If I said 'Lenslok' how many commanders would smile...

[bigmuthatrukka]

I remember them. I also remember the "magic button" device that would dump the entire memory of a Spectrum into a micro drive and the CPUs registers *after* getting past it and then reload it all so your games could carry on from where you left off. I never needed the Lenslock again.

Ahh the good old Kempston interface with Game cartridge

 

[Stormprooter]

I still have mine, I fondly recall not being able to make head or tail of the 2 character code after many hours fiddling the size and so on. 3 attempts and then the old speccy would reset, load the game again (8 minutes).
I also have the original box, cassette, manual, keyboard overlays, copy of "The Dark Wheel" and everything else.
IIRC I paid £12.99 in 1986 for it - took me a few weeks of saving up money from my paper round

 

[gngr29]

I remember it well - waiting for the speccy to load up.........for ages........then not being able to make any sense of the character code! Failure, reload. I hated it SO MUCH.

 

[Frank]

I had a large blurry telly. Using the Lenslok was the most terrifying part of the game. I learned afterwards that the pirate versions of Elite didn't have to suffer this ordeal. That made me feel like a mug for being honest. I guess that the Lenslok was where my hatred of anti-piracy and DRM sprang from. If Frontier had been a little more honest about its DRM I would have thought twice about backing the Kickstarter.

 

[EdzUp]

Quite many methinks.

And the smile might be with gritted teeth too...

...and know what I was talking about?

EDIT: the correct spelling was 'lenslok'

Ah remember those

Worst ones was enter the word on page x line y word z

 

[OrionUK]

I remember LensLok with the Spectrum 48K Elite game. I don't remember ever getting it correct on the first go.

Anyone remember Manic Miner with the picture card matrix? You were given co ordinates and then had to enter the right colour codes or something. Just what you wanted after waiting 30mins or so for the game to load.

 

[cherbert]

Anyone remember Manic Miner with the picture card matrix?

I think you will find that was Jet Set Willy.

 

[Samosa]

........

 

[OrionUK]

I think you will find that was Jet Set Willy.

You know at 43 my memory is not what it used to be!

 

[Samosa]

Has everyone seen this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Bedrooms_to_Billions

It's really quite interesting. Very weird seeing people like Matthew Smith and Jeff Minter after all these years.

 

[Steve50]

Smile.. At lenslok?

Heck no.. I hated that thing, it only worked once every 3-4 attempts. Thank god the BBC and C64 versions didn't have that.