Hey there, I tried to play this game but having the mouse inverted by default is completely ruining the game for me. Is there any way to solve this, bar inverting my mouse driver axis?

hope this helps.

That is one nasty-looking mouse :P

heh, don't get caught up on the messenger, focus on the message... ;)

on a serious note I've no idea how to (re)invert the mouse, perhaps some
kind individual(s) of the intarwebs might provide a solution for ya. If I and I
stumble upon someting' I'll post back in this thread, good luck.

sorted

Download this file: http://jurrie.net/files/ctm21b4x.zip

Extract the file ctm21b4x\inverted\ctmouseY.exe to your Magic Carpet directory

Edit the autoexec part in your dosboxMC.conf file in your Magic Carpet directory like so:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount C .
c:
ctmouseY.exe
imgmount d ".\CARPET.CD\game.gog" -t iso -fs iso
d:
cd carpet
cls
CARPET.EXE
exit

Enjoy sane mouse controls in the game (but freaky controls in the menus) :-D

nice one jurrie, many thanks

I just did all that, doesn't change anything in the game.

Thanks - it seems to work for me. The only problem is that now the mouse is inverted in the menu (which I should have seen coming. But it's preferable I think.

In other words, I might as well flip my mouse driver axis? Was hoping dosbox would have a simple setting for inverting it in-game. Oh well :(

I have the same problem as piccolo113, no effect from making the changes described. Does it matter that the game is installed in program files under windows 7 even though I am running dosbox with admin privileges?

Can anyone point me to how I would do this on a Mac?

The file linked to above isn't available anymore, can someone re-post a working link to a copy of this file? The inverted mouse controls are driving me mad.

EDIT: I realized what the file was and downloaded it elsewhere. But after updating the .conf file now the game just doesn't load...

Hi i have tried to do this to fix the inverted mouse, this doesn't work

there are 4 config files

dosboxMC
dosboxMC_client
dosboxMC_server
dosboxMC_single

the first doesn't have an [autoexec] section i still tired it in a number of different ways. it doesn't work in any of the other 3
i have tried this in like 100 different ways i think this fix is outdated does anyone have a current fix or do i need to buy a nice gaming mouse where i can just invert the y axis in the config settings.

i have spent hours doing this and none of the so called "solutions" i have found worked.

please help

Edit dosboxMC_single, it's slightly different for Magic Carpet 1 vs 2 but for both under the mount C line add the following two lines:

c:
ctMouseY.exe

should have something like this now:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

@ECHO OFF
imgmount D "..\game.ins" -t iso -fs iso
mount C "..\GAME"
c:
ctmouseY.exe
d:
cls
NETHERW.exe
exit

Then copy the ctMouseY.exe file to either the main directory for 1 or the Game directory for 2.

I know it is 25 years late, but nobody did it so far. so...

invert mouse hack

carpet.exe
md5: 0763e103ed4935276050a0690f464850
sha1: 155555e7c2382b037d37378b619854e2e10bc8e0
echo "0002b02f: 90 90" | xxd -r - carpet.exe # low res (f7 da 89 c3)
echo "0002b27a: 90 90" | xxd -r - carpet.exe # hi res (f7 d9 83 fb)

hidden.exe
md5: 22ba3fb0df2d9f89c9fb31fe5dbcd638
sha1: 823c30fe30981bfbda039e2698737b71defc6401
echo "0002b22f: 90 90" | xxd -r - hidden.exe # low res (f7 da 89 c3)
echo "0002b27a: 90 90" | xxd -r - hidden.exe # hi res (f7 d9 83 fb)

NETHERW.EXE 1039105
md5: ce911718f58f5376ea939ae48c945fec
sha1: ffa4a1557260cd6a0ef210166498e582ca0d6f46
echo "0009f2ad: 90 90" | xxd -r - NETHERW.EXE # low res (f7 da b9 c8)
echo "0009f1f3: 90 90" | xxd -r - NETHERW.EXE # hi res (f7 d9 83 fb)