FMSLogo

FMSLogo

Screenshot of FMSLogo v6.35.0
Developer(s)	David Costanzo
Initial release	11 October 2005; 18 years ago (2005-10-11)
Stable release	8.3.2 / 5 April 2022; 2 years ago (2022-04-05)
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.

FMSLogo evolved from MSWLogo: 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[edit]

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)

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