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cracktro en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio

Etymology

Blend of crack + intro.

Meanings

1. An intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.
   • When browsing the HVSC, I often encounter some songs which I never heard the name of, but which I know from those famous cracktros from Ikari, Hotline etc. 2002, Blackspawn, “Favourite cracktro tunes”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):
   • Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command. 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

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