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Hi,

The first in our regular cycles of z88dk has been released. This release
contains changes that have been applied over the past two years, including
a number of new platforms, changes to the core libraries to make compiled
programs smaller and faster and a large number of other changes. The
details that can be remembered are listed below:

- [sccz80] Bug fixes, tweaks to single parameter function pointer calls
- [z80asm] Z80asm supporting Rabbit
- [zcpp] End of file fix for win32
- [zcc] -Cz flag to pass through to appmake
- [appmake] Support for most z88dk targets
- [lib/crt0] Support for Newbrain, Rabbit, Sega Master System SMS, TS2068
- [lib] Much of the library rewritten to use FASTCALL and CALLEE linkage
for faster and small library function calls
- [lib] malloc library can now allocate from a scattered map of available
RAM and supports multiple heaps
- [lib] balloc library introduced as a block memory allocator
- [lib] interrupt mode 2 library added
- [lib] stdlib and strings now completely implemented in assembler and
expanded
- [lib] abstract data types library introduced initially containing linked
list,  heap, stack and queue algorithms library begun initially containing an
implementation of the A* search algorithm
- [lib] ZX Spectrum : SZX basic fcntl driver
- [lib] ZX Spectrum : SP1 software sprite engine added
- [lib] ZX Spectrum : Improved Spectrum library includes new display
functions
- [lib] ZX Spectrum : Input library added for direct access to keyboard,
joystick and mouse devices

A source package and a kit containing win32 binaries can be obtained
from the sourceforge download page.

Enjoy, and special thanks to Alvin, Stefano for making this happen (not
forgetting all the other contributors).

The next scheduled release is v1.8 on 13/1/2008, though there may be a bug
fix release for 1.7 between now and then.

d.


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