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A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, is a small introduction added to cracked software, designed to inform the user which "cracking crew" or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy protection and distributing the crack.
These first appeared on Apple II and Commodore 64 games that were distributed around the world. Initially they were simple messages, but they grew progressively more complex as the programmers from each cracking crew attempted to show how much more talented they were to other programmers in other groups.
As a result, crack intros began to feature big colourful effects, music, and scrollers. Cracking groups would use the intros not just to gain credit for cracking, but to advertise their BBSes, greet friends, and to give themselves recognition. Messages were frequently of a vulgar nature, and on some occasions made threats of violence against software companies.
Cracktro programming eventually became an art form in its own right, and people started coding intros without attaching them to a crack just to show off how well they could program. This evolved into the demoscene.
External links
- World of Cracktros (http://cracktros.planet-d.net) - A site containing lots of Amiga crack intros removed from their illegal cracks and enhanced to run on modern Amigas and Amiga emulators.
- World of C64 Crackintros (http://www.intros.c64.org) - A huge collection of C64 cracktros in 'prg' file format (supported by most c64 emulators).
- Flashtros (http://www.flashtro.com) - Amiga cracktros converted to flash.
- Pouet (http://www.pouet.net) - An archive of cracktros for all types of operating systems.
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