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Hello, the name's Alex. Y'all probably know and/or hate me by now, but in the case you don't, I create Microsoft Agent content. What a surprise. Well, I create more than just Agent videos and characters, but I digress. Why else would you even be here anyways? To ask about Trilogy? C'mon, man. Be more classy.
This was originally a much blanker page. I would've revised it later on, however someone with way too much free time on their hands came around and revised it themselves. Good for them!
If you want to download all of my Agent characters you can do so via my own personal website. Self-hosting is the future, yo.
https://alexparr.net/msagent
Dumb Facts
- Some of my modern Agent characters are among the first to use custom color palettes.
- Any of my Agent characters from early-to-mid-2017 (so Alex V1 and V2, Mac V1, Emo, etc.) were some of the first, thanks to all of the frames being exported in Paint.NET rather than Microsoft Paint. The way that Paint.NET exported 8-bit bitmap files meant that every frame had to have the same exact colors; so no colors could be added or removed from each individual frame.
- Alex V4.2.2 and Elax V3.0.1 are the first Agents that directly modified the standard MS Paint palette. This was done by using an old version of Paint Shop Pro, which supports editing a 256-color bitmap image's color palette. I would also use this tech to help Kaie release new versions of his Matt and Chloe Agents (before he re-did them entirely.)
- While never shared publicly (with other users figuring it out themselves either shortly afterwards... I think, I can't find much definitive information), I ended up discovering a program that can take any 24-bit bitmap image and convert it to work with a custom 256-color palette back in May 2024. PC Yellow is the first Agent of mine that took advantage of this tech, (with an update that was released somewhere around 2024-25) though I've made a few other Agents that make use of this method; many of which I've yet to release.
- Alex V1.4 is one of the first modern Agents to have lip-sync, after Konnor88 V2 (released a few months prior).
- Despite having lip-sync, it isn't entirely full lip-sync; the Medium and Narrow states re-use animation from the Wide frames.
- PC Yellow was originally created as a guy, however I inadvertently used a female robot voice on them. This caused some confusion on what gender they were, which I had no idea about until around 2021.
- These days, I don't really consider PC Yellow to have any kind of gender.
- My Microsoft Agent videos from 2021 onward are among the very first to be made with more professional video editing software, (in this case, Sony Vegas) to create effects and scenes that wouldn't be possible otherwise with things like Windows Movie Maker or just basic Bandicam.
- Alex Paras (now known as The 25 KAPR-TV) had done professionally-edited Microsoft Agent videos many years before, though it was only after I started doing it myself that other creators started to edit their videos like this as well.
- My alternative to Double Agent, AgentPatch, works by simply patching the original Microsoft Agent server application to run under a hidden Windows NT 4.0 compatibility mode that can't be accessed via normal means.
- As for the installer, it was built using Windows' built-in iexpress tool. After extracting to a temporary directory, it runs a batch script that automatically installs the .sdb file (after uninstalling a previous version, if applicable).
- I've also created a similar patch for the Potato game. series, making it run with very few patches (VirtualizeDesktopPainting and SingleProcAffinity respectively).
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