1.5.0

Another release of crustyBASIC is here. Enjoy!

Any bug reports let me know on the forums here or at our Discord.

• New target ZX Spectrum and improved the Sinclair BASIC dialect handling
• SPRITE updates - png, frame size, multi frame size, transparent color
• TILE updates - TILEMAPs, palette
• Added CHARMAP and more support for charset importing/usage
• Added image effects like wipes, etc to IMAGE api
• Added @periodic which allows for audio playback, frame animation, etc
• Added multiline comments using /' and '/ or /* and */and others, can be configured to be different
• Added @REWRITE_BLOCK to allow multi line expansion
• New type U1 for BOOL/bit, packed to save space for RAM starved targets
• Added Apple II option to not utilize DOS for more RAM (output type bootdisk)
• Loading images is much faster now (packed/RLE)
• Added support for a memory heap and dynamic strings and arrays
• Programs can now span multiple disjoint memory regions
• Added support for overlays for large programs
• Real support for dos16
• Support for C128's BANK 1
• Coco updates - display modes, file I/O, disk generation, optimizations
• New CLEAR_xyz text routines for clearing parts of lines/screen
• Lots of improvements to vic20 sprites and software sprites in general
• Lots of improvements to the QBasic dialect parser
• Lots of apple 2 graphical fixes and speed ups
• FILE_LOAD_PROGRAM for cbm targets