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Updates are below, feel free to provide comments, suggestions, or critiques.

8 font banks instead of 4, with bank animation and editing.

Mill project system — save/open/close/autoload .mill projects and ZIP project export.

Multi-song music library with named songs and FastBasic music export.

FastBasic Game Builder — choose exactly which fonts/assets/songs to export, with live memory estimates and remembered selections.

DLI / Color Band Editor — visual editing, finite/persistent bands, real FastBasic DLI runtime generation, and Graphics 0-aware timing.

DLI WYSIWYG preview can display the actual 40×24 tile map and live font banks.

Improved Atari colors — NTSC Standard, PAL Standard, and external .ACT palette support; DLI values shown as hex + decimal.

NTSC palette Rev 2 — substantially improved Atari blues and luminance levels.

PMG Editor — Players 0–3 and Missiles 0–3, animation frames, single/double width, X/Y positioning, and drag positioning.

PMG FastBasic runtime — @DrawPMG, @MovePMG, @ShowPMG, @HidePMG, and @DisablePMG, including proper shared missile packing.

Scene Preview — place PM graphics over the current tile map or bitmap graphics screen.

Graphics Editor expanded to GR.3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 15.

Graphics drawing tools — Pencil, Line, Box, Filled Box, Circle, Filled Circle, brushes, and contiguous Fill.

Rubber-band previews for lines, boxes, and circles before committing the shape.

Faster graphics drawing using a PhotoImage canvas instead of thousands of Tk rectangles.

Removed the experimental GR.8 artifacting from the Graphics Editor.

Removed the global A = Animate shortcut; animation is button-only.