Sam Cruise Contacted!
As you may already know, I’m in the process of remaking the Microsphere classic Contact Sam Cruise. Well, I’ve a little bit more than just new screenshots to show you now – you can download a little playable demo and see how Sam moves around on the PC. Yes, I know it’s in black-and-white – the graphics aren’t what’s being tested here. Cursor keys and CTRL to get around and use the doors.
It’s a Windows thing, folks, so those of you using Linux might run into a few problems. (Or not. I don’t know – everybody’s installation varies, doesn’t it?) If you’d like to tell me how it’s running, that’d be very helpful. There’s a frame rate counter in the top left of the screen that should hover around 40, and it also seems to randomly crash when I hit ‘start’ on the main menu too. Still, it is only a demo, eh?
You can download the demo installer here.
Thanks for doing this. Contact Sam Cruise was one of my absolute most favourite games on the Spectrum… to the point where, bored one weekend, my brother and I attempted to build the entire street from Lego (and got disturbingly far, it has to be said).
Anyway, just had a go with it, but can’t enter doors with Ctrl. Maybe it’s my laptop keyboard? Who can say.
It could be, but that problem’s fixed with the new release, anyway!