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Great job and great tool to start creating video games. 

Thank you for your effort.

8 bits forever...!!!

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Hi Jon, is there any way we can use 32x32 or 16X32 sprites in MPAGD?

There is a version of AGD called maxi where this is possible?

Thank You for all your work in the speccy sceen!

AGD supports 16x16 or 16x24 sprites.  For anything else you'll need to use more than one sprite whether in AGD or MPAGD

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The best

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Does this have support for Texas Instruments TI-99 4A?

Not at present although it would be perfectly suited to that machine.  We'd need a volunteer to convert the compiler (relatively straightforward) and engine (requiring a TI-99/4A expert).  I'm always happy to help if anyone wishes to step forward.

nice tool jonathan , wild castle have a new version

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Thank you for your work! I tried to use it on MacOs (with Wine Emulator for windows) but crash it when I export the game or file; Do You have planned to develop this on MacOs??

Regards!! 

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No plans at present.  Unfortunately it has to use a lot of Windows system calls

Thanks!!!! And again, great work!!!!

Are you going to add another import Sprite option?  Using the no longer updated and more concerningly prohibitive access to SevenuP utility is the only current option other than drawing each sprite (again) . Cheers.

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A while ago I was thinking about adding an import/export option via a SCREEN$ file if that would be useful?

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That would be very useful, yes! :)

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It would be EXTREMELY Useful

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Cool. Are C64, Atari 8-bit, and Apple II possible in the future?

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Yes, if we can find experts on their machine who are willing to convert the engine and compiler.  Help and advice is not far away, the engine is fully annotated and the compiler is written in C so only requires a few simple changes.

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Very well done!

Is there a list of games made with AGD?

Not aware of one, there are too many.  Probably around 300 games authored with the various versions but I lost track a long time ago

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Hi there, does this work on any version of Windows or does it need a specific version? Thanks. 

No specific version in mind; just download it, make sure you don't have spaces in the path and you should be good to go

Hi Jonathan,

Any plans to do a ZX Spectrum Next version in the future?

I have a Next engine and compiler but it's based on the TC2048 versions.  Hoping to add Next sprites at the very least before releasing it and maybe adding more functionality later.  Until then you could use the 8x1 attribute mode of the Timex to create more colourful games for the Next and other machines that support that mode

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Wonderful news Jonathan!! Might be worth letting Chris Wilkins know - Or in fact I could for an up-and-coming Crash whether be it the new bi-monthly magazine or the Annual!  Thank you!

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For anyone new to the wonders of MPAGD, I've been writing a Beginners Guide Blog as well as some more advanced tutorials here:

MPAGD Beginners Guide

MPAGD Advanced Tutorials

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These are excellent tutorials!

cool. I'm interested in learning coding for spectrum. Would u consider doing like a game that teaches spectrum  coding in a fun environment. I have just bought the platform game designer and the space version enjoying it too. 

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Is there a way to get the homebrew made with this onto real tape to run on real hardware?

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I tried this in Wine (an app that lets Mac and Linux users run Windows apps without Windows installed) and it seemed to work but crashed on building the test project


I’d love to be able to use this. Want me to be your Wine tester? I’ll help you find the incompatibilities

The build process uses a batch file in the relevant subdirectory, eg Suite ZX.  There's a build.bat file with a load of DOS commands to build and run the game in an emulator so by playing with that you could see how far it gets before it crashes

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Thanks a bunch for this! Hoping for C64 in the future?

that would be amazing

this looks so cool. I’m gonna see about making a game in this application 

Sorry to bother you with requests but an easy way to import some format of AY music would be a godsend if possible?  (the asm way of doing it is too hard for some of us)

There's a tool to do it for you, it's called MPAGD Musicizer.  I don't have a link but do a quick web search for it

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It's difficult to say.  We need an experienced C64 developer to convert the engine and compiler from an existing 6502 machine

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Hello, great job!
I have a small error, I am doing a test and when loading the TAP in the emulator, the screen goes black. I have not found anything in the forums.

If you post on the forums and describe the problem in more detail maybe someone will have encountered the problem before.  The first thing you should probably check is that you haven't included any spaces in the path.  But this isn't really the place for this discussion  :)

Does this program also support blueMSX? If so, is there a way to set it up as a emulator for MSX projects?

The build process for each machine is configurable, you simply need to edit a batch file to fire up a specific emulator

How do it edit the batch file?
Do I simply replace "openMSX" with the other one (like for example "blueMSX")?

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interesting , anyone can make a zx spectrum version for my game?

Anyone can use this tool, it's simple and flexible

Made some tests for output on the COCO. Used mono for I have been working artifact colors for quite a while, it works just perfect. Well done!
If you happen to have the AGD boot screen in full color, send it to me I will artifact it. I will be looking deeper into the system. Thank you and congratulations. Check my games and let me know if you want any of them, I will send a key to you.

very good

Thank you for this!

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Thank you and all colaborators for making MPAGD. Finaly I find time to start making something on it, and I'm lonving: https://twitter.com/amaweks/status/1317628530667233280

Thank you, thank you, very thank you.

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Jonathon Cauldwell you are awesome. I owned my first speccy in 1986 at 4 years old and ever since then wanted to program games for it but never gotten around to it... Until 2 months ago when I found a copy of your amazing book how to write Z spectrum games v1.1. this taught me enough to really get started, but now I find this incredible looking software which I will start using and enjoying immediately. Thanks so much

Just wanted to say 'thank you' again for this awesome software!

THANK YOU!

:D

*sheepyhugs*

so im having a bit of a problem here. when i got to export the game i click yes to the boxes. and then in the console window, it just says that there where a bunch of error and i cant export it into a bin file there either. so i cant play it in fuse..

ps: i followed the tutorial btw...

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It won't export if there are errors in compilation.  Take a look on the AGD forums and see if the errors you're getting have been reported before, it's probably something simple.  If not, create a new post and we'll try to help

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I'm wondering how its going with the C64 version? I just love this program/tool. :D

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i'm trying to run it on Wine as well (GNU/Linux operating system, Ubuntu distribution) - the editor window appears blank - are there any plans to have it native on GNU/Linux, OSX, and other operating systems? or is anyone here skilled enough for helping us on that?

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The editor program uses a lot of Windows functions so would need separate include files for Windows and Linux, it's currently just one solid block of twenty-odd thousand lines of C (yes, I know...)  The compilers don't use any Windows calls if I remember correctly so they should be straightforward enough.  The other thing is that the project is ongoing so we'd need someone to commit to the project to convert any future Windows calls that are included.  As ever, I'm always happy to co-operate if someone wants to help

Any chance to provide a 64bit version. I am trying to run it on Mac (via Wine) and for Catalina only wine64 will work. Thanks!

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"Mac" you mean MacOS-X (or OSX), isn't it?

Yes, MacOS.

I'll do a 64-bit build soon, probably for the next release

Hi am I doing something wrong as followed tutorial one and got this. It loads speech 4.8 not fuse so not sure help needed please 

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Since the tutorials were made I've added Kees van Oss' build suites so you're probably better pressing F5 to test rather than following the videos to the letter.  The tool should build and run your game automatically now so try that and see if that works

Hi Jonathan,


Fantastic piece of software and an even better tutorial.  However, I seem to be having the same issue, where, after building the project I encounter the emulator starting up and then simply resetting.  Do you think you could reply with simple, bullet-point steps for the exporting process, please?

many thanks,

Marc

Try downloading version 0.7.8 and see if that fixes the problem.  If the emulator is still coming up and then exiting then there might be a problem with that emulator.  However, I've just added an option to export .tap files so you should at least be able to select File->Export game to create a file that should run on another emulator

Hi Jonathan,

It's me, the guy from Facebook who commented on your post yesterday.  I haven't got around to testing the new version yet, but should do within the next few days.  I'll let you know the outcome.

Many thanks,

Marc

Hello Jonathan, first of all, thank you for this amazing project, is a very useful tool for people to make their own games. I would like to ask you, can I make the sprites or 32y x 16x  size? thank you.

Hi Toniman, thanks for your comment.  You can use 2 16x16 sprites together to make a 16x32 sprite.  There is a way of doing this without tearing that I won't go into here but I think it was discussed over at the forums.  If you can't find the topic, just start a new one

IT IS A GREAT TOOL! Is there any possibility that in the future the tool can export the games to the micro msx?

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I'm not sure what the Micro MSX is but if someone wants to create a compiler and engine for any new format I'll incorporate them into the tool.

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I've been working on a Game Library for a set of computers made by VTech. I wonder if the MP Arcade Game Maker could be coded to work with these platforms? They are Z80.
Website: https://bluebilby.com/foxglovz/

I don't see why not.  If you or someone else wants to take a look at the Spectrum engine and compiler, (the source for which is included in the download), I'd be happy to put some Windows editors together and output the data in a form your compiler would need.  Essentially it would be a case of making a few changes to the compiler (CompilerZX.c) and engine (EngineZX.asm), modding the input and output routines to work with the VTech.  So long as you are happy to write the code to write blocks and characters to the screen, move sprites, read the keyboard etc. it should be straightforward enough.  The only other thing you might want to consider is making some parts of the engine conditional in order to save memory.

I'm happy to do work on it. There are some weird caveats with this platform so I'm not sure it'll be doable. No sprites and no Collison registers, for example.

I've documented some of it here: https://jasonoakley.com/foxglovz-dev/foxglovz-dev-diary-part-1/

Please let me know if that will prevent it being used with your engine.

Oh! On the Facebook group Kees says "The CCE-MC1000 has a Z80 and a 6847 so I think this is a good start."

Same specs.

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There are no hardware sprites on the Spectrum either, the engine XORs sprites and objects on to the screen, then XORs them again to remove them.  It does the same for the PLOT command so you might need to re-think these routines.  All collisions are coordinate based so it should just be a case of modding the collision routines to work with half the resolution.  Spectrum sprites are moved 2 pixels at a time horizontally so there are 4 pre-shifted copies of each frame on that format, you'd have to figure out what would work best for VTech.  Objects aren't animated so those are shifted into position at run-time on the Spectrum.

The speaker looks very familiar so no worries there.  :)

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Hello Jonathan,

I want to program games for the huge and growing Commodore 64 fan community, but assembler is to hard for me.  Im searching for a C64 game maker and so i´m here.

Your tool looks great, do you have plans for the Commodore 64 to?

Best regards from Austria.

gunnas

Yes, hopefully.  I'm looking for someone to convert the engine and compiler to the C64.  I can write the Windows graphics editors and output the data given the specifications.  We already have compilers and engines for 6502 machines so hopefully someone will step forward.  There is a thread over at Lemon 64 if you would like to post there and let the C64 community know how much you would like to see this happen.

Jonathan, 

Maybe you should inform crew at Mega65 about this exciting project. It seems that people are pretty much active there (and in search for software tools for that platform).
Mega65 should be released this year iirc, and it should be downward compatible to C64. Think about it like Spectrum Next vs classic Speccy.
Links: Mega65.org , forum (games & apps subsection
Thank you for your efforts.

Best regards

Dear Jonathan... great tool.

I'd like to know if in the screen design it is possible to shift the blocks up, down, left, right instead of redesign all the screen.

Furthermore I'd like to know if it is possible to maintain the majority of the blocks of the screens designed once I decide to change the screen dimensions.

That would save a lot of time.

Thanks.

Leonardo

You mean allow the user to scroll the screen around in the designer with the cursors, like in the sprite designer?  I hadn't thought of that but yes it's a good idea.  I'll have to change the keys around as the cursors are currently used for something else.  Your second request was requested by someone a while back and is already on my to-do list.  It's actually a lot of work to do though so I've been delaying it.  :)

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