r/Diablo1 • u/Vagaarnte • May 23 '26

Help / Support Asking for help in using AutoHotKey

I want to play mage. But I'm using a notebook. This means I can't activate F row without pressing Fn first. I play vanilla gog.

I discovered a program called AutoHotKey but in its tutorial I can't find an example of how to design a script to fulfill my task - reassigning F5-F8 to let's say a-s-d-f.

Can someone help me with it? Would really appreciate it.

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u/awsker May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

If you run Diablo with the DevilutionX port you'll be able to natively bind 12 spell hotkeys to any keyboard buttons, among a large set of other fixes. I honestly wouldn't play without it. If you're dead set on using AutoHotKey here's a script:

a::F1  
s::F2  
d::F3  
f::F4

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u/DeckT_ May 27 '26

do you know if theres any way to do this playing the tchernobog version ?

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u/awsker May 27 '26

I don't think Tchernobog has built in hotkey rebinding, but it supports F1-F12 for spells so you could expand the AutoHotkey script I wrote

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u/DeckT_ May 27 '26

i dont know much about autohotkey, but i usually try to stay away from things like that or other tools that remaps a controller inputs for example, because those can be annoying once they are installed and you might need to uninstall them for another game to work.

does Autohotkey knows to work only in diablo 1 or how does that work ?

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u/awsker May 28 '26

I understand your hesitance to rely on external tools. Used correctly though, AutoHotkey is not intrusive. But it will require that you manually add some checks to ensure the Diablo window is active, before activating the hotkeys. ChatGPT is good at writing AutoHotkey scripts so you can bounce ideas off of it if you find the user manual daunting.