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the tests now include a small muri assembly file for each instruction. if your vm runs these successfully and supports basic i/o, it should be sufficient to run a full retro system. FossilOrigin-Name: b80eaeb75ee2b4476f5b5a4aa62adf76da3ed11ac3b2f493f77d9bd4366f8ea9
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# RetroForth 2021.7 (In-Progress) Release Notes
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## Core Language
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## Major Changes
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- address 5 is now a pointer to `interpret`
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- address 6 is now a pointor to `err:notfound`
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- address 7 now points to TIB
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- address 8 points to end of TIB
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## Added
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- `if:` and `-if:`
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- `c:get` to retro.forth
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- `s:get` to retro.forth
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- `listen` to retro.forth
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- added `Base`
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- added `decimal`
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- added `hex`
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- added `octal`
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- added `binary`
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## Renamed
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- `s:split/string` replaces `s:split-on-string`
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- `s:split/char` replaces `s:split`
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## Deprecated
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- `s:split-on-string`
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- `s:split`
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## I/O
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- floating point
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- increased precision of `f:E` and `f:PI` (Kiyoshi)
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## Toolchain
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## VM
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- all
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- no longer hard code TIB address (pull from image instead)
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- nga-c
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- retro.c no longer does dictionary searches to find
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needed resources in image
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- shift instruction no longer using an unneeded multiply
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(Arland Childers)
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- retro-repl.c now uses an external image
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- removed barebones.c (overlaps w/new retro-repl.c)
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- retro-runtime.c now based on standard retro.c
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- changed behavior of -t command line argument (Rick)
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- nga-nim
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- fix bug in VM_SH
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- minor formatting adjustments
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- start work to report some errors
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## Examples
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- add archive, archive-info, archive-extract
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- add delete-file
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- variables-and-formulas now in UTF8 (Marcus Antonius)
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## Documentation
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- removed references to old command line arguments
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- removed reference to the no longer existing "ok" prompt
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- add a note that mentions that Retro does not display a prompt
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## Testing
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- add small test images for each instruction
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