Mad Studio

[Gury]

Great! Additional 32-bit version is now available on GitHub.

 

[michomis]

Big thanks to author of Madstudio @Gury

I have made whole graphics and sprites with this great tool in my latest game Moon Quest.

Keep in mind I am no pixel artist, therefore I've used mode 5. I could also fit many (over 40) pictures with code for the game on one disk, without compression.

 

[Gury]

Thank you, Michomis. I am glad you make use of this tool. I will update it with new features when possible.

 

Interesting text/illustrative game you made 👍

Congratulations to you and others in ABBUC competition.

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Gury

[Gury]

New version (1.2.5 - Windows 64-bit binary)

 

I forgot to publish it some time ago, but I decided to do so now, including bug fix for an issue found by skr (inverse space characters did not display properly when loading a screen file in Text mode 0 editor).

New version also brings support for new versions of Mad Pascal 1.6.6 and FastBasic 4.6 with new directory reorganization.

 

 

The Viewer can now display multi-color players and missiles (Mad Studio format). 

 

 

This version will be put on GitHub later.

 

madstudio-1_2_5_x64.zip

 

Some highlights of this release update:

 

The Viewer
  - Support for viewing multi-color players
  - Support for viewing missiles
  - Show main program menu by pressing F12 key

Antic mode 4 tile editor
  - Resize all tiles
  - Proper horizontal flip operation (proper colors on both sides)
  - New operations: Copy selected tile character, Paste tile character
  - Proper message when clicking arrow toolbar button (Select tile region)
  - Show main program menu by pressing F12 key

Player/missile graphics editor
  - Changed the look and layout of the button for player resolution (also in code generator)
  - Fixed drawing boundary checking
  - Code generator:
     - FastBasic: Clear P/M graphics after exiting an example
     - Atari BASIC: Faster clearing of P/M area before setting up data

Antic mode 4 and 5 editor
  - Apply text on speedbutton
  - Proper dimension x value display after loading new screen
  - Clear character editor data after selecting default character set
  - Code generator:
    - [Fixed]Fixed line ending for example 4

Text mode 0 editor
  - Apply text on speedbutton
  - Automatically selected "!" character as the first character to draw on screen
  - Selected character information
  - [Fixed]Proper showing of inverse space character on load operation (error found by skr)
  - [Fixed]Screen cleared with space character (not inverse character) for options New screen and Clear screen
  - Code generator:
     - Changed and resorted names of listing examples

Text mode 1 & 2 editor
  - Automatically selected "!" character as the first character to draw on screen
  - Selected character information panel is the same as in other modules
  - Code generator:
     - [Fixed]Atari BASIC - Fixed listing for displaying a screen with character codes

Player Animator/editor
  - Loading/Saving animation dialog box: added material-design buttons like in other modules
  - Module minimize and system button enabled
  - Module not resizable anymore
  - Option button color changes
  - Code generator:
     - Atari BASIC: Faster clearing of P/M area before setting up animation frame data

Antic mode 3 editor
  - Automatically selected "!" character as the first character to draw on screen
  - Selected character information panel is the same as in other modules
  - [Fixed]Proper showing of inverse space character on load operation (error found by skr in Text mode 0 editor)

Code generators (general changes):
  - New list box (paper-looking) control for example list in all generators
  - Mad Studio label remark in runnable examples
  - Generic code for optional loading of character set file and displaying the screen
  - Automatic detection of supported/accessible languages for selected example
  - Atari BASIC examples:
     - generic code for very fast loading of screen
     - generic code for very fast loading of character set
  - Mad Pascal examples:
     - new way of loading data with the use of CIO unit
     - fixed setting of new character set pointer

Source editor
  - Support for:
     - FastBasic 4.6 (several options for compiling to binary, including cartridge and Atari 5200 system version)
     - Mad Pascal 1.6.6
     - Effectus 0.5.5
  - Changed directory structure adjusting to new versions of these languages
  - Changed layout of on-screen objects for checking programming language options
  - Effectus/Action compile feature is currently unavailable

Misc
  - Main menu window "wait" cursor indicator when selecting any module
  - Indicator for data changes in any module editor ('*' character at the end of specified file)
  - UpDown edit control replaced with standard one for better compatibility across different platforms and smaller code size
  - [Fixed]Configuration file: proper handling of options for Mad Pascal using Mads (new tag in configuration file - MadsMadPascal)
  - Program compiled with Lazarus 2.2.4
 

Edited February 18, 2023 by Gury

[TGB1718]

@Gury I've just come across this fine utility, it certainly has some nice tools 👍🏾 thanks for your hard work,

One thing, could I ask for more support for MADS, It's in the compiler options, but not in the export

tools for the other utilities, closest I could see was export TBXL and then modify.

 

Is there a way to change the compiled object file extension, had a look, but couldn't find anything.

 

Thanks

[Gury]

Hi, TGB1718! I am aware currently there is little support for MADS. My plan is to add MADS listings when I get more time. Everybody is welcome to help with this, so in time example listings and exports will be more complete.

Just post working MADS example listings here, I will integrate them in appropriate module.

 

[TGB1718]

thanks @Gury I'll have a look at all of the output listings and format them for MADS,

will get back to you here when done

[Gury]

Excellent!

No hurry, thou!