• True color text and graphics at 4:3 and widescreen resolutions from 160x200 up to 1920x1200 pixels

• video modes hardware-scaled to a fixed output resolution for maximum compatibility with all TVs and computer monitors

• Software sprites (up to 32 sprites sized up to 32x32 pixels).

• Scrollable tiled background graphics engine with up to four layers.

• Wavetable synthesizer and PLAY command that renders music in MML format.

• Loading and saving of most image file formats to and from video memory, including PNG and JPG

• Custom text fonts specifically made for the BASIC Engine

• Structured programming constructs (DO/LOOP, WHILE/WEND, IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF blocks).

• Labels and named procedures with local variables.

• Numbers are double-precision floating point.

• String and numeric list types (particularly useful for game programming).

• Escape codes for PRINT, similar to the control characters in Commodore BASIC.

• Event handlers (sprite collision, end-of-music, errors, game controller input).

• "Screen editor" similar to Commodore BASIC, allowing direct manipulation of on-screen code and commands, while also permitting scrolling within the program in memory.

• Syntax highlighting and automatic indentation in LIST command.

• Loading of programs with or without line numbers.

• HELP command provides a built-in reference for all elements of the BASIC language

• classic UTF-8 text editor (Atto) with BASIC syntax highlighting built-in

Engine BASIC is available in five languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese), with all system messages and help texts translated. National keyboards layouts for all supported languages are available.

Unicode and UTF-8 are fully supported by BASIC. The built-in fonts support various alphabetic scripts as well as Japanese kana. Kanji fonts are loaded as required. A basic Japanese input method is available.

It is possible to extend the Engine BASIC system with custom modules loaded at run time. This provides nearly endless possibilities to augment the functionality of the Engine BASIC system: new BASIC commands, graphical capabilities, device drivers, utility programs, new input and output methods, ports of programs from other platforms etc.

An extensive API is provided for extension developers, consisting of standard library and Engine BASIC-specific functions. An on-board C compiler makes it possible to develop extensions (or any other programs) on the BASIC Engine itself.

The modules directory in the demos repository provides examples showing how to use the API and how to cross-compile modules.

The Lua language and the SAM speech synthesizer that were built into the firmware on the classic BASIC Engine platform are now provided as modules.

• Z-code interpreter for playing interactive fiction games.

• Customizable color scheme, start-up screen mode and font..

• Switchable video filter provides a choice between crisp integral scaling and filtered output

• Automated test suite adapted from Bywater BASIC.