Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo Path: news.media.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!chaos.dac.neu.edu!random.ccs.northeastern.edu!neuwirth From: neuwirth@ccs.neu.edu (Erich Neuwirth) Subject: Re: Amiga Logo implementations Message-ID: <1994Feb13.004102.25735@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> Sender: news@random.ccs.northeastern.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pinatubo.ccs.neu.edu Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <1994Feb10.020349.5519@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au> <1994Feb12.031105.8270@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 00:41:02 GMT Lines: 40 David Benn (dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au) wrote: : In article , geb@halcyon.com (Gary E. Bloom) writes: : >One of the great Logos was commissioned by Commodore and written for the : >Amiga--Amiga TLC Logo. According to rumor (actually TLC author, John : >Allen), Commodore buried it because it was not compatible with the other : >Logos of the time. The very first issue of Amiga World (or perhaps the : >second) interviewed Allen. Also, the first book on Amiga programming, by : >Que, carried a description of Amiga TLC Logo. some months ago i was able to talk commodore austria into donating a copy of amiga logo (they still had one, including the docs) to my department back in vienna. so you might ask C= if they still have some copies left. : The only C= Logo I have had any experience with is that produced for the : C64. It was pretty good for it's time. : This version was written by Leigh Klotz, Jr. Also involved were Andy Finkel : of C= and a number of people from Terrapin. It's also interesting to note : that the MIT 6502 version was developed by Leigh Klotz Jr. et al under the : supervision of Prof. Harold Abelson of SICP fame. C64 logo really was nice. it even brought with it a 6502 assembler written in logo. i used that to implement interface software for controlling fischertechnik robots with the 64 using logo. this is pd, by the way. so if somebody still needs it, it is available. -- Erich Neuwirth neuwirth@ccs.neu.edu (normally neuwirth@smc.univie.ac.at) College of Computer Science, Northeastern University Boston MA 02115 Tel (617)373-2462