Manic Miner/Trivia


  • Manic Miner was developed on a TRS-80 and transferred to a Speccy for testing via a custom cable made by its author, Matthew Smith. (This was a fairly common development practice at the time, though probably not that common or he wouldn't have had to make his own cable.)
    • Rumour has it that at least one of his games was developed this way and then transferred to Sinclair's development rig, which Smith managed to rent for a weekend, just before the Speccy was launched. None of his games was ready for the Speccy's launch date though, allegedly because of duplication and publishing lead times.
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