FMSLogo

FMSLogo

Screenshot of FMSLogo v6.35.0
Developer(s)	David Costanzo
Initial release	11 October 2005 (2005-10-11)
Stable release	6.35.0 / 2 January 2016 (2016-01-02)
Operating system	Windows 95 and later
Available in	English, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Russian
Type	Programming Language
License	GNU General Public License
Website	fmslogo.sourceforge.net

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^[1] at MIT. Its core is the same as UCBLogo by Brian Harvey.^[1] 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:^[2]

"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

1 2 "MSWLogo, An Educational programming language". www.softronix.com. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
↑ Feature Description - http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/

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