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The Appearance of Seaworthiness
Years ago, I used to deliver yachts during the summer holidays. It was a great way to get a cheap holiday and explore a new place every night. We would sail the yacht Sea Tramp from its home on the Hamble to wherever most people wanted to charter it from over the summer, which could be Cornwall, the Channel Islands or Brittany, for example.
Z80 Quality Indicators
I’m 78% through my annotated disassembly of Tehkan’s arcade game Star Force and I was just wondering what quality indicators other people use to rate Z80 code that they read? What makes you nod in satisfaction, or sneer in disapproval?
A Map Reading Session
I had offered to teach an evening of map reading with the local training ship of the Nautical Training Corps. This had come about after leading them on an evening walk from Woodingdean to Rottingdean windmill during the summer, with them carrying maps, and me explaining what we were seeing along the way, such as a local trig point and tumuli and the windmill itself, on Beacon Hill.