Nevermind, everyone... 😀

The problem is solved...!

After reading in the game manual that the mouse axis should behave the "helicopter" way, I thought it was very strange...

So I tested with the official DOSBOX 0.70 and, voilá!!! It worked fine!

Then I tested again Gulikoza's latest build and it was also fine... Funny is, I never change a SINGLE setting during the whole "problem" duration!

Oh, and the game doesn't have a "mouse axis invert" option, as far as I could see...

It must have been one of those mistery "one in a million times" bug... 😁

Thanks for the help, anyway!

Dosbox keeps ROCKING classic DOS games!!!

😎

??? Maybe you were using the mouse upside down (with the cable facing up)? (;

I actually knew a guy that was using his mouse that way, on an Amiga. I always wondered how he managed to press the mouse buttons.

Still some more options for the mouse might be useful.

@ ADDICT : Funny joke, but no even close there... Hey, that's the first thing I checked! 🤣 I would have to be VERY drunk to handle the mouse upside down, and still I'd complain why the hell the mouse buttons were no longer at my fingertips!!! 😉
(mind you, i NEVER drink) 😉

@ WD : I totally agree with you! Maybe in some future Dosbox release we'll have an option (dosbox.conf ?) to change/override the mouse setup in some games... 😎

Thanks for answering anyway! I know you guys must get some crazy user problems all the time, so I won't take it personally 😀

Note to myself : must find the time to add my "nearly 100 favorite DOS games successfully played in Dosbox list" to the DOSBOX 0.70 compatibility list...

I'll think of it as a way of saying THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing an outstanding job with keeping DOS alive!

Note to myself : must find the time to add my "nearly 100 favorite DOS games successfully played in Dosbox list" to the DOSBOX 0.70 compatibility list...

I *think* this would be much appreciated 😀

Just stumbled on this thread while trying out magic carpet 1 and 2 (on real hardware). The games look really fun but the controls are horrendous. If anyone knows how to hack the game to invert the Y axis so that the game will control like Descent or a first person shooter with mouselook, I'll owe them a beer. The inverted controls are impossible for me (and others) to get used to after 30+ years of playing games. I spent the better part of an hour trying to adapt to it. The inverted Y axis combined with the exaggerated mouse acceleration and sliding make the game very hard to control.

I'm pretty sure I found somewhere a version of ctmouse.exe with y axis inversion.

Oh, here it is:
Mouse Y-axis reverse?