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What's the best control setup for a laptop to play Duke Nukem 3D on?
I find that it's quite hard to play it on the laptop compared to PC or Xbox 360.
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If you plug in an external mouse, it should be fairly easy. Otherwise your left looking around with the keyboard.

Personally, for all FPS games I use

E = Forward
D = Back
S = Strafe Left
F = Strafe Right

Right Mouse Button = Jump
Left Mouse Button = Shoot
Middle Mouse Button = Alt Fire or Melee
Space Bar = Duck
A = Run

Then I fill in any extra functions with surrounding keys (like using C to turn on the flashlight if that option is in a game).

If you don't have an extra mouse, you could probably look around with the keyboard like this:

J = Look Left
L = Look Right
I = Look Up
K = Look Down (or switch I and K if you like the look up/down inverted)

Then use the space bar as fire and assign something else to duck.
I should clarify, I play Duke 3d with the Eduke32 Source Port. It makes it look and control so much better.
Post edited December 30, 2012 by hudfreegamer
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hudfreegamer: If you plug in an external mouse, it should be fairly easy. Otherwise your left looking around with the keyboard.

Personally, for all FPS games I use

E = Forward
D = Back
S = Strafe Left
F = Strafe Right

Right Mouse Button = Jump
Left Mouse Button = Shoot
Middle Mouse Button = Alt Fire or Melee
Space Bar = Duck
A = Run

Then I fill in any extra functions with surrounding keys (like using C to turn on the flashlight if that option is in a game).

If you don't have an extra mouse, you could probably look around with the keyboard like this:

J = Look Left
L = Look Right
I = Look Up
K = Look Down (or switch I and K if you like the look up/down inverted)

Then use the space bar as fire and assign something else to duck.
I should clarify, I play Duke 3d with the Eduke32 Source Port. It makes it look and control so much better.
Since I don't really have a good surface to use a mouse on I'm trying to play with just the keyboard.

I use the Eduke32 port too, will try the J, L, I, K setup you mentioned sometime. Thanks.
I don't actually use a mouse. I use a thumb controlled trackball (Logitech Trackman). It works well for tight areas where you can't move a mouse around. You can even put it in front of the keyboard / notebook if you want to.
This is my keyboard only setup:
W: Forward
A: Strafe Left
S: backward
D: Strafe Right

O: Fire
K: Turn Left
L: Strafe On (your probably won't use this)
; (semi-colen): Turn Right.

I: Kick
P: Turn 180
Numpad1: Look Up
Numpad0: Look Down (Don't use these much, as in Vanilla Duke3d, aiming is just like Doom for the most part)

Q: Inventory left
E: Inventory Right
R: Use Inventory
F: Use/open
SPACE-BAR: Jump
C: Crouch
Z: Talk
Y: Center Aim

1-7: Weapons 1-7
X: Weapon 8
V: Weapon 9
G: Weapon 10

AUTO-RUN always on.

I recommend you use the above but change
L: Strafe On
P: Turn 180
Numpad1: Look Up
Numpad0: Look Down

to
L: Turn 180
P: Look Up
' (quote): Look Down
My config:
Move forward: W
Strafe left: A
Strafe right: D
Move backward: S

Open: E
Run: LShift
Jump: Space
Crouch: LCtrl
Jetpack: J and LAlt (jump & crouch for altitude)

Inventory: Enter
Inventory left: Z
Inventory right: C

Kick: Q (must be ready to kick the crap out of everyone always!)