I have to sometimes deal with our NY office, so I tend to remember they get into work about lunchtime UK (give or take an hour). Aren't you a fair bit further in?
In my early days of computing I use to love creating UDGs and getting them on the screen. Sometimes that would extend to a small magazine type game. This was all on the VIC (around 1982/3) and I typed in a UDG designer from Your Computer and I never looked back. It was a simple program but made editing 8x8 cells easy and had little extras like flip and rotate. This allowed the redesign of 32-127 asciis, same way as the spectrum by poking a couple of system variables.
One of my first spectrum programs was a random landscape by drawing lines to make mountains across the screen, and a two frame dino made out of a single UDG, walking across from left to right. Probably made a beep or two as well.
It sounds like a good way to keep the brain ticking over Mike. The boat sounds quite neat, I think you should screen grab and publish some here. It'll give you an aim to work at and something to do on the good days.
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