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Digger – Back and Digitally Remastered (1998)

27 points by susam 4y ago

pfdietz 4y ago
Not the Ursula Vernon comic.
drdec 4y ago
> This site was The 80s Server's "Totally Awesome site of the day" on January 25th, 1999. Is it strange that this makes me smile? Double nostalgia I guess.
bitwize 4y ago
A Nobbin from Digger appears in one of the text scrolls in the Area 5150 demo. That made me smile.
lxe 4y ago
I had this game on a 5 inch floppy for a soviet IBM clone Elektronika EC 1841
kodah 4y ago
Does this have any relation to Dig Dug[1]? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug
- Firehawke 4y ago
  It's more of a direct clone of Mr. Do.
Dwedit 4y ago
I actually tried this out an a 286 CGA laptop. This 286 let you run in either Fast Mode, or Slow Mode (~4.7Mhz), and there was a keyboard command that switched between the two modes. When you ran the machine in slow mode, the music played funny. Music was playing at the same tempo, but the volume decays of the instrument were happening more slowly, making the instruments sound very different. Also the game ran slightly more slowly. So there might be a tiny bit of overhead compared with the original version of the game. Might need to upgrade to full 286 speed.
susam 4y ago
This game plays the "Popcorn" tune as the background music. It is quite catchy! To listen to the background music, play the original 1983 PC Booter version of this game here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Digger_1983_1983 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Digger_1983_1983 It took me some time to find an MP3 of the original Popcorn music. Finally found a copy of it archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903025158/http://www.popcornsong.com/files/mp3/popcorn.mp3 https://web.archive.org/web/20000903025158/http://www.popcor... The MP3 above was available at the Popcorn website which has now disappeared but we can visit archived copies of the website at: http://web.archive.org/web/20001013001516/http://www.popcornsong.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20001013001516/http://www.popcorn...
mithr 4y ago
Haven't thought about Digger in decades. As soon as I saw the title, the music started playing in my head... funny how that works.
asyncscrum 4y ago
Worked for the company that made this game many many years after they got out of gaming. For years we got calls about it. Sometimes licenced it to other developers for nothing. We had some cool Japanese packaging and artwork from that era. The guy that did the sound turned into a great .net dev and we built several cool products together that ran for 15 years without maintenance.
s369610 4y ago
Simpler but slower times: "Please be patient. The applet is 46K long."

27 points by susam 4y ago

Not the Ursula Vernon comic.

> This site was The 80s Server's "Totally Awesome site of the day" on January 25th, 1999. Is it strange that this makes me smile? Double nostalgia I guess.

bitwize 4y ago

A Nobbin from Digger appears in one of the text scrolls in the Area 5150 demo. That made me smile.

lxe 4y ago

I had this game on a 5 inch floppy for a soviet IBM clone Elektronika EC 1841

kodah 4y ago

Does this have any relation to Dig Dug[1]? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug

Firehawke 4y ago
It's more of a direct clone of Mr. Do.

Dwedit 4y ago

I actually tried this out an a 286 CGA laptop. This 286 let you run in either Fast Mode, or Slow Mode (~4.7Mhz), and there was a keyboard command that switched between the two modes. When you ran the machine in slow mode, the music played funny. Music was playing at the same tempo, but the volume decays of the instrument were happening more slowly, making the instruments sound very different. Also the game ran slightly more slowly. So there might be a tiny bit of overhead compared with the original version of the game. Might need to upgrade to full 286 speed.

susam 4y ago

This game plays the "Popcorn" tune as the background music. It is quite catchy! To listen to the background music, play the original 1983 PC Booter version of this game here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Digger_1983_1983 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Digger_1983_1983 It took me some time to find an MP3 of the original Popcorn music. Finally found a copy of it archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903025158/http://www.popcornsong.com/files/mp3/popcorn.mp3 https://web.archive.org/web/20000903025158/http://www.popcor... The MP3 above was available at the Popcorn website which has now disappeared but we can visit archived copies of the website at: http://web.archive.org/web/20001013001516/http://www.popcornsong.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20001013001516/http://www.popcorn...

mithr 4y ago

Haven't thought about Digger in decades. As soon as I saw the title, the music started playing in my head... funny how that works.

asyncscrum 4y ago

Worked for the company that made this game many many years after they got out of gaming. For years we got calls about it. Sometimes licenced it to other developers for nothing. We had some cool Japanese packaging and artwork from that era. The guy that did the sound turned into a great .net dev and we built several cool products together that ran for 15 years without maintenance.

s369610 4y ago

Simpler but slower times: "Please be patient. The applet is 46K long."