Crack intro
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A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user of which "cracking crew" or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy protection and distributing the crack.[1] They first appeared in the early 1980s[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Amateur coders busy cracking the copy-protection on the latest Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum games got into the habit of marking their work with an animated intro - or "cracktro" - inserted before the game began." http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=291159
- ^ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/democoders.html
[edit] External links
- World of C64 Crackintros – A large collection of C64 cracktros in native "prg" file format (supported by most C64 emulators)
- Defacto2 – Hundreds of cracktros, loaders and installers for the PC
- Amiga Music Preservation – Thousands of crack intro musics in all tracker format.
