Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why'

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.