BBC micro, LOGO and the Turtle

[MarkusDarkus]

Who here is old enough to remember the BBC Micro. And who remembers using LOGO to command the turtle on the floor on a big sheet in the classroom to draw shapes. I stumbled across this article and my childhood came screaming back. :D

Remembering: The BBC Micro

I miss it :cry:

[Dark_ph0enix]

Remember it? I learnt to program on a BBC Micro:

Then from a few years later:

Brilliant lil machine. Unfortunately mine was destroyed when I moved apartments a few years ago - one of these days I'll get another one.

[Lingwo]

In my attic i have a BBC Master, with monitor.

When i was in school, in primary we had one BBC for the entire school, so it was rare we saw it. By the time i got to middle school, they were phasing them out for the Archimedes.

All we used them for was the education adventure games.

On the BBC i used to spend hours on Castle Quest. I still never got out of that jail. I loved Repton too.

[kinetix63 Veteran]

God that doesn't half bring back some memories. I used to love my old BBC Model B.

[MarkusDarkus]

Remember it? I learnt to program on a BBC Micro:

Awesome!!

I am not worthy. :laugh:

[+DKAngel Subscriber²]

we had one in primary school also back in the 80/early 90's was fun playing grannies garden and the wizard of oz on it, ahh memorys good ole logo

[84Mark]

I have mine out on the dining table at the moment. Extra marks if anyone recognises the board game also on display!

[Slugsie]

I have at least 1 BBC B and 1 BBC Master in the loft right now. I also cut my programming teeth on the BBC at school, and an Electron at home after progressing from a ZX80 which I also still have. Great machine, and there is still a thriving support community out there for them.

[jbrooksuk]

I love LOGO.

I made an interpreter in it, using AutoIt V3, check it out :)

[lordofangels]

Elite, hours and hours I spent on that game.

[Aergan]

We had one at primary school that we controlled via arrow keys and a heck of a long serial cable.

[Bhav]

I think I'm on the border of being old enough to remember...because my uncle's BBC Micro was handed down to me.

Remember spending MANY MANY hours playing Chuckie Egg and Repton (one of the cheat codes was terrapin i think lol).

Also remember writing this weird code that would bring up text on multiple colours...that fascinated me for a while lol.

And yep, I remember LOGO at school.