One of the interesting quirks of the ZX Spectrum version of Manic Miner was that some of its graphics changed between the original version of the game, published under the Bug-Byte brand, and the version published by Software Projects, a company set up by Matthew Smith after leaving Bug-Byte. While, obviously, The Lower Caverns was always intended to have as full a graphical refresh as I could produce, there were events during the development period that directly shaped some aspects of the visuals. Not least of these was that, back in 2019, the decision was made to apply the Entropy brand to the game. Entropy was/is a coding group, founded by a prolific SAM coder. While Entropy might now be most notorious for the much-discussed, never-to-be-seen megademo Statues of Ice , its output included plenty of utilities and code routines, encryption and copy protection for commercial software, as well as music and menus for disk magazines. Once upon a time, I had put together some graphics ...