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MegaZeux

MegaZeux is a game creation system (GCS) created by game developer Alexis Janson in 1994. Originally a DOS program, in 2005 a multi-platform port was released by Exophase. The most recent version of MegaZeux is 2.93b, which was released on September 10th, 2024.

MegaZeux is officially supported on Windows, Linux/BSD, MacOS, as well as the NDS, 3DS, Wii, and PSP consoles. Historical support has also existed for GP2X, Pandora, and AmigaOS 4.

Downloads

Windows releases are packaged with a copy of the game Caverns of Zeux. Older versions are available at DigitalMZX.

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The following platforms have MegaZeux releases available via repository:

Downloads are also available for the following platform(s), but these platform(s) are not regularly updated:

Credits

MegaZeux 2.9x
Alice Rowan	Development/current maintainer
Terryn	Help file; testing
Lancer X	Development; testing
Adrian Siekierka	Development; testing; various ports
Dizzy O'Malley-Morrison	Development; testing; Ubuntu/Debian/Raspbian/Arch packages
Spectere	Development; testing; Xcode and MSVC projects
Alistair Strachan	Development
Others	Various

MegaZeux Credits

Programming and Overall Design by Gilead Kutnick (Exophase), Alistair Strachan (ajs), Alice Rowan (Lachesis) and Lancer-X.

Based off of original program and source code by Alexis Janson.

Help file by Terryn.

Default SMZX palette by Joel Lamontagne (LogiCow).

ccv utility by Lancer-X. png2smzx utility by Alan Williams (Mr_Alert). checkres utility by Josh Matthews (Revvy), ajs and Lachesis.

Port contributors: Adrian Siekierka (asiekierka) [3DS], Mr_Alert [Wii], Kevin Vance [NDS], Simon Parzer [GP2X].

Renderer code contributors: LogiCow, Mr_Alert. Shader code contributors: David Cravens (astral), GreaseMonkey.

Icon by Quantum P.; Extra icons by LogiCow. GDM conversion by ajs and MadBrain. Other past contributors: Spider124, Koji, JZig, Akwende, MenTaLguY.

Special Thanks

Dizzy (Testing, .deb and Arch packages) Spectere (Testing, OS X Builds, MSVC project) Terryn (Testing) mzxgiant (MSVC Testing, Bug Fixes) mzxrules (Testing) Quantum P. (OS X Testing / Builds) Wervyn (Testing)

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Contact

Want to talk about MegaZeux? Encountered a bug or would like a new feature? The MegaZeux community and development team can be contacted through Discord, GitHub, or the DigitalMZX forums.

MegaZeux Discord DigitalMZX forums MegaZeux Bug tracker MegaZeux Feature requests AliceLR on GitHub

Resources

Official MegaZeux game archive MegaZeux help file Development roadmap Compiling MegaZeux on the official Wiki