Thanks for your interest!

Some answers:

The steelkix runtime compiles plain text files and runs them by default. You can optionally compile your script to a .dll file and load that the next time to speed up startup.

You will need the .net framework 2.0 to use steelkix.

Chr(0) (By this, I assume you mean something like nul characters in strings support? If not, please clarify) is supported. Some .net classes may still experience problems with these characters. You have access to classes like FileStream that support writing and reading binary files.

I want to complete this, but I do not want to write all of the standard functions, since this is to much work for me (not to mention quite boring). As I stated before, steelkix supports compiling script files to dll's. It also supports loading these compiled libraries at runtime, so these functions can be written as some sort of base library in steelkix, compiled to a dll and then loaded in scrips. I plan to release the source of the complete project when I'm comfortable with the quality.

I do not have a download for you yet, sorry. I want to finish up some things before I release anything.