blank answer enables all SST2K features. Given a year, it will disable
features not implemented in that year or earlier. The year
'1973' approximated the original CDC 6600 FORTRAN game from UT Austin.
-Here is a mapping of years to features:
+Here is a mapping of years to features:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>1974</term>
-<listitem>Planets and dilithium mining</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Planets and dilithium mining</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1979</term>
-<listitem>Tholians and their webs, supercommanders.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Tholians and their webs, supercommanders.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1980</term>
-<listitem>Deep-space probes.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Deep-space probes.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1981</term>
-<listitem>Bad guys do tactical movement.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bad guys do tactical movement.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1982</term>
-<listitem>Bad guys can ram you.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Bad guys can ram you.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1997</term>
-<listitem>Death ray gets an upgrade.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Death ray gets an upgrade.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1998</term>
-<listitem>Automatic generation of self-destruct password.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Automatic generation of self-destruct password.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2004</term>
-<listitem>Upgraded shields for bases, and chance of time-waeping through a black hole.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Upgraded shields for bases, and chance of time-waeping through a black hole.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2005</term>
-<listitem>Our ship is bracketed in the chart/</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
+<listitem><para>Our ship is bracketed in the chart/</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2006</term>
-<listitem>Logic for inhabited worlds and Klingon captures.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Logic for inhabited worlds and Klingon captures.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2007</term>
-<listitem>Automatically update the long-range scan when displaying the chart.</listitem>
-</varlistentry><varlistentry>
+<listitem><para>Automatically update the long-range scan when displaying the chart.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2010</term>
-<listitem>Use color in interface.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Use color in interface.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
<term>2013</term>
-<listitem>Defeated Klingons can be captured.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Defeated Klingons can be captured.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2014</term>
-<listitem>The cloaking device.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>The cloaking device.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2019</term>
-<listitem>Consistent dot-filling in the galaxy chart.</listitem>
+<listitem><para>Consistent dot-filling in the galaxy chart.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2023</term>
-<listitem>Alphameric coordinates.</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
+<listitem><para>Alphameric coordinates.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
10 . . . . . . . . . . Time Left 3.72
</screen>
-In fancy mode, the display will use letters for Y coordinates.
+<para>In fancy mode, the display will use letters for Y coordinates.</para>
<screen>
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
<para> If your game is in "fancy" mode, there ia a way to input
coordinates that avoids any need to remember thet the Y coordinate
comes first. Y values may be given as lowercase letters starting with
-a = 1. So for example:
+a = 1. So for example:</para>
<screen>
a1 = 1 - 1
f2 = 6 - 2
</screen>
-The previous move xommand could be expressed as
+<para>The previous move xommand could be expressed as</para>
<screen>
m a c7 e8
<para>to aim between two sectors. However, sector numbers must be 1 to 10
inclusive.</para>
-<para>In fancy mode, you can write "PHO 3 2 6 1 10 4 7" as
+<para>In fancy mode, you can write "PHO 3 2 6 1 10 4 7" as</para>
<screen>
pho 3 b6 a10 d7
</screen>
-Fractional Y coordinates are not supported.
+<para>Fractional Y coordinates are not supported.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Dock at Starbase</title>