Back in the day, C64 users (like myself) ended up with pirated games. Almost everyone (if not everyone) owned a C64 game that was cracked. It is rumored that Commodore's market sold so well due to the massive availability of these cracked games.... it was illegal, but it wasn't properly regulated either.

Lots of these cracker jacks who cracked the copy protections on these games made some of the coolest demo screens of all time, but most of which is remembered for their music. It became a really awesome art form and many C64 fans of today always smile when seeing a crack intro that they are familure with.

Anyways, here is one video that I found on YouTube.

Ahh the good old days! I have a friend who still gets some cracked games for his PC, needless to say they still have the same kind of music in the background. Kinda nice in a strange sort of way.on line abortion pill misoprostol dose abortion medical abortion pill online

I remember doing that even for the Apple ][e with a program called blacksmith or something another. A really good copying program that would copy whole disk. and get cracked games from friends. it would be like trading baseball cards on diskttes. Those were the good old days. Compared to todays games where they are taking up hundred of megs to a couple of gigs for a decent game. Love those sprites.

TronFAQ Wrote: It's from these cracktros that the "demo scene" came into being. And then, somewhat ironically, a lot of cracking/demo groups became game developers.

That is amazingly true. The cracker jacks became the devs. I once knew a member of Eagle Soft (I think it was Eagle Soft or Parallax) that later went on to work for Epyx (which didn't include Eagle Soft in his resume.. lol)... but that was right before Epyx started becoming bankrupt.

Just for giggles, here is a fun (not related fact). DMA, who made Lemmings, later became RockStar Games and became famous for making the GTA series.