#lenslok

[jecepede]

#LensLok is the oldest form of physical #CopyProtection. When loading The Price Of Magic from #Level9Computing, you'll have to press the folded plastic lens against the screen to decrypt two letters from some garbage pixels before you can continue... #Retro #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #RetroGame #Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #C64c #ZxSpectrum #Zx https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfM58xgxsc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kinsie]

Long before Elite: Dangerous, there was the original Elite, which rapidly scattered to every computer and microcomputer of the era. And where there was the ZX Spectrum version of Elite, there was Lenslok, a curious piece of physical DRM that caused an awful lot of grief with unsuspecting players (especially since the first shipment included the wrong lens!) and has long since been cracked, hacked out and even emulated.

(Is this on consultyourcodewheel, spindleyq?)