FMSLogo

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Developer(s) David Costanzo Type Programming Language		Operating system Windows 95 and later

Initial release 11 October 2005; 11 years ago (2005-10-11) Stable release 6.35.0 / 2 January 2016; 13 months ago (2016-01-02) Available in English, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Russian

FMSLogo is a free implementation of a computing environment called Logo, which is an educational interpreter language. GUI and Extensions were developed by George Mills at MIT. Its core is the same as UCBLogo by Brian Harvey. It is free software, with source available, written with Borland C++ and WxWidgets.

FMSLogo supports multiple turtles, and 3D Graphics. FMSLogo allows input from COM ports and LPT ports. FMSLogo also supports a windows interface thus I/O is available through this GUI- and keyboard and mouse events can trigger interrupts. Simple GIF animations may also be produced with the GIFSAVE command. Jim Muller wrote The Great Logo Adventure, a complete Logo manual using MSWLogo as the demonstration language.

MSWLogo has evolved into FMSLogo: An Educational Programming Environment, a free, open source implementation of the Logo programming language for Microsoft Windows. It is released under the GPL and is mainly developed and maintained by David Costanzo.

Features

FMSLogo has following support of various functionality:

"Standard" Logo parsing

Turtle Graphics

Exception handling

TCP/IP networking

Text in all available system fonts

1024 independent turtles

Bitmapped turtles

MIDI devices

Direct I/O for controlling external hardware (must be admin)

Serial and parallel port communications

Saving and loading images in BMP format

Calling into native DLLs

Creating windows dialog boxes

Event driven programming (mouse, keyboard, timer)

Controlling multimedia devices (WAV sound files, CD-ROM control, etc.)

3D Perspective drawing (wire-frame and solids)

Creating animated GIFs

References

FMSLogo Wikipedia

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