Gury Posted January 6, 2021 Author Share Posted January 6, 2021 Oh, I see, that would mean special Philsan version Ok, that means the new format would have to be more flexible. For example, if you set 51 pixels for height, then data will be saved for 51-pixel height frames or any number you set. Apl format already includes a flag to determine frame height, naturally this flag will be supported in new format. Atari Player Editor files will be used as usual, but for you this means you will have to save in new format and then renaming resulting apm file to apl file. Is it ok? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 I have some .apl files. Every file has various frames with two overlapping players (therefore there is a third ORed color). Some files are 48 pixels high, others are 51 pixel high. At the moment I would need to import the .apl files in Mad Studio, modify them and save them in any format. I will send you two files so you con test them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarilux Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 I experimented with this for a while today and it looks like a really nice way to make software development of the A8 much easier. However, just one issue I received a whole range of "infected" software alerts on Bitdefender. They appeared in relation to several files in Madstudio, also to the recent download of the Windows cross compiler for Fastbasic. Has anyone else had similar problems? I had downloaded the binary files for Mad today from Github. "Feature: Antivirus Bitdefender moved a threat to quarantine. File name: C:\Users\xyz\Documents\ataridevtools\madstudio\bin\mp\mads.exe. It is recommended that you run a System Scan to make sure your system is clean." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 These tools are definitely 100% free of virus infections. Such problems usually appear for such binaries, assembled from scratch in development tools, such as Free Pascal, Visual Studio, Lazarus, etc. I suppose Anti-virus software file checkers do not include automatic ignore-list for such circumstances. I have the same problem with Avast software, which checks new compiled binaries every time. Also, it sometimes conclude that Mads and Free Pascal are suspicious. The information is sent to their servers and after some time (2 hours or 2 days) they conclude the files are ok. Thank you for that. Really annoying stuff, they make development harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pajero_pn Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Problem, PMG multi-color & Hide grid. See video MadStudio PMG multi .avi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarilux Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 44 minutes ago, Gury said: These tools are definitely 100% free of virus infections. Such problems usually appear for such binaries, assembled from scratch in development tools, such as Free Pascal, Visual Studio, Lazarus, etc. I suppose Anti-virus software file checkers do not include automatic ignore-list for such circumstances. I have the same problem with Avast software, which checks new compiled binaries every time. Also, it sometimes conclude that Mads and Free Pascal are suspicious. The information is sent to their servers and after some time (2 hours or 2 days) they conclude the files are ok. Thank you for that. Really annoying stuff, they make development harder. Thanks for your reply. Even more weird, I installed it on two machines. THe problem only arose on one machine. Both have the same anti-virus set-ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 2 hours ago, pajero_pn said: Problem, PMG multi-color & Hide grid. See video MadStudio PMG multi .avi Good find. I will look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 Fixed! New version also brings support for new version of KickC language with a fix for compilation of source code files on any given directory, not just relative one. This is the first version of Mad Studio compiled with Lazarus using Free Pascal 3.2.0 madstudio_1_2_3_x64.zip 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pajero_pn Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Ok, works, dziękuję (thanks) dajesz świetne narzędzie (you are giving a great tool) but ctrl+C as clear player, seriously ? What is this: View / Multi-Player editor values? Can GTIA priority be added? gtictl (gtiactl) = $D01B Altirra Hardware Reference Manual 2018.08.12.pdf: Playfield/object priority The GTIA uses a priority scheme to determine which objects to display when multiple objects overlap. Bits 0-3 of PRIOR control the relative priority between player/missiles and the playfields. PRIOR[3:0] 1000 0100 0010 0001 and 0000 Greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 That's why it's good to have you and others to give me suggestions and ideas for improvements. I can change this and other shortcut key combinations, just make a list which should be changed and we will make a decision together for more logical combinations. Multi-color player editor values option was left off by some previous release, which showed byte values for each line of the players in dec and hex notation. As editor grew, less space was available for immediate value information, so I removed this feature and obviously forgot about menu option. Maybe I will add this feature as modal info window. GTIA priority can be manipulated in source code generator, but this features will be expanded with more listing examples. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Hi, I decided to abandon Atari version of Mad Studio, because all of my interest is now focused to ZX Spectrum. Mad Studio will be developed with this computer and its features in mind. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 47 minutes ago, Gury said: Hi, I decided to abandon Atari version of Mad Studio, because all of my interest is now focused to ZX Spectrum. Mad Studio will be developed with this computer and its features in mind. Bad news indeed, hope you have fun on the Spectrum and don't fall victim to any color clash induced eye disease. Let's hope the first thing for you to do in April is to make the existing code available to someone who might carry on with development. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 16 minutes ago, slx said: Bad news indeed, hope you have fun on the Spectrum and don't fall victim to any color clash induced eye disease. Let's hope the first thing for you to do in April is to make the existing code available to someone who might carry on with development. @slxLook what date we have @Gurynice, made me smile a bit?... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Hehe, good catch, pps ? Sorry, slx, for upseting you and for a bad joke ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 7 minutes ago, Gury said: Sorry, slx, for upseting you and for a bad joke ? No worries, I did look at the date but didn‘t want to call it outright to let others enjoy it. So I just wrote ‚the first thing ... in April‘ as a hint. Thanks for Mad Studio and looking forward to more Atari goodness from you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 New version: 1.2.4 Antic mode 4 tile editor There is still so much to do... Greetings! 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) Cool idea to add a tile editor Would have made it a lot easier for games as my 'go lucky' (or the upcoming 'run fast' I coded for @Sikor for 16k machines). Recently I used your tool for creating some multicolor pm for a small intro. Worked fine for me ? Edited April 24, 2021 by pps typos typos typos ;( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 That's nice to hear the program was of some use for you! That's the whole point of making some tasks easier. Good work with your productions, I notice them time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebottle Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 10 hours ago, Gury said: New version: 1.2.4 I figure this a long shot... but any chance for a 32-bit version... that works with Windows XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rra Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 My brother and I have been using Mad Studio for Antic modes 4-5 characters and writing out .byte data from imported character sets for our upcoming Anschuetz/Weisgerber/Anschuetz assembly games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 5 hours ago, rra said: My brother and I have been using Mad Studio for Antic modes 4-5 characters and writing out .byte data from imported character sets for our upcoming Anschuetz/Weisgerber/Anschuetz assembly games. ? I am excited to see your games published. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 6 hours ago, firebottle said: I figure this a long shot... but any chance for a 32-bit version... that works with Windows XP? Here is 32-bit version, compiled on 64-bit machine. Your help would be greatly appreciated to test this version on real 32-bit platform. madstudio.exe 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pps Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 47 minutes ago, Gury said: Here is 32-bit version, compiled on 64-bit machine. Your help would be greatly appreciated to test this version on real 32-bit platform. madstudio.exe 6.15 MB · 1 download Cool, so I can run it on my Surface Pro X, too 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 Please let me know if this version works on your setup. This way I can be sure to update GitHub also with this binary version. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebottle Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 5 hours ago, Gury said: Here is 32-bit version, compiled on 64-bit machine. Your help would be greatly appreciated to test this version on real 32-bit platform. madstudio.exe 6.15 MB · 3 downloads It works! Thank you! If anything's amiss, I'll let you know... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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