Costa 2.0 is a major release of Costa, although it might not look like it. All of Costa has converted to or rewritten in Turbo Pascal, removing the need for a run-time BASIC module. Some parts have been rewritten in Assembly, to ensure low memory needs and high performance in parts of the program where it really matters.
- Heavy optimizations - Costa now only takes up around half the amount of disk space than version 1.8.0, and runs faster
- New launcher, COSTA.COM. Optimized to use only 1.3 kilobytes memory when running, ensuring your programs and games have as much memory available as possible.
- Messagebox buttons now show their action instead of just Yes/No - for example, if exiting the icon editor with an unsaved icon loaded, it will ask you to "Save" or "Discard". This makes the outcome of choices easier to interpret.