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Diggers full manual in PDF |
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filecore (19:25 12/9/2010)
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Hokum (15:33 20/9/2010)
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andypoole (18:38 20/9/2010)
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Jason Togneri |
Message #115354, posted by filecore at 19:25, 12/9/2010 |
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I spent a couple of years playing almost nothing but Diggers when I first got it, and by the end I knew the game by heart. A cracking experience and one that still holds up against the onslaught of generic FPS and RTS war games that we see today. A game about mining for minerals? One of your most useful upgrades is a self-inflating rubber boat? How can that possibly be exciting? Ah, what the kids of today are missing out on...
http://www.filecore.net/riscos/games/diggers/DiggersManual.pdf |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #115355, posted by Phlamethrower at 20:49, 12/9/2010, in reply to message #115354 |
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I spent a couple of years playing almost nothing but Diggers when I first got it, and by the end I knew the game by heart. A cracking experience and one that still holds up against the onslaught of generic FPS and RTS war games that we see today. A game about mining for minerals? One of your most useful upgrades is a self-inflating rubber boat? How can that possibly be exciting? Ah, what the kids of today are missing out on... There's always Dwarf Fortress, although the lack of any goal beyond simple survival doesn't make it an ideal gameplay experience. |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #115399, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:55, 18/9/2010, in reply to message #115355 |
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And also Delve Deeper, which looks like a cross between a high-res diggers and a turn-based RPG combat engine. |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #115400, posted by monkeyson2 at 11:42, 18/9/2010, in reply to message #115354 |
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I spent a couple of years playing almost nothing but Diggers when I first got it, and by the end I knew the game by heart. A cracking experience and one that still holds up against the onslaught of generic FPS and RTS war games that we see today. A game about mining for minerals? One of your most useful upgrades is a self-inflating rubber boat? How can that possibly be exciting? Ah, what the kids of today are missing out on...
http://www.filecore.net/riscos/games/diggers/DiggersManual.pdf Thanks for this. I loved Diggers. |
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Simon Willcocks |
Message #115401, posted by Stoppers at 13:43, 18/9/2010, in reply to message #115354 |
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Are there any screenshots around? |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #115402, posted by filecore at 15:33, 18/9/2010, in reply to message #115401 |
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Short clip, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PrCqWYKoE |
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Simon Willcocks |
Message #115403, posted by Stoppers at 15:54, 18/9/2010, in reply to message #115402 |
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Short clip, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PrCqWYKoE That's nicer than a screenshot (I'm so 20th century), thanks. |
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Paul Gibbs |
Message #115418, posted by Hokum at 15:33, 20/9/2010, in reply to message #115354 |
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Anywhere to buy this still? |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #115423, posted by filecore at 17:42, 20/9/2010, in reply to message #115418 |
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Not a clue, I'm afraid. You'd pretty much have to keep an eye on eBay for collections of old RO games, or else places like this site's Free Ads. Neither CJE or APDL seem to have it in stock. I have a feeling that it was originally a port, however, so perhaps you can find it for some other platform and emulate it... |
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Andrew Poole |
Message #115426, posted by andypoole at 18:38, 20/9/2010, in reply to message #115423 |
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Not a clue, I'm afraid. You'd pretty much have to keep an eye on eBay for collections of old RO games, or else places like this site's Free Ads. Neither CJE or APDL seem to have it in stock. I have a feeling that it was originally a port, however, so perhaps you can find it for some other platform and emulate it... ^this.
The DOS version is floating round on plenty of Abandonware sites (Like this). This and a copy of DOSBox (of which there is a RISC OS version, but probably best not to expect much performance out of it unless you're using an Iyonix or later..), and you'll be good to go. |
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Philip Webster |
Message #115661, posted by pwx at 10:35, 18/10/2010, in reply to message #115426 |
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Ah, Diggers. Spent many hours on this one - it's probably my favourite game on the Arc, after Elite, apocalypse and Paradroid 2000. OK, not my favourite. But still a good game.
Shame the sequel (Xtractors) never came out.
I believe 'copies' of Diggers for RISC OS are floating about on the Web. I have a 'proper' copy of this as well, boxed. Not sure how rare it is - it was released around the same time as the RiscPC (it was on the coverdisk of the issue of Acorn Computing that revealed the RiscPC 600). I would hope that with the publicity it got that it would have sold a few copies.
Saw it on ebay a few times, years ago. I wouldn't pay over the odds for it. |
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