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The Lenslok LensLok is a device which was used on several titles to prevent pirating. The device resembles a small plastic card with two folding edges and a plexi-glass lens / window in the centre. The general idea was that when the game or application had loaded, a scrambled code would be displayed on the screen, which could only be decyphered using the lens. The system was extremely difficult to use on the original CPC monitors and trying to use it on a TV / MP1 / 2 setup was totally pointless.

A few notes from a user whose favourite game (Tomahawk) was ruined by the ordeal of having to go through this rediculous ridiculous ritual every time I wanted to play the game. Firstly, if you were one of those lucky children who were greeted by a 6128 under the Christmas tree sometime in the mid 80's then I'm very happy for you, I wasn't one of those. So loading Tomahawk already meant sitting for 58 minutes in front of the CPC waiting for it to load (the first few attempts at loading the game usually ended in a load error 20 seconds before it was completed!!!), after that, it was a 20 minute battle with a fiddly piece of plastic, trying to recognise two stupid letters. If I wanted to play the game on a TV, I had to carry my GT64 into the living room too, because the LensLok was impossible on a jittering modulated TV screen. Many failed attempts and asking my brother to 'have a go' at recognising the letters usually ended in total frustration and I ended up playing Jet-Set-Willy instead. This was a terrible invention which never should have happened. I hope the inventor of this device, whose only goal was to torment small children, ended up working in the sewers...