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Dig Dug

Dig tunnels, inflate enemies with your pump and drop rocks to clear the underground. Collect vegetable bonuses and tackle increasingly challenging levels: Dig Dug joins the Sinclair QL collection.

Dig Dug — The game’s opening title screen.
The game’s opening title screen.
Dig Dug — The first level of the Sinclair QL edition.
The first level of the Sinclair QL edition.

Screens captured directly from the game running in sQLux, displayed in 4:3 proportions.

The QL edition

Computer: Sinclair QL
Graphics: MODE 4, converted from the DOS CGA version
Screenshot configuration: sQLux, 640 KiB RAM
Included files: Dig_Dug.img and Dig_Dug.mdv
Port: Outsoftware, 2026, with ChatGPT and Codex

Loading

Floppy: mount the IMG as flp1_ and run LRUN flp1_boot. Microdrive: mount the MDV as mdv1_ and run LRUN mdv1_boot.

The ZIP contains the IMG and the MDV with compressed loading. Choose the medium that suits your emulator or hardware setup.

Controls: Q up, I down (also A), O left, P right; Space for the pump. Joysticks in ports CTL1 and CTL2. Press 1 or 2 on the title screen to select the number of players.

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