[Al ex]

DOS programmers did a lot of funny stuff with mouse implementation back in the day. In Ultima Underworld, you need to adjust manual mouse correction under Advanced settings -> Manual correction. IIRC, it’s 640×240 (don’t ask me why…). 🙂

[fiffi]

Wow. Thanks a lot, Al-ex! That helped. At least a little… There are many quirks to this. 🙂

I followed your suggestion and it worked better, but it was still not quite reliable. I then added a Black Magic/Mouse Reset as the first element in my deadly strike, and now it seems to work properly. I’ll test it a little more.

By the way, I published my design to Might And Magic: World of Xeen here, if anyone is interested.

[Al ex]

Yeah, I’m using automated Mouse Reset in several games, too. Especially in Win95 games (Diablo for example). Never needed it in Ultima Underworld, but if it helps, it’s a quick and easy fix.

[fiffi]

I haven’t gotten around to Win95 yet. I looked at the tutorial and it seems easy enough. I guess I must clear some room on my tablet first. 😊
There is much to learn here. I started working on Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire, using relative mouse like I use to. But then I discovered that it seems to be perfectly playable using absolute mouse. This will make the design much simpler and more intuitive.

[Al ex]

Win95 is just as buggy a mess as it was on a real machine back then. Which means it works surprisingly well in Dosbox in general, but it’s always to prone to cause some grief. 😉

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