When I was a young child, one of my best friends was a turtle. Not a real turtle, although that would have been fun, but a virtual one. My turtle lived inside of an Apple [more…]
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…]
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…]
In the early 1980s, if you wanted posters to advertise a yard sale or a party, your options were pretty limited. You could get some blank sheets of paper and some crayons or felt markers [more…]
School kids today may all have tablets, but in the early 1980s you were lucky if your classroom had its own computer! More likely, there was only one (or maybe two) for the entire school. [more…]
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…]
In the 1960s, television was something that was a passive occupation, you turn it on an it entertained you. The possibility that you might be able to create or manage what you saw on the [more…]
Danger Will Robinson! High Voltage! In order to work, a TV or monitor uses high-voltage currents which can electrocute you! For electrons to be attracted enough to the anode to leave the cathode in a [more…]
Recently we experienced some negative feedback on a public forum from an individual who took issue with our exuberance in announcing new features in microM8, calling them unimportant or defective, accusing us of stealing some [more…]
You can duke it out with a friend, but be careful not to fall into the star in this exclusive Spacewar clone written in Apple Logo. Seymour Papert’s Logo programming language is perfect for a [more…]
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