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# RetroForth 2021.1 Release Notes
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## Core Language
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* `choose` (and other conditionals) now treat non-zero as `TRUE` and
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zero as `FALSE` instead of requiring a flag of -1 for `TRUE`
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* add \^ (ASCII ESC) to escape sequences in `s:format`
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## I/O
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* improvements to some of the pipe related words in the `unix:`
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namespace
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* reduced code size for each device handler slightly
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* added `abort` to Retro on Unix
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## Toolchain
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### Makefile
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* Small adjustments to reduce build time
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### C
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* retro-unu
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- now supports user defined code and test block delimiters (C)
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* retro-muri
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- supports changes from retro-unu
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- now has separate passes for each step of the assembly process
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- removed some unused variables
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### Python
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* retro-amalgamate.py added to generate a single file Python source
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* faster retro-extend.py
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* added retro-embedimage.py
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## VM
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### nga-c
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* reduced redundancy across the various implementations in C
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* removed an unused function
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### nga-python
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* now written using classes
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* no longer limited to 32 or 64 bit cells
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* uses Python functions to shadow some Retro words for better
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performance
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* caches the Retro dictionary to improve lookup performance
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* embeds image as a Python source
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* now supports `-f`, `-i`, and `-u` command line parameters
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* improved error handling for invalid addresses
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## Examples
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* added "2020 Advent of Code", days 1-5
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* added palindromic numbers detection (SVFIG challenge)
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* added bindings over curl
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* added muri with direct use of hex values
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* refactoring & general cleanups in Atua-WWW
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* Atua-WWW now ignores ?... appended to URLs
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