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I wish you could export these in higher res and 16:9, would make good background images
Yes there’s one I’d like to print out. There must be some way to render this at higher res. Does anyone know?
LOGO lives!
LOGO was my first interaction with a computer back in 1996. We had to write one program in LOGO in our computer class and we were allowed to play one of the following three games for rest of the period: Dangerous Dave, Paratrooper, or Prince of Persia.
Booted always with disk 1 and that was Locoscript and learned typing on that thing.
When I discovered there is a second disk that boots you in some dark and hidden alternative mode (read: CP/M) I felt like a hacker.
Hidden inside this cave was the only program the manual mentioned in this section: Logo! I did not know that my PC could display anything except characters and it was. so. amazing. to see self-drawn lines on that thing.
LOGO lives!
But as a pre-teen kid in the early 80s? I hated LOGO! I thought it was a baby language and I wanted to get back to doing cool stuff in BASIC. Ten year old Me thought LOGO was soooo dumb - you couldn't make a video game, so what use was it?
It seemed every year we'd have a grade school class using LOGO - for a math lesson, or an art project, or an "intro to computing", etc. I was always a classic 80s young computer nerd snob about it.
When I was seven I wrote a LOGO program on our school's Apple IIe to tile the (green monochrome) monitor with hexagons. It's all been downhill since.
A few years ago, I wrote an esoteric, minimalistic turtle graphics language called CFRS[]: https://susam.net/cfrs.html >. This was an exercise in making a turtle graphics language that is as minimal as possible. It is closer to Brainfsck than JavaScript and it is not Turing complete, by design. To see some demos, go to https://susam.github.io/cfrs/demo.html >.
Interesting project. I guess you know Forth as well? :)
I have a Forth-inspired, esoteric, stack-based, postfix, colouring language too: https://susam.net/fxyt.html>
Demos: https://susam.github.io/fxyt/demo.html>
Similar: https://www.dwitter.net/ Where you get 140 characters to draw using code. (Similar as in the resulting pictures reminded me of dwitter)
LOGO lives!
I want to preface this by noting that as an adult, I totally understand the intent behind LOGO, its use as an educational tool, and understand its historic place in computer history. But as a pre-teen kid in the early 80s? I hated LOGO! I thought it was a baby language and I wanted to get back to doing cool stuff in BASIC. Ten year old Me thought LOGO was soooo dumb - you couldn't make a video game, so what use was i…
I have less than zero nostalgia for either.
Can't I slow down the drawing to watch it work?