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Introducing turtleSpaces Logo – Apple Logo II Evolved

September 4, 2020 paleotronic 0

Some time ago, we wrote an Apple Logo II-compatible interpreter as a part of microM8, our (mainly) Apple II emulator, along with an Applesoft BASIC interpreter. We added some rudimentary 3D support to the Logo [more…]

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Build a No-Slot MIDI Interface on the Apple ][ Game I/O Socket

July 5, 2020 paleotronic 0

In today’s world of plug-and-play peripheral devices, it is difficult to understand the fundamentals of what is happening at the lower levels.  How does the computer connect to the device?  How does it communicate with [more…]

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A New ZX Spectrum Christmas Demo!

December 4, 2019 paleotronic 0

In the best of home computer traditions; here at Paleotronic we’re celebrating Christmas with a quick delve into Sinclair BASIC and a festive type in listing. It’s time to dust off the trusty 48k ZX [more…]

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Tut-Tut – a new game for the ZX Spectrum

November 5, 2019 paleotronic 0

(Editor’s Note: David has also created a ZX81 version of Tut-Tut which is available from his blog: https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/10/zx81-game-tut-tut.html) It’s coming to the end of 1921’s digging season in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Your excavations have [more…]

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Old Logo Turtle… New microLogo Tricks!

September 5, 2019 paleotronic 0

So it’s fair to say we might have gone a little crazy tricking out the turtle in microM8‘s OpenGL Apple Logo implementation… New Graphical Primitives: Wireframe: Reminder: SETPC color – sets the ‘pen’ colour SETPOPA [more…]

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The Toy Store: The Milton Bradley Big Trak

April 9, 2019 paleotronic 0

One of the hottest Christmas toys of 1979 was a lunar-inspired tank that taught rudimentary computer programming! The Milton Bradley Big Trak (also stylised as bigtrak) is a programmable toy resembling a futuristic utility vehicle [more…]

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Lunarcy: A Lunar Lander in Apple Logo

March 16, 2019 paleotronic 0

Lunarcy is a fun and simple lunar lander game written in Apple Logo and compatible with microM8’s microLogo, a vector-based OpenGL re-implementation. You control a lander with a joystick (or the keyboard’s arrow keys) and you [more…]

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A New Lunar Lander for the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000

March 14, 2019 paleotronic 0

In late 1972, as Apollo Space Missions were winding down a burgeoning virtual space race was busily preparing for launch. A sub-genre of simulation games soon to be known as Lunar Landers was taking to [more…]

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There’s a 3D Flying Dragon inside microM8’s [Applesoft] microBASIC Interpreter!

March 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

It made a sort of logical sense that if our microM8 Apple II emulator rendered in 3D (it does) and it had its own Applesoft-compatible BASIC interpreter (it does), we should make a 3D graphics [more…]

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Logo Adventure for Apple Logo

November 10, 2018 paleotronic 0

Don Hopkins recently posted his clever Logo Adventure for C64 Terrapin Logo, a skeleton of an adventure game that uses Logo’s own parser as the parser for the game, by defining commands as procedures and using [more…]

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Logo is a great language for learning how to code!

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