# RetroForth 2021.7 (In-Progress) Release Notes

## Core Language

## Major Changes

- address 5 is now a pointer to `interpret`
- address 6 is now a pointor to `err:notfound`

## Added

- `if:` and `-if:`
- `c:get` to retro.forth
- `s:get` to retro.forth
- `listen` to retro.forth

## Renamed

## I/O

## Toolchain

## VM

- nga-c

  - retro.c no longer does dictionary searches to find
    needed resources in image
  - shift instruction no longer using an unneeded multiply
    (Arland Childers)
  - retro-repl.c now uses an external image
  - removed barebones.c (overlaps w/new retro-repl.c)
  - retro-runtime.c now based on standard retro.c

- nga-nim

  - fix bug in VM_SH
  - minor formatting adjustments
  - start work to report some errors

## Examples

- add archive, archive-info, archive-extract
- add delete-file
- variables-and-formulas now in UTF8 (Marcus Antonius)

## Documentation

- removed references to old command line arguments
- removed reference to the no longer existing "ok" prompt
- add a note that mentions that Retro does not display a prompt