The first version of apple logo could run on any 64k apple ii, although later. Overview program in logo on an apple ii adafruit learning system. It has taken on many forms, appearing on platforms such as the ibm, commodore 64, msx, atari, and apple ii computers. The apple ii had a large user base and was a popular game development platform in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
See here for a list of 16bit apple iigs games there are currently 567 games on this list. Logo is a classic language thats easy to learn, even for young children, and the simple turtle graphics where the child gives. Logo is an educational programming language designed to teach basic concepts. Lego logo was a precursor to scratch programming language acornsoft logo. How to make the apple logo on your iphone light up.
Apple s definitive legal battles here are some of the most important, influential, notable, and even downright silly legal battles that apple has been involved in since. Get the best deals on apple vintage computer manuals and merchandise and find everything youll need to improve your home office setup at. With the release of the ii gs, it became possible for better gui software to be produced. Variants of the apple ii and the logo programming were popular in the 1980s.
Apple then modified the program and included it with as a rudimentary desktop modeled after the macintosh finder for their first versions of prodos 16 system software for the apple ii gs. It was provided on two 16kb roms, with utilities and drivers as accompanying software. Applications, utilities and general purpose software for the apple ii. A key part of the apple ii design is an integral video display generator which diectly accesses the systems programmable memory. To reflect the computers color graphics capability, the apple logo on the casing had rainbow stripes, which remained a part of apple s corporate logo until early 1998. In just a couple years, the independent developer grew from a fourman band to one of the most influential. Swift is a robust and intuitive programming language created by apple for building apps for ios, mac, apple tv, and apple watch. The internet archive software library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released. Apple vintage computer manuals and merchandise for sale ebay. Besides these builtin languages, many others can be loaded in. Programmers guide contributed by michael mischna advanced programming techniques for the iigs toolbox. There is an link to an decent video on using adtpro made by the author of adtpro that i suggest you take a look at.
Saving 500 apple ii programs from oblivion internet. Wherever he went, a line of ink would follow him it came. Programming the 6502 by rodney zaks programming a microcomputer by caxton c. Now on twitter, folks have found the source code for the mit logo program used on apple ii computers, later licensed to terrapin. Magic window one of the most popular apple ii word processors by artsci. The cinderella story of id software is matched by few others in the gaming industry. The apple ii source code for the logo language found. Lego logo was a version of the logo which could manipulate robotic lego bricks attached to a computer. Variants of the apple ii and the logo programming were popular. My introduction to programming was on an old apple ii with basic and logo.
I was in the 6th grade at the time, and never did anything as complex as looping to draw spirals i basically used logo like an etchasketch. This microsoftauthored dialect of basic, which was previously available as an upgrade, supported floatingpoint arithmetic, and became the standard basic dialect on the apple ii series though it ran at a noticeably slower speed than steve wozniaks integer basic. There are several good places on the net to find out about. Logo goes back much earlier than the apple ii, it was developed in 1967 by cynthia solomon, wally feurzig, and. Long before python made it easy to start programming, logo was the language of choice to teach programming concepts to kids. Variants of logo have been used to guide robots and build shit with legos. It supersedes integer basic and is the basic in rom in all apple ii series computers after the original apple ii model. In coding places, yuri takhteyev looks at the work of software. Logo easy educational graphic programming language. I have used, taught, and thourohgly enjoyed the original logo, so i thought. Legos first programmable product, the technic control center 4. I am using apple ii emulation software on my modern windows xp to run this program.
The apple ii source code for the logo language found hacker. A 80s apple ii bbs is running on a real apple iie with real 5. Basic primer diskbased learning aid for basic language pocket guide programming for the apple programming guide to the apple ii synergistic software programming utilities sorting shuffling. Its designed to give developers more freedom than ever. Here you can view and change values in key memory locations and enter machine language routines. Apple computer the apple ii series trademarked with square brackets as apple and rendered on later models as apple is a set of home computers, one of the first highly successful massproduced microcomputer products, designed primarily by steve wozniak, manufactured by apple computer now apple inc.
Because many educational and productivity software programs were specialized. Floppy disk images of apple ii magazines, monthly or occasional issues that would come in disk form with programs and articles. Apple logo for the apple ii plus and apple logo writer for the apple iie, developed by logo computer systems, inc. Screen formatting and cursor controls are realized in my design in the form of about 200 bytes of read only memory which are built into the apple ii s mask programmed 8 k bytes of read only memory. Microsoft produced the z80 softcard for the apple ii enabling it to run cpm and many z80 binary programs. But apple ii fans in the know insist that captain goodnight, a rollicking adventure, is one of the apple ii s. You can read a version of its apple ii manual here.
Swift is easy to use and open source, so anyone with an idea can create something incredible. Applesoft basic is a dialect of microsoft basic, developed by marc mcdonald and ric weiland, supplied with the apple ii series of computers. Logo goes back much earlier than the apple ii, it was developed in 1967 by. It was implemented on the apple ii computing platform and was used in american and other grade schools in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Learn how to program 80sstyle with logo running on an apple ii its turtles all the way down. You should however see the apple ii logo at the top of the screen. Logo programming for the apple ii kansasfest apple ii. Using the jsmess emulator, users can boot up an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. Perhaps most significantly, the apple ii was a catalyst for personal computers across many industries. With a plethora of highend educational software packages to choose from, each with. As i remember it, logo was a triangular turtle that roamed across the monochrome screen of an apple ii in my first grade classroom. Variants of the apple ii and the logo programming were popular in. Available from terrapin software logo and mathematics.
This is a real apple ii bbs, a real bbs with the hardware setup from the beginning 80s the apple, the disks, the clock card a. How did the apple ii forward binary instructions to the. Program in logo on an apple ii adafruit industries. Using downloaded software the ultimate apple ii resource. It is also referred to as fp basic from floating point because of the apple dos command used to invoke it, instead of int for. Quick demo of apple s version of the logo programming language, also know as turtle graphics. And its used by the pros to create the most popular apps for iphone, ipad, mac, apple tv, and apple watch.
Apple ii reference manual from apple computer, 10260 brandley drive, cupertino, ca 95014. Lets take a look at the history behind logo and see what it looked like by setting up an. Lot of apple ii software and manuals beagle brothers programmers aids. Apple ii, apple logo, coding, kids, programming, today in apple history.
It is the nets largest forum for apple ii programmers and programming beginners to ask questions, discuss issues, and share ideas. The apple ii plus, introduced in june 1979, included the applesoft basic programming language in rom. Swift is a programming language created by apple thats as easy to learn as it is powerful to use. This video shows you how to connect your apple ii to a pc using a serial cable and how to bootstrap the apple ii using adtpro. Logo is a programming language that was created in 1967 that was a fairly popular teaching tool in the 80s. From a 2000 interview with chris espinosa conducted for the stanford library. How did the apple ii forward binary instructions to the z80 software card with cpm. Getting started with your apple ii, apple ii integer basic, apple ii firmware, apple ii hardware. After the initial program load, the disk will be formatted. The commands are based on words you already know, like jump and forward. Over the past 35 years there have been many books written about logo learning and programming. Beyond the other two versions available, apple logo came with two large reference manuals with tutorials.