Back in 2001 or whenever, I only had a two-button mouse. But it would be great if I could use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

Off topic - I am absolutely delighted with this exceptional port of this classic game to windows 8. I still have the original cd, but I couldn't get it working. Purchasing the gog version has allowed me to play it more smoothly and with greater stability than ever before.

No...not that I ever found, anyway.

thanks dude

There might be a way to map the mouse wheel to Ctrl+Up/Down using a third party program?

Yes, GlovePIE would be able to do that. You'd map the mouse scrollwheel up and down to two keyboard keys with it.

It works!

Use this script :
Key.Ctrl + Keyboard.Up = Mouse.WheelUp
Key.Ctrl + Keyboard.Down = Mouse.WheelDown
Key.Ctrl + Keyboard.Left = Mouse.WheelLeft
Key.Ctrl + Keyboard.Right = Mouse.WheelRight

Wow, thanks, this is a brilliant program, I'm going to be using it for many many things!

Pretty good isn't it? I've used it for Star Wars Dark Forces (which is where I learned about it) to enable mouse look - I got the info from a Steam forum guide - and more recently I used it with Freespace to enable the two buttons on the side of my mouse as they aren't picked up by the game itself.

This is great! And should be stickied! :)

(Or even integrated ...)

It would be even better if PPJoy could get their drivers signed as then they'll be able to run on Windows 64 bit without having to enable test driver mode or anything, so that you can map functions to joystick output controls. Emulate a joystick using a gamepad or mouse or keyboard. Last I heard, they were still looking into getting them signed, but had to cover the costs of doing so.

I have been using a great free program for some time now that allows me to do all sorts of things in games with my mouse called "X-Mouse Button Control" It works especially well for older games that may or may not support things like Mouse Wheels or Middle and Side Mouse buttons

Off the top of me head, I currently have Dungeon Keeper set up to use mouse wheel up as zoom in, mouse wheel down as zoom out, my 2 additional side buttons as rotate left and rotate right. In The Witcher, I have it set up so that when I mouse wheel up or down it switches my fighting style and my top side button pauses and my bottom side button opens and closes my inventory.

One of the great things about this software is that it auto detects when you launch a game that you have a profile set up for and loads it automatically. It will also allow you to configure things like when the commands are sent such as "During button press" or "Upon button release".

You can also do some very advanced configurations thanks to the layer system. For example, You could have a button be a different key each time you press it. This is what I did for The Witcher combat style switch via wheel config.

If you decide to give this software a try, I hope you find it as useful as I have.

Can someone explain to me how to do this? Really detailed, like is you had to show your granny how to do it. I don't know if it's not working because I'm doing it wrong or if it just isn't working.

Download GlovePIE from here: http://glovepie.org/GlovePIE045Free.zip

Extract it to your desired location (e.g. C:\Applications\GlovePIE\)

Run the PIEFree.exe. The main GlovePIE window appears and shows a text area for your script.

Copy BlueTemplars script and paste it into the script area of the GlovePIE window.

Click the Run button at the top right of the GlovePIE window.

Start the game. The mousewheel will now activate the zoom in/out functions.

Once you've finished playing, quit the game and click the Stop button on the GlovePIE window, then close GlovePIE.

Optionally, you can choose to save the script for future use so that you don't have to keep finding it and copying and pasting.

Thank you so much! It worked like a charm =)

Just goes to show that even though my dad was a big kid with big toys - aka a computer back around 1990 - there's still stuff I can't do! *LoL*