Is it possible to enable console commands for the GOG version of Afterlight? I found the instructions where you add a line in the shortcut file, but I've done that and edited the executable in GOG itself, and the console command still won't appear.

You have a bit missing in the command line there. Just before "enable_system_control" you have to also put "--options", so it should look like "--options enable_system_control=true". I've got it currently working with the console on anoher PC, I'll copy & paste the command line I used later.

Edit: Ok, I just do NOT understand this. The above is now not working for me neither. But on a different PC! So is it something "PC specific" that causing problems? Alt-tabbing isn't working neither in UFO:AL, I'm sure it did on the other PC. There's NO mistakes in that command line I gave, and yes that double "-" IS correct.

So it's still more advice and help needed. Which isn't going to arrive any time soon as this is a very dead board indeed. And maybe except for Steam's UFO:AL boards, there's nowhere else to go for help!

OH WAIT A COTTON PICKING MO! I've put "control" instead of "console".

Ok, embarassing though it is, I'm leaving this an example of just how SHIT the human brain is. In fact, try Googling "the brain is shit", I wonder if that old site is still there? How we ever got anywhere with this piece of shit that we've been "gifted" I just do not know! All the usual tropes about it being "a miracle organ", or the "most complex, astounding entity in the known universe", well those can just fk-off!