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It's labeled "Digger", and I thought for a minute it was http://www.digger.org/ http://www.digger.org/ (Windmill Software's classic)- but no. Both the digger.or
by smallerfish 4y ago
It's labeled "Digger", and I thought for a minute it was http://www.digger.org/ http://www.digger.org/ (Windmill Software's classic)- but no. Both the digger.org ports and the one I've found online (https://www.playdosgames.com/play/digger/# https://www.playdosgames.com/play/digger/#) suffer from inability to properly fullscreen, and also seem less performant than the game originally was. Would love to see those issues ironed out.
- flohofwoe 4y agoThe original game from 1988 was actually called 'Digger', not Boulder Dash (although it clearly draws inspiration from BD), and it was quite legendary in the East German computing scene, because it was one of few very well designed and polished games on the KC85/3. Here's the web page of the original author Alexander Lang (who AFAIK lives in Berlin now): https://web.archive.org/web/20230101011143/https://www.lanale.de/kc85_digger/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230101011143/https://www.lanal...