Jolt Country

By the way, last year, Tom Nelson promised us we'd be getting a 35th Anniversary Edition this year.

His two caveats were:

1. Technically he has until the end of 2019 to make it a 35th Anniversary Edition.
2. He didn't promise any specific features/updates for the 35th Anniversary Edition.

I have made one request for the 35th Anniversary Edition:

In the current edition, if you fumble-finger a command, or type an incorrect command, it costs you a turn. So you had an incoming torpedo, and you wanted to reinforce your rear-facing shield, so you typed "reni 6" instead of "rein 6" (for "reinforce 6"), and it says something like "I don't know 'reni'." -- and then a turn passes, and the torpedo hits you, and your un-reinforced rear shield collapses, and you die. My one request for the 35th Anniversary Edition was: Typos shouldn't cost you a turn.

Here are my hopes, expectations, and fears for the 35th Anniversary Edition:

WHAT I HOPE: He at least does that one thing I asked, which I feel is probably a one-line code change.
WHAT I EXPECT: Nothing.
WHAT I FEAR: Well, so far the Begin 2 source was wiped out, the Begin 3 wiki was wiped out, so I assume everything associated with the game will get wiped out for the 35th Anniversary.

Well, we got another Begin on the wrong thing, pal!

That's not where Begin goes!!

I can take a better picture. Does "BEGIN2.exe" have anything like graphics, like a radar screen or something?

It does.

I mean, Begin 1 also has a radar screen, the ships are just two-character text indicators instead of triangles.

Begin 1.65, running in DOSBox, which is running in Ubuntu, which is running in Windows ("Windows Subsystem for Linux".)

Naturally you can skip the Ubuntu part, but then you would be playing Begin on the right thing, which is not the subject of this thread.

If you have a 3DS lying around, you can try it there too. Though the controls might be somewhat troublesome.