Subj : IcyTerm 0.8.0 - even more ICE
To   : All
From : Omnibrain
Date : Sat Nov 29 2025 03:23 pm


https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases/tag/IcyTerm0.8.0

The major update - long promised - finally here :)

Completely rewritten foundation!

+ Complete new UI library, Shaders, Styling
- On the plus side icy term should now run on most systems + VMs unlike the
older UI library which required recent machines.
- New dialogs, better dialing directory
- Strongly improved emulation output overall - let's say skypix animations now work
+ Complete new Parser/Middleware libraries, speed optimized
updated many libraries to newer versions - some are just ~1 month old - yeah!
Internally everything changed, hope that helps development/stabilizing to 1.0.
+ Scripting Language (lua based)
- SCRIPTING.md is in the repo - too much for an announcement.
Basically it's inheriting icy_draw script engine. Start from cmd line or alt+r
+ MCP server (cmd line option communiction via http)
- AI will be everywhere - now your terminal isn't secure too
- Yes it can write scripts for you if you ask kindly
+ Real Scrollback buffer (old growing buffer was more an experiment)
+ RLogin support
+ Emulation
- Atari ST VT52 + IGS (including sound)
- Atari 8Bit got a XEP80 module
- RIP/Skypix work now much better
- UTF8 alpha support (guess that will have to wait for icy_draw)
- C64 got a new palette - maybe I should make palettes configurable across the board
+ New Serial dialog + baud auto detection
- Modems should work now but I still need to test a real connection
+ Multi window support (ctrl+shift+n, alt+numbers to switch)
+ Clipboard improved - new library can handle rich text + bitmaps as well
+ ZModem improved (thanks to Shurato for testing/pointing to issues)
+ F1 keyboard help system, I probably forgot some things :).
+ New startup behavior with splashscreen from grymmjack + some easter eggs
+ ssh can now include username/pw user:pw@URL - this is important for setting other user/pw for login than for IEMSI.
- Removed IEMSI user/pw UI - switched to the sheme above.
- works from cmd line as well when connecting.
+ Fixed many bugs, impvemented more Ansi things, invented completely new bugs never seen before

Missing: Context menus. 
They'll get added to the UI library at some point.
But for icy_term they're too late.
I don't think they make a new release of iced (the UI lib I switched to)
this year - so I decided to release without.

I DOSed many BBSes during this development&

Happy BBSing!

One more thing - the awesome IGS intro from GoF - finally without Atari:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7U4_HkLim0

**Overview**:
https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/blob/master/crates/icy_term/README.md

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