Release v1.2.2026-07-17

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Release notes

1.2.2026-07-17

Features

• Banked program memory, FRE() function, array region, boot ROM layout (b2e99a2)
• Add STEP support for FOR loops (df4639f)
• Add scroll navigation, line-wrap tracking, and wrap-aware editing (bd83aa5)
• Remap editing keys (174c599)
• Add LOMEM command for program page allocation (#114) (ee21fce)
• Add user-defined functions (fn/endfn) (#115) (59af723)
• DIR improvements, CD command, and slot 3 module architecture (#118) (8bf6578)
• Allow for an optional variable reference in next (#121) (71916bc)
• tab() modifier for print/input (#122) (0bd4e67)
• Page split on mid-page insert for multi-page programs (#123) (6ff2dec)
• Updated startup banner (#124) (d5bff89)
• Joystick 1 support in joyx/joyy/joyb functions (9bdd763)

Bug fixes

• Correct else indentation in list output (5431177)
• Sprite collision threshold corrupted at high y-positions (a6a98b5)
• SPC() infinite loop and direct command loop after break (138f92c)
• Scroll navigation page boundary, indentation, and scroll-down (1a61878)
• Set FirstFreePage to 48 for 512KB systems (6e22acb)
• Inline string corruption in multi-page programs (#113) (090cdae)
• Tiles off command causes system lockup (#93) (bea4257)
• Slot 5 re-entrancy bug in / command and remove unused SIZE keyword (#120) (f537d6b)
• DIR compatibility with older kernels, SAVE message and code section relief (#142) (4974134)
• DIM a(255) zero-element array and scroll-up off-by-one fill (#143) (440e373)
• Default text colour is grey instead of brown (#144) (9924166)
• Relieve code overflow that crashed string operations (#145) (31ad261)
• Default text colour uses palette index 9 ($92) (#146) (4c0edaf)

Under the hood

• Always clean modules build output (b747547)
• Bump minor version (7d636fa)
• Convert jmp to bra and remove redundant .cresync calls (763b150)
• Fix memory allocation and build configuration (7620da4)
• Remove Makefile emu target changes (testing only) (ba835c5)
• Document ScanForward etc (fab3210)
• Document VariableHandler (6a8528e)
• Document for/next loop implementation (befdb16)
• Update README links etc. (b48dbed)
• Detect page overflows (#132) (416e2fb)
• Move modules dir under source (#133) (3f15b28)
• Move common.make from documents to source (#134) (1098b25)
• Delete obsolete documents/fpga dir (#135) (061b1ae)
• Move benchmarks dir to the root (#136) (171218f)
• Move Sublime syntax highlighting definition to syntax (#137) (8f81c1e)
• Add data overflow checks (#139) (c2eb26a)
• common.make -> definitions.mk (#140) (2496ae7)
• Reserve top 4 physical pages for the NMI break monitor (#147) (74434e7)