A blast from the past!
I must be one of the few people who never had much of an issue with the Lenslok. The key was not to get hung up on the futility of actually folding the thing or trying to use the scaling bars. It was much easier just to hold it in front of the screen and move both it and your head to achieve a sort of three-way parallax effect until the characters resolved.
Clever though it was, two things did for it in the end. Firstly it was not nearly as unique as the creators claimed; the Lensloks for Tomahawk and Art Studio were more or less interchangeable once you knew exactly how to squint, so you could buy one then rip off the other.
(To be fair, Elite's Lenslok was nearly impossible to use with either of the other titles, so it sort of worked).
The second problem, really the final nail in the coffin, was the advent of those hardware devices that let you POKE individual memory locations or save out the entire RAM to cassette. With one of those you could either bypass the protection routine with an early RET or just snapshot the software after the code had been entered.
Apparently the Lenslok makes a cameo appearance of sorts in Gideon Defoe's Docking Is Difficult, that's how iconic it is.
I must be one of the few people who never had much of an issue with the Lenslok. The key was not to get hung up on the futility of actually folding the thing or trying to use the scaling bars. It was much easier just to hold it in front of the screen and move both it and your head to achieve a sort of three-way parallax effect until the characters resolved.
Clever though it was, two things did for it in the end. Firstly it was not nearly as unique as the creators claimed; the Lensloks for Tomahawk and Art Studio were more or less interchangeable once you knew exactly how to squint, so you could buy one then rip off the other.
(To be fair, Elite's Lenslok was nearly impossible to use with either of the other titles, so it sort of worked).
The second problem, really the final nail in the coffin, was the advent of those hardware devices that let you POKE individual memory locations or save out the entire RAM to cassette. With one of those you could either bypass the protection routine with an early RET or just snapshot the software after the code had been entered.
Apparently the Lenslok makes a cameo appearance of sorts in Gideon Defoe's Docking Is Difficult, that's how iconic it is.
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