Windows utility allows for better mouse control in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans when played in DOSBox under Windows. DOOM at its original resolution without any scaling or enlarging.Īs I mentioned, these settings are my personal preference, so you may want to experiment to find settings that look good to you and give you the performance you want.For Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994) by Blizzard Entertainment It’s amazing how much information game artists were able to cram into so few pixels. Just for comparison, here is DOOM at its original resolution. DOOM enlarged with no enhancement or scaling. The results vary depending on what’s being displayed on the screen, but something is better than nothing. Notice how the large red numbers in the screenshots below are pixellated in the first image but smoothed out in the second image with hq3x scaling. hq3x scales the image up 300%, but it can make things look a bit “cartoon-ish” because it smooths pixellated edges. This will depend on your personal preference and the speed of your hardware. Right after that I like to change scaler=normal2x to scaler=hq3x. To do this I change the aspect=false line to aspect=true. Once the output is set to ddraw, we can enable aspect correction and scaling. Some DOS resolutions do not use square pixels, so aspect ratio correction keeps these games from looking “squished” on the screen (old CRT monitors did not have a fixed number of pixels, so this was not an issue back in the day). Next I change output=surface to output=ddraw to allow for scaling and aspect ratio correction. If your monitor is different, be sure to use its resolution (e.g. Open the nf file via the Start menu.įirst, I change the line that says fullresolution=original to fullresolution=1920x1080, which is my monitor’s native resolution. These settings can be changed by opening the DOSBox Options from the Start menu. The nf file controls how DOSBox displays old games and software. Compared to today’s high-definition games, DOS games used low resolutions, so playing old games in DOSBox on a modern LCD monitor or HDTV is not an optimal experience without some configuration.