VTech Genio 6000 Logo Programming Language

One of the things that I found most interesting about the VTech Genio 6000 is the LOGO programming language. I always liked turtle graphics.

So under "Personal Office" there are 3 different levels of LOGO examples: beginner, intermediate and advanced.



And after choosing "LOGO advanced" we get 3 different example programs:



I'll choose FLOWER.LGO and it starts drawing the flower. It's kind of slow at drawing taking around 10 seconds.



To edit the program, take the mouse and hover over the edit icon and click.



It's even got balloon help.



Or you can type edit in the command line.



And our flower program.



I'll type out the flower program here as it doesn't fit in a screencap of 5 lines x 20 columns.

to rarc
repeat 15 [right 4 forward 1.3]
end
to larc
repeat 15 [left 4 forward 1.3]
end
to petal
repeat 2 [rarc right 120]
end
to flower
penup window
forward -2 pendown
repeat 6 [petal right 60]
back 15
end


(actually a typo here in the procedure larc which I've fixed, the FLOWER.LGO program says right 4. I suppose it doesn't matter since the example program doesn't call larc)



I had to refresh my memory of LOGO with keywords like pots (print out procedure titles). If you type pots, it will list the procedure names one by one, and you have to press the space bar to continue to the next line as it will only display one line of text.

Searching the internet for VTech LOGO I found a manual for another VTech unit that's extremely similar to the Genio 6000 called the Power Zone Plus Desktop. The Power Zone Plus keyboard is English whereas the Genio 6000 is in Spanish.



The manual has a very good LOGO reference starting at page 25 (page 33 inside the PDF due to the table of contents).

https://www.vtechkids.com/assets/data/products/%7BFF036CC0-0F40-4808-83CD-87F8E2480A4B%7D/manuals/PowerZone_Plus_Desktop.pdf


I just learned how to create a URL to point at a specific page in the PDF, just add #page=XX to the end of the URL.


https://www.vtechkids.com/assets/data/products/%7BFF036CC0-0F40-4808-83CD-87F8E2480A4B%7D/manuals/PowerZone_Plus_Desktop.pdf#page=33