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cracktro
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Combination of "crack" and "intro". An introduction image or animation inserted
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at the startup of cracked proprietary software. Cracktros typically gave a
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shout out to the nicknames or the crackers or the cracking group, similar
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to graffiti tags in meatspace.
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The cracktros of the late 1980s on systems such as Atari ST and Commodore
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Amiga gave birth to the demoscene of artistic computer animation demos,
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and was originally a particularly European phenomena.
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