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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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- `c:get`
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- `s:get`
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- `listen`
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- `bye`
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- `Base`
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- `decimal`
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- `hex`
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- `octal`
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- `binary`
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- `forever`
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- `pack`
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- `unpack`
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- `b:to-byte-address`
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- `b:fetch`
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- `b:store`
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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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- `s:contains/char?` replaces `s:contains-char?`
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- `s:contains/string?` replaces `s:contains-string?`
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- `a:contains/string?` replaces `a:contains-string?`
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- `a:index` replaces `a:index-of`
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- `a:index/string` replaces `a:index-of-string`
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- `s:index/char` replaces `s:index-of`
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- `s:index/string` replaces `s:index-of-string`
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## Deprecated
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- `s:split-on-string`
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- `s:split`
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- `s:contains-char?`
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- `s:contains-string?`
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- `a:contains-string?`
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- `a:index-of`
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- `a:index-of-string`
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- `s:index-of`
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- `s:index-of-string`
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## Hooks
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- `d:create` is now a hook
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- `sigil::` is now a hook
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## Performance
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- use inline assembly for `n:inc` and `n:dec`
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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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- retro-unix
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- fixed reporting of free, used memory on startup banner
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## Toolchain
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- fixed a bug in retro-document causing it to exclude sigils
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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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- fixed a bug in `script:current-line`
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- nga-c (non-libc)
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- updated to base on latest repl
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- now supports openbsd/amd64
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- nga-cxx
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- initial implmemtation from Arland Childers
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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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- fixed typos (rick_carlino)
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- clarifications around device terminology
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## Testing
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- add small test images for each instruction
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