– Mouse Mode switches between relative and absolute mouse. It’s needed quite frequently, so it doesn’t hurt to have it twice. This saves you some tedious tapping, and it’s pretty cool that you can do such things with Magic Dosbox.? So when you tap “Unit Control 1” once more to close it, the widgets of “Unit Control 2” will already be hidden, too. This will close all widgets related to “Unit Control 2”. Example: you tap “Unit Control 2”, assign a number to a group (Ctrl+1), then tap “Unit Control 1”. – Each menu button also closes its neighbour’s widgets, to prevent overlapping. Each opens (and closes again) a set of 8-9 single widgets.
– The four ingame menu buttons (Unit Control 1 & 2, Game Menu, Cycle Buildings) are Deadly Strike widgets. It’s very good, but I felt it was more convenient to insert all that text on a real computer in Photoshop.? – The widgets are not labelled with Magic Dosbox’s label function. Most of them are hidden automatically a second after the profile is stared (that’s the magic of the Deadly Strike widget…)? – There are *lots* of widgets in this layout (47, if I counted correctly). You can still use the normal Telescope widget instead, if you like. If you don’t like it, simply uncheck double tap zoom in “Gestures” options. On the Windows 95/98 desktop, it’s a bit tedious to start the game (right click the icon instead of double tapping, then click “Open”), but I think the benefit of the double-tap-to-zoom is worth it. – Therefore, only two point tap is used for right click. This is working so well, it’s utterly amazing!? This one is simply brilliant! Double tap anywhere to zoom the screen in by 50%, do what you have to do, then double tap again to zoom out again. – Double tap is mapped to the new Telescope (zoom) function.
– Swipe left/right to trigger Mouse Reset, swipe up/down to hide/show the UI. Trust me, it’ll save you hours of trouble.? Then, and only then, try to set things up.
If you’ve never used Win9x in Dosbox, head over to this site first, and read the guide.
– You’ll need your own Win9x installation, and AoE iso files.