Stable Alpha - v1.0-alpha-103120 🎃

Highlights of this Release which includes 24 PR's from our growing team of contributors:

• #218: SQLite for Btrieve Backend Emulation
  • HUGE refactor and improvement from @paladine converting all legacy Btrieve files to SQLite Databases
  • Btrieve Key Definitions and Constraints are maintained in SQLite Conversion
  • All Btreve Operations from MajorBBS & Worldgroup Modules now convert to SQLite Queries
  • Anyone can now view & modify Module Data using the SQLite editor of their choice!
  • Major Performance Increase for Btrieve heavy games (MajorMUD, Mutants!, etc.)
  • More information on the new SQLite enhancement in our Wiki
• #222, #220, #201, #198 x86 Core & Memory Performance Enhancement
  • Major Optimizations to overall performance of both the CPU Core and Memory Core
  • Benchmarks 85% faster than previous releases
  • Raspberry Pi benchmarks at 2.8 MIPS (~386DX)
  • i9-9900k benchmarks at 29 MIPS (~486DX2)
  • Puts emulator performance on-par or better than original hardware that would run The MajorBBS & Worldgroup 2.0!
• #234, #213, #210, #203, #197, #196 MajorMUD Fixes
  • Many Quality of Life fixes for MajorMUD thanks to all the bug reports from the community!
  • MajorMUD is now very playable, but there are still missing ordinals
  • More testing is needed, but support for MajorMUD continues to get better with every release!
• #232, #231, #219 Additional Automated Unit Tests and Fixes
  • Many new automated Unit Tests for MAJORBBS ordinals
  • Small fixes for defects discovered by these new Automated Unit Tests
• #221 Friendly appsettings.json Messages
  • Missing/Incorrect values in appsettings.json will not generate a friendly error message
  • Some values, if missing will display a warning and return a default
  • Please see our Wiki article on appsettings.json options and their values

... and many other bug fixes and enhancements!