* PLATO ( Package for Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals ), a computational chemistry software package

COCONET's bitmap and vector graphics and support for multiple type fonts were inspired by the PLATO system, and the graphics capabilities were based on what was available in the Borland BGI graphics library.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

He implemented the first computerised version of it in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978.

Some features of Rogue existed in earlier games, notably: Adventure ( 1975 ), Dungeon ( 1975 ), DND / Telengard ( 1976 ), Beneath Apple Manor ( 1978 ), and several written for the PLATO system, such as the multi-user games dnd ( 1975 ) and Moria ( 1975 ).

PLATO was remarkably innovative for its time ; the shared memory model of PLATO's TUTOR programming language allowed applications such as real-time chat and multi-user graphical games.

PLATO ( Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation ) is one example of how computers began to be integrated into instruction.

Following a convention established by the PLATO dungeon games Moria, Avatar and Oubliette, it was the first game for home computers to adapt the now-familiar WASD set of keys for moving forward and turning left and right ( the S was not used for movement ; it updated the status display ).

In 1974 they reached an agreement with CDC to allow CDC to sell PLATO in exchange for free machines on which to run it.

COROT is the first spacecraft dedicated to the detection of transiting extrasolar planets, opening the way for more advanced probes such as Kepler and possibly TESS and PLATO.

The first interactive game to feature a boss was dnd, a 1975 role-playing video game for the PLATO system.

Netrek is largely derived from Empire, written for the PLATO mainframe system beginning in 1973.

* apronym: a word, which as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym ; such as PLATO for " Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching " alluding to Plato, the philosopher and teacher

* Empire ( PLATO ), a 1973 space battle game for the PLATO system

The description of Baker's Game in the " Mathematical Games " column inspired Paul Alfille to create FreeCell and he coding it for the PLATO educational computer system, which ended up becoming more popular than Baker's Game.

PLATO ( Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations ) was the first ( ca.

Originally, PLATO was built by the University of Illinois and functioned for four decades, offering coursework ( elementary – university ) to UIUC students, local schools, and other universities.

It included a television set for display and a special keyboard for navigating the system's function menus ; PLATO II, in 1961, featured two users at once.

In 1972 a new system named PLATO IV was ready for operation.

A standard Keyboard ( computing ) | keyboard for a PLATO IV terminal, circa 1976.

At this time they were shown parts of the system such as the Show Display application generator for pictures on PLATO ( later translated into a graphics-draw program on the Xerox Star workstation ), and the Charset Editor for " painting " new characters ( later translated into a " Doodle " program at PARC ), and the Term Talk and Monitor Mode communications program.

The PLATO project, initiated at the University of Illinois in 1960, is an important landmark in the early development of CALL ( Marty 1981 ).

Netrek is essentially a greatly expanded version of Empire, a multi-user space combat game that ran on the PLATO.

Atari, Inc had a PLATO account and Panther is said to be the origin of Battlezone while airfight led up to Sublogic's Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The PLATO software used on Cyber1 is the final release ( 99A ) of CYBIS, by permission of VCampus.

The load average of this resurrected system is about 10-15 users, sending personal and notesfile notes, and playing inter-terminal games such as Avatar and Empire ( a star-trek like game ), which had both accumulated more than 1. 0 million contact hours on the original PLATO system at UIUC.

He was the co-inventor of the plasma display, is largely regarded as the " father of PLATO ", and has made a career of improving classroom productivity by using computer and telecommunications technologies.

The creation of the PLATO computer system, the first system to combine graphics and touch-sensitive screens, is the hallmark of his efforts.

PLATO is a code, written in C, for the efficient modelling of materials.

How PLATO does its calculations is summarised in several papers.

PLATO was not connected to internet predecessor ArpaNet in any way that allowed mass use by the public, and consequently, chess3 was and still is relatively unknown to the public.

The Intel 8080 microprocessors in these terminals made them capable of executing programs locally, much like today's Java applets and ActiveX controls, and allowed small software modules to be downloaded into the terminal to augment to the PLATO courseware with rich animation and other sophisticated capabilities that were not available otherwise using a traditional terminal-based approach.

PLATO IV offered text, graphics and animation as intrinsic components of courseware content, and included a shared-memory construct (" common " variables ) that allowed TUTOR programs to send data between various users.

Many of the students who used PLATO in the 1970s and 1980s felt a special social bond with the community of users who came together using the powerful communications tools ( talk programs, records systems and notesfiles ) on PLATO.

For many of the Madadeni students, most of whom came from very rural areas, the PLATO terminal was the first time they encountered any kind of electronic technology.

This game, along with the companion program RobotWrite, was originally developed in the TUTOR programming language language on the PLATO system in the 1970s.

Although PLATO was designed for computer-based education, many consider its most enduring legacy was to be the online community spawned by its communication features.

PLATO was designed and built by the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia to provide a platform from which astronomical observations and site-testing could be conducted.

Allen designed Mordor after a late-1970s multi-user dungeon game named Avatar, which ran on the PLATO system developed by the University of Illinois.

* Airfight, 1974, a 3-D flight simulator written for PLATO by Brand Fortner ; this probably inspired UIUC student Bruce Artwick to start subLOGIC which was acquired and later became Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The dnd video game was written in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO system by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood at Southern Illinois University in 1974 and 1975.

dnd was likely the third dungeon crawl game written for PLATO.

A similar game also named DND and using many of the unique features of the original PLATO dnd was written in BASIC by Daniel Lawrence for the PDP-10 and released around 1977.