New features in SuperMemo 98 as compared with SuperMemo 8.4:

• 32-bit application
• increased speed (e.g. rendering elements 400%, search 200%, review in contents 100%, review in browsers 100%, recovery 80%, and more)
• long filenames
• unlimited length of texts
• unlimited number of elements in the browser
• RTF support
• HTML support (including hyperlinks to other elements, registry text and images, external HTML files and files available from the Internet)
• JavaScript support (in HTML components)
• OLE support (e.g. to include files from MS Word, Corel, MS Equation, MindMan, etc.)
• support for WMF, transparent and stretched GIFs and JPGs and more
• transparent texts and images
• background images in the element window
• three levels of complexity: beginner, basic, and professional (to make SuperMemo easier at the entry level)
• selectable interface font
• in-built simulation of the learning process
• new browser operations: sorting by columns, remember, forget, dismiss, final drill, etc.
• automatic final drill scrambling
• Question of the Day
• support via the Internet directly from the program
• HTML help
• one-step upgrade of files created under SuperMemo 8.4 (simply open the kno file)
• possibility of installing a plug-in repetition spacing algorithm developed by a third party (e.g. neural network SuperMemo)

See also: Minimum requirements