Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Rutherford Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Piracy plastic (was PS2 Pictures) Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 16:51:05 +0000 Organization: The Hex Heroes Lines: 17 Message-ID: <36E55179.6DFC38D8@writeme.com> References: <7bitsm$9he10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <01be65c9$b92082a0$0a3ddec2@sonia> <01be6678$e2edda60$0a3ddec2@sonia> <01be66d8$ca151160$0a3ddec2@sonia> NNTP-Posting-Host: tuna.dai.ed.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) Miles Buzzing wrote: > Does anyone also remember that plastic prism thing that came with Elite (I > think) on the Spectrum. You had to hold it over a randomly generated > pattern on the screen to reveal the code - but it hardly ever bloody > worked! You just had to keep on reloading the game over and over until you > got one you could decode - how we laughed :)) That natty piece of red plastic came with Art Studio as well - can any retro nut remember what it was called? The 'something-lock', I think. It's bugging the hell out of me now... James.