MaxALERT Rewritten

MaxALERT Rewritten

MaxALERT Rewritten running on Windows XP.
Name	MaxALERT Rewritten
Developer(s)	Konnor88
Initial release	August 7th, 2023 (2 years ago)
Latest version	1.1.139.153
Latest version release date	August 10th, 2025 (3 months ago)
Written in	VB.NET
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
License	Mozilla Public License 2.0 (1.00 and 1.10 only)
Website	http://www.tmafe.com/maxalert
Source code	https://github.com/Konnor88/MaxALERT-Rewritten/

MaxALERT Rewritten is a freeware desktop application that utilizes Microsoft Agent technology developed in 2023. It was created by Konnor88 and released on TMAFE.COM on August 7th, 2023. The program is a re-imagination of the original MaxALERT program by Bonzi Software as the original is lost with no screenshots available.

Development

Following the success of BlobBUDDY, the developer turned to making a new Microsoft Agent application. Many people in the community wanted to see a re-creation of the MaxALERT program, with one user in particular, CosmicToons, assisting in designing of assets and the majority of the voice lines. With CosmicToons' help, a MaxALERT Rewritten Beta became available on June 16th, 2023. Following a long development period, the first complete version, 1.00, was released on August 7th, 2023.

On September 5th, 2024, MaxALERT Rewritten became open-source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Future releases of MaxALERT Rewritten are expected to remain proprietary.

Gallery

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  A screenshot of https://tmafe.com/maxalert.
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  A screenshot of Max on top of the MaxALERT Rewritten in Windows XP.
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  MaxALERT Rewritten's abilities, a parody of the abilities listed on the original BonziBUDDY website.
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  MaxALERT Rewritten's Computer theme.
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  MaxALERT Rewritten promotional logo seen in the 1.00 About window.
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  MaxALERT Rewritten 1.00 about window.

Trivia

• MaxALERT is based off of BlobBUDDY build 139, which is why the build string in MaxALERT Rewritten is 1.0.139.x.
• CosmicToons designed most of the program's UI and provided the majority of the dialog.
• MaxALERT Rewritten, Anti-Grabify, and TenStartMenu Fixer are the only open source programs developed by TMAFE.
  • The Mozilla Public License 2.0 used by MaxALERT Rewritten allows people to learn from the code and use the code themselves, but credit must be attributed to the original developer.
• MaxALERT Rewritten is able to launch the user's anti-virus through the "Launch Anti-Virus" feature upon selecting the user selecting their anti-virus directory.
• In older versions of MaxALERT Rewritten, it had a button that said "Scan for Viruses". However, the button was not functional due to the feature not being implemented yet.
  • This button would soon be replace with the "Launch Anti-Virus" as it would have been hard for Konnor88 to implement an anti-virus in the program.