This is the original version of Toby. It was written for a senior high-school

exit project over the first couple months of 1995.

QuickBASIC 4.5 fan at the time. This is a CRAPPY bit of code.

This is a DOS program, which was built with Microsoft C 7.0 for DOS. I have

spent some effort reimplementing the Microsoft graphics library with SDL so

you can build this on modern systems, but the work isn't nearly complete, and

I didn't want to alter the original code too much, so you still get all the

fun memory corruptions and crashes. Subversion revision #3 is the unmolested

source as I found it several years ago...I think I probably patched it a

little after the end of the project, probably in a failed attempt to make it

a native, 16-bit OS/2 app, but I can't remember. Anything after revision #3

are just simple tweaks, more than a decade later, probably to reduce my shame.

The language syntax is almost entirely LOGO, as the goal was to produce a free

implementation of LOGO, even before I understood the GNU definition of "free",

or that there were GPL'd LOGO packages available. At least this was a DOS one,

since nobody I knew could have used a Unix-based version at the time. :)

I hadn't conceived of designing my own programming language at this point. I

probably thought I wasn't allowed...not by the high school, just generally.

Also, as far LOGOs go, this was just a tiny subset of the language.

History is always ugly.