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'''MegaZeux''' is a [[Game Creation System|GCS]] created by Gregory Janson. It was inspired by ZZT, which Greg and other members of [[Software Visions]] had created several games for beforehand. The first version, [[Changelog for 1.00g|1.00g]], was uploaded to AOL on December 4, 1994.
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==Features==
===Robotic===
''See also: [[Robotic]]''
 
Robotic is MegaZeux's object-oriented programming language. Some parts of the language, as well as the concept itself, are based on [http://www.digitalmzx.net/wiki/index.php/ZZT ZZT's] ZZT-OOP, though Robotic is much more advanced than ZZT-OOP.
 
==History==
History of MZX's development.
===Shareware Versions===
===Spider Versions===
After MegaZeux was released under the terms of the GNU GPL, [[Spider124]] updated the source code with several useful new features and released his own version of MegaZeux, 2.51s1. Among the new features were a vastly expanded counters limit (1000, compared to 2.51's 50 counters), true mouse support, [[playerx and playery|playerx/playery]] counters, and many bug fixes. Three more versions were released (s2, s3, and s3.1; of which 3.1 was a bug fix release) before development of MZX grew stagnant.
 
[[MadBrain]] took the s3.1 source and added one new feature (the [[bi_mesg]] built-in counter) and released his modifications as MZX 2.51s3.2. s3.2 was further modified with the introduction of the [[Super MZX|SMZX]] graphics mode (this version was released as SMZX 100 Alpha).
 
===MZXak===
[[Akwende]] released the first MZXak version, MZXak 1.0, shortly after MadBrain's SMZX alpha version. MZXak featured several additional features (some of which, like the multi-colored configuration dialogs, were determined by the community to be too useless to warrant the memory usage) including file access, robot targeting, and built-in SMZX mode. All MZXak versions included Akwende's MZX version of Tetris, which demonstrated the use of SMZX graphics.
 
MZXak 1.0 was pulled a few months after release from [[DigitalMZX]] due to Akwende's failure to release his source code under the terms of the GNU GPL. He eventually released the source, but not until a lot of public debate and heel-dragging. Other MZXak 1.0 controversy included forward compatibility, which led to MZXak games being playable but not necessarily functioning in MZX2.51s3.1. This broke [[ajs|wizdom's]] judging results in the [[Summer Dualstream Day of Zeux 2001|2001 DsDoZ]].
 
MZXak 2.0 was released after much waiting, though the release sparked a fair bit of dispute due to the sudden timing with [[Koji|Koji's]] 2.60 release. MZXak 2.0 is notable for being the only code fork to completely die out.
 
===Exophase Versions===
Following the discussions about MZXak, Koji released MZX 2.60, featuring some of the same additions as MZXak. 2.61 was released shortly after, and around 2.62's release, [[Exophase]] took over development of MegaZeux. Tons of features were added in between 2.62 and 2.70 (the last version of MegaZeux in [[DOS]]) such as [[Expression|expressions]], [[Sprite|sprites]], [[String|strings]], [[Vlayer|the vlayer]], [[MZM|MZMs]], [[Super MZX|SMZX Mode 2]], and many others.
 
===MZX32===
During Exophase's development of MZX for DOS, [[BFeely]] began development on MZX32, which was to be a full-featured port of MegaZeux for the Windows platform. Several alpha versions were released, most of which lacked the world editor (and all of which lacked the robotic code editor). MZX32 was generally regarded as unstable and buggy, and was deemed obsolete once Exophase began work on his SDL port. The last version of MZX32 released featured support for games created using MZX 2.69c.
 
===SDL Port===
 
[[Exophase]] took most of the summer of 2004 to do a update/rewrite of MegaZeux into SDL, to break some DOS limitations and to solve MegaZeux's ever-increasing compatibility issues (and to eventually expand MegaZeux onto new platforms such as Linux and the Macintosh). This included re-writing the entire Robotic editor. After intense pre-testing, MZX 2.80 was released on Aug 9 2004, with workability only intended for Windows 32 platforms. A slew of bug reports that only arises from public testing shortly followed, and Exophase quickly updated with three incremental versions in one month. Other MegaZeuxers helped in various aspects; for example, the updated sound code was mostly [[ajs|ajs's]] and [[MadBrain|mad's]] doing.
 
Each upgrade added some functionality (e.g. multi-char editor, code search, ogg support), and MegaZeux eventually resolved the various issues that prevented sucessful porting to Linux and Mac platforms.
 
The current version is 2.81f.
 
===LogiCow's MZX Forks.===
[[LogiCow]] did some MegaZeux forks. Older one added the new command, "draw", that allowed to scale characters from vlayer. It also can serve as an underlay. In latest version of that older one, "draw" command was deleted. But there are persons that use the version with draw command, mainly [[Asiekierka]] and [[User:nihilistmatt|NihilistMatt]]...
 
The newer one just resized (to be bigger) and blurred the MZX screen.
 
==External Links==
[https://sourceforge.net/projects/mzx32 MZX32 Project Page (Sourceforge)]
 
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