A base speaks in the window, not into the world

Two bugs with one cause. The console draws into the map, so a message
printed while flying was a message the lander then flew over - and
printing scrolls, so every one of them moved the whole world up a row. The
window is at a screen position and forty cells wide, and neither is true
of it.

So the window is two rows now: the gauge, and whatever there is to say.
The letters are ordinary tiles, because the character generator starts at
the space and glyph n is character n less thirty two. The rest of the row
is blanked after every message, or a short one would leave the tail of a
long one behind it.

Opening the throttle wipes the line, because a message that outlived the
moment would be read as describing this one.

The crash still goes to the console, deliberately: it is the last thing
the program says and it should survive the program.

A or Start continues from a message as readily as a key does. Somebody
flying on a controller should not have to reach for the keyboard to say
they have read something.

AND TWO TESTS WENT WITH IT, which is the interesting part. cosmosLanderSoft
and cosmosLanderPadOne asserted on lines in a transcript, and the lines
moved off the console - so both went on passing while checking nothing at
all. A test that asserts a side effect rather than the thing itself is
always one refactor from being decorative. What they were for is now
checked in the picture, where the message actually is.

The lander check moved earlier too. The window grew to two rows, so by 1.5
million cycles the lander had climbed behind the status bar - the window
doing exactly what it should, and leaving the check counting six pixels of
a forty pixel lander.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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### 1. Recorded output
`Tests/run.sh` assembles each program named in `Tests/manifest`, runs it, and compares
everything it printed against a file in `Tests/expected`. 212 tests, of which 150 run, 35
everything it printed against a file in `Tests/expected`. 210 tests, of which 148 run, 35
only assemble, 16 are expected to fail to assemble, and 11 boot from ROM with no image
given at all.