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right|thumb|200px|A cracktro used by Phrozen Crew, distributed as an [[.nfo file with a bespoke reader.]]
A crack intro, commonly abbreviated as cracktro, is a small introduction sequence added to keygens and cracked software aimed to inform the user which cracking crew or individual cracker removed the software's copy protection and distributed the crack or keygen. of the software itself. Crack intros only became more sophisticated on more advanced systems such as the Amiga, Atari ST, and some IBM PC compatibles with sound cards.
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Further reading
- Patryk Wasiak, ‘Illegal Guys’. A History of Digital Subcultures in Europe during the 1980s, in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 9 (2012), H. 2
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- Hastik, Canan; Steinmetz, Arnd (2012a): Demoscene Artists and Community . In Bours, Patrick; Humm, Bernhard; Loew, Robert; Stengel, Ingo; Walsh, Paul (eds.): Proceedings of CERC 2012, pp. 43–48.
- Driscoll, Kevin; Diaz, Joshua (2009): Endless Loop: A Brief History of Chiptunes. Transformative Works and Cultures 9, 2009.
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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 cracktros in all tracker formats.
- Chiptune.com – A chiptune dedicated website containing thousands of chiptunes from Amiga and other formats. The website itself emulates the Amiga Workbench 1.3.
- THE AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHRON – A large back-to-back collection of Amiga cracktros.
- Docsnyderspage.com – Hundreds of C64 crack intros re-coded for the web.
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