Atari LOGO
Developer Software developer A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management... :	LCSI
Latest Release:	N/A
Release date:	1983
Platform:	Atari 400/800/XL/XE Atari 8-bit family The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips...
Genre Computer and video game genres Video game genres are used to categorize video games based on their gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences. A video game genre is defined by a set of gameplay challenges. They are classified independent of their setting or game-world content, unlike other works of fiction... :	Programming Language Programming language A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
Media:	cartridge
License:	Copyright © 1983 LCSI

Atari LOGO was a programming language for the Atari 8-bit computers.

Atari LOGO was developed by Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI) in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Since LCSI wrote Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

 Logo, the Atari version maintained strong compatibility with it. Atari LOGO also featured commands that supported the Atari 8-bit enhanced graphics and sound. Some notable features included 4 simultaneous drawing turtles, turtles that looked like actual turtles instead of triangles, redefinable turtle shapes, and collision detection in the form of an event handler.

Available in a 16kB ROM cartridge, tutorial and reference manual.

External links

• Antic Vol.2, No.6 - Review of Atari LOGO