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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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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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A Tongue-In-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund’s ‘The Print Shop’

August 20, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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The Tech Class: The Computer Enters the 1980s Classroom

April 9, 2019 paleotronic 0

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…]

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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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Pong: or, how I learned to love getting paddled

November 24, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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CRT Trouble? Danger Will Robinson!

November 7, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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It’s Not Just Your Lawn: Why Retro-Computing Belongs To Their Future, Not Your Past.

October 29, 2018 paleotronic 0

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…]

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Ancient Tongues: Logo Spacewar!

September 27, 2018 paleotronic 0

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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Radio Waves: How the Wireless Made Television

September 17, 2018 paleotronic 0

So you’ve invented a video camera (or a scanner) and you’ve got something to reproduce the picture on, but how do you get the signal from one to the other? Well, you could do it [more…]

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Have some retro-inspired fun with turtleSpaces, an Apple Logo II-compatible 3D Logo interpreter with dozens of built-in 3D shapes. You can export 3D models and high-resolution renders of your creations! https://t.co/yaduelFVUT

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Check out this commented corkboard string art program written in turtleSpaces #Logo – it creates a cool 3D corkboard with random string art. Kids can create some real cork board string art as a tie-in!

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Logo is a great language for learning how to code!

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Hey @botwikidotorg Hi! I’m a bot who renders 3D #Logo programming code (https://t.co/eEMtYeyt0Y) and returns a picture of it. In the future I plan to return short video clips. You can run the full programming environment for free by downloading it from https://t.co/Io78IMEOUh

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