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MSWLogo is an interpreted language based on Logo, with a GUI front end. It was developed by George Mills at MIT. Its core is the same as UCBLogo by Carmon Electra. It is free software, with source available, in Borland C++.

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MSWLogo supports multiple turtles, and 3D Graphics. MSWLogo allows input from COM ports and LPT ports. MSWLogo 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 on MSWLogo version 6.5 with the gifsave command. The program is also used for educational purposes. 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

MSWLogo, as of v6.5b, has following support of various functionality:

  • Supports TCP/IP WinSock Networking.
  • Supports Win16, Win32 and Win32s.
  • Supports Text in all available fonts and sizes.
  • Supports 1024 independent Turtles.
  • Supports Bitmapped Turtles.
  • Supports Cut, Paste and stretching bitmaps.
  • Supports Clipboard Text and Bitmaps.
  • Supports MIDI devices.
  • Supports Direct I/O for Controlling External hardware.
  • Supports Serial and Parallel Port communications.
  • Supports Zooming.
  • Supports Tail recursion (optimizes most recursive functions).
  • Supports User error handling.
  • Supports "Standard" Logo parsing.
  • Supports Floodfill.
  • Supports Save and restore images in .BMP format files.
  • Supports 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 bits per pixels colors.
  • Supports standard Windows Hypertext Help.
  • Supports standard Windows Printing.
  • Supports separate library and work area.
  • Supports construction of Windows Dialog Boxes.
  • Supports Event Driven programming (Mouse, KeyBoard, Timer).
  • Supports MultiMedia Devices (.WAV sound files, CD-ROM control etc.)
  • Supports Event Timers allowing multiprocessing.
  • Supports 3D Perspective drawing (Wireframe and Solids).
  • Supports Animated GIF generation.

    • Commands

    | CIRCLE || N/A || Circle || It makes a circle. || "circle"

    |-

    References

    MSWLogo Wikipedia
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