Crutch
Well-known member
This for me is like a very tiny holy grail … I’ve been looking for this for years but have never seen it anywhere, so finding it shrink wrapped is a special treat. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you … NIB ExperLogo. I purchased it on eBay recently and it was not cheap, but frankly I probably would have paid ten times as much.
This was a terrific complied Logo platform from ExperTelligence which I used as a young kid circa 1985. I vividly remember how, much like the original Disk Copy, it took over the screen buffer when compiling, filling the screen with random garbage to save memory on a 128k Mac! It also had fantastic turtle (called “bunny” because the system, being compiled, was quite fast) graphics, including 3D and spherical geometry versions, and offered full access to the Mac Toolbox and ROM as well as various LISP-like AI-friendly features (that’s in the ‘80s sense of the term “AI,” of course).
To my knowledge it is not currently preserved on any archival site anywhere (perhaps because it was copy protected). I am really excited to see if the disk inside is good, and if perhaps the copy protection is beatable for preservation purposes. I will take a look this weekend!
This was a terrific complied Logo platform from ExperTelligence which I used as a young kid circa 1985. I vividly remember how, much like the original Disk Copy, it took over the screen buffer when compiling, filling the screen with random garbage to save memory on a 128k Mac! It also had fantastic turtle (called “bunny” because the system, being compiled, was quite fast) graphics, including 3D and spherical geometry versions, and offered full access to the Mac Toolbox and ROM as well as various LISP-like AI-friendly features (that’s in the ‘80s sense of the term “AI,” of course).
To my knowledge it is not currently preserved on any archival site anywhere (perhaps because it was copy protected). I am really excited to see if the disk inside is good, and if perhaps the copy protection is beatable for preservation purposes. I will take a look this weekend!