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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why'
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:16:17 +0000
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On 24/03/2025 13:29, Mike S. wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:03:51 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> 
>> I came from Spectrum land and there, as I presume trying to stop people
>> copying tapes was hard, they went down the route of physical things you
>> have to have. Some examples are just typing in certain words from the
>> manual, colour charts (colour photo copiers, not that common) and the
>> most dreaded of all - Lenslock. The was a piece of plastic with a
>> special lens in it that you placed over the screen and then hoped, with
>> as many fingers crossed as you could manage, you could see what you
>> needed to type in to start the game. It was a right PITA as if you
>> actually bought the game then you used this awful method, get a pirate
>> copy and it was likely to be patched out.
> 
> I  watched videos of Lenslock. I personally could not  read the
> numbers on the screen. What an awful copy protection scheme.
> Fortunately, I  never had to deal with it back  in the day.

Oh I did and it was just finicky to get it to work. To rub salt into the 
wound I thought, hang on a sec I've actually paid to buy this thing 
although strictly speaking not really as £10 was by then the anchor 
price for premium games which you can blame Ultimate for with Sabre Wulf.