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?
ANSWER No even when I was down in Virginia it was still the same Eastern Standard Time zone. Now that I'm domiciled in New York City the time difference is the same so its we who are 5 hours ahead?
I used to have a small time zone correction mini program that ran in the background but it seems to have died out. I should get Windows to do it again.
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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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I thought UDG's were unique to Sinclair, I never realised the VIC could do that too. I was vaguely aware that Commodore could handle sprites so I always assumed that UDG's were a Sinclair typical low budget work around!
Mind you his cost cutting actually did us lot of good because it encouraged some ingenious programming such as the single keystroke Basic commands.
I am really so rusty now that I might as well start over again learning Basic from scratch as I no longer can recall what little I knew.
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