Controls : Use cursor keys Up, Down, Left and
Right to navigate Digger. F1 to fire. Space to
pause. F10 to return to the title screen. + to increase
the game speed by 5. - to decrease the game speed by 5. If keys
don't work, click on the game to give it the focus.
The game : Eat
emeralds, collect gold and avoid monsters. Emerald (): 25 points. Eight consecutive
emeralds: Extra 250 points. Gold (): 500 points. Killing a Nobbin () or a Hobbin () : 250 points. Bonus (): 1,000 points. (In bonus mode)
Eating a Nobbin or a Hobbin is 200 points for first, 400 for 2nd, etc. (doubling
each time) - still 250 for other methods of killing (shooting or hitting with
bag of gold). At every multiple of 20,000 points you get an extra life.
History : Digger was originally created by Windmill software (original
autor Rob Sleath) in 1983. Andrew Jenner rewrote the game as Digger Remastered and
released it under GNU GPL. The Digger Remastered was ported to Java by Marek Futrega.