Version History

• 1.32
  • JSON import function.
  • Break statement for loops.
  • Optional argument to the BRK instruction.
  • Arithmetic shift right operator.
  • Shifts supports negative values.
  • Assignment add for strings.
  • Loop over characters in a string using range for.
  • min() and max() functions can take a list argument.
  • Fix for a bug that accepted null characters in include files.
  • "petscii" conversion format has been replaced with "pet", "pet2001", "vic20", "c16", "plus4", "c64" and "c128".
• 1.31
  • Fixed a serious bug where 16 bit branches in 65ce02 and 45gs02 jumped to the wrong address.
• 1.30
  • Fixed a crash when a symbol definition referred to the constant or variable being created.
  • Added loop limit of 1 million iterations.
  • Added 7-bit ASCII conversion format.
  • The list type now has a sort function.
  • stq (nn,sp),y has been removed from 45gs02 instruction set
• 1.29
  • Renamed the 'map' type to 'dict' to support the map instruction of the 45gs02.
  • Added experimental support for Mega65 45GS02.
  • Fixed a serious bug in 65CE02 where the program counter wasn't increased correctly for the addressing modes '#nnnn', 'b,nn' and 'b,nn,rel'.
• 1.28
  • Added support for CSG 65CE02.
• 1.27
  • Added support for Western Design Center 65C02.
  • Break assembling after 100 passes.
  • Fixed missing hex dump output from align statements.
• 1.26
  • Locale support was broken in v1.25. This is now reverted to the C locale in Windows.
  • Missing files are printed as warnings if errors are detected during tokenizing or syntax analysis to avoid confusing errors.
• 1.25
  • Fixed a serious memory overwrite bug when multibyte characters are used in the source code.
  • Unified all processors into one executable. The processor keyword is used to select processor.
  • Include and incbin has moved from the tokenizer pass to the assemble pass to allow constructing include filenames programmatically.
  • Added optional hex output.
  • Project files for CodeBlocks and Visual Studio has been removed.
• 1.24
  • Added pseudo instructions for 6502 and Z80.
  • Added the ability to call a subroutine with a macro call style.
  • Improved documentation regarding alignment.
  • Added hi and lo properties on word storage types.
  • Added logn function.
  • Added uppercase and lowercase conversion functions.
  • Added an option to name output files entirely after sections.
  • Fixed a bug the section size limit wasn't enforced for child sections.
  • Fixed a bug where 's' became a pound character in Petscii conversions.
• 1.23
  • Strings can now contain the zero character (previously mistaken as the end of the string).
  • Added a string conversion flag to set the 7th bit in the last character.
  • Documentation has been html validated.
  • The high byte operator (>) is guaranteed to return a 8 bit value if the bank mode has been enabled.
  • Started cross compiling the Windows build. This will probably mean more frequent releases.
• 1.22
  • Symbol difference dump added at debug verbosity when an oscillating state occurs. Also the generation pass is run to give more error information if that happens.
  • Removed CodeBlocks project in favor of KDevelop.
  • Migrated from Git to Mercurial.
• 1.21
  • Fixed broken instruction data labels on Z80.
  • Removed the special syntax for petscii strings and character literals. This is replaced by the string() function that now takes over the translation.
  • Added string conversion to ZX80 and ZX81 character sets.
  • If there are more addressing mode combinations that 11, the printout is skipped to avoid spamming the error log.
  • Added No$GBA symbol dump format to aid ZX80/81 coding in EightyOne.
  • Fixed unnamed scopes in the symbol dump file for repeat scopes and the root scope.
  • Removed the initial namespace separator in symbol dump file.
  • Allow exporting instruction data labels from modules.
• 1.20
  • Added unicode function to convert a character to a string.
• 1.19
  • Fixed a serious problem in the z80 version where the automatic @i variable couldn't be used.
  • It is now possible to make local variables with names using processor keywords.
  • 6502 register names are now reserved keywords. It was possible to create global variables with register names. This change is one step towards storing a register type in a variable.
• 1.18
  • Fixed a serious problem in the z80 version where instruction names were colliding with keywords and property names.
  • Fixed documentation bug.
  • Optimized variable handling.
• 1.17
  • Fixed a bug where references to values were not followed when defining data.
  • Floats can no longer be used as keys in maps since they shouldn't be compared for equality.
  • Fixed a bug where different internal types were treated as different even if the value was actually the same.
  • Optimized copy-on-write to only make copies if there are at least two references to the object. Large lists and maps were incredibly slow before this change.
• 1.16
  • Fixed a serious bug that caused crashes if expressions contained macro calls that generated a lot of local variables.
• 1.15
  • Fixed a serious bug that caused broken expressions if they contained a lot of operators.
  • Dropped support for Code::Blocks due to bugs in the IDE. Now Sublime Text 3 and GDB is used instead.
• 1.14
  • The map data type was added.
  • The operator precedence for shift is now higher than multiply, divide, add and subtract.
  • Fixed a bug where variables could be fetched from the previous assembly pass.
• 1.13
  • The Z80 instructions adc, add, sbc and sub has mirrored addressing modes to support both immediate value and a register or only the immediate value.
  • An unstable variable state is considered an error now.
• 1.12
  • Fixed setting word registers to negative values in Z80.
  • Fixed a parsing bug in Z80 indirect addressing mode instructions.
• 1.11
  • Changed operator precendence so that &, | and ^ has higher priority than compare operators. This basically abandons the C-style precendence and adopts the Rust one.
  • Added a warning for a code path passing through the end of a subroutine.
  • Fixed a serious bug where local and global constants or variables with the same name could be mixed up in the root scope.
• 1.10
  • Stderr is no longer used
  • Select function like ternary if
  • Modulo and remainder functions
  • Multi bank mode truncates word arguments and definitions
• 1.9
  • Macro function support
• 1.8
  • List support
  • Range-based for loop
  • Fixed cases where constant could be modified
• 1.7
  • Z80 support
  • C-style multiline comments
  • Removed the -hraw argument. This is now default.
• 1.6
  • Tailing comma allowed in enum definitions
  • Ellipsis can be used in data definitions to create repeated patterns
  • Fill byte can be specified when aligning memory
  • Incbin takes optional arguments for start offset and max size
• 1.5
  • Module import variables
• 1.4
  • Dynamically generated symbol names
  • Print function
  • Fixed a serious precedence and associativity bug in the expression evaluation
• 1.3
  • Modules
  • Macro call stack in error messages
• 1.2
  • Generic predeclared symbols
  • Macro code can use local variables surrounding the macro code
• 1.1
  • Section parts
  • Section part mappings
  • Syntax highlighting for Sublime Text 3
  • Local subroutines
  • Reservation of zero sized arrays
• 1.0
  • Initial release