It wasn’t enough to simply crack software coding in order to remove or alter copyright protections and gain the ability to share the software or video game files programmers wanted to put their stamp on these cracks and claim credit. Many individuals of the demoscene would dabble in the art of software cracking once the practice of filesharing began (Even prior to Napster et.all when people would simply download files to floppy and share with one another). It began in the demoscene, as the musical offshoot of the hobby of creating demos to show off one’s visual and creative prowess on the computer prior to the advent of more sophisticated techniques seen these days.
Having attended MAGFest recently and become more interested in the demoscene, I’ve decided to revisit this.Īlso known as “cracktros”, or “crack intros”, there is a history behind the fun chiptune diddies that often accompanied our forays into casual piracy. Maybe it was simply an annoyance on the way towards the goal of cracking your ill-gotten software, or maybe it’s a fond memory of the age of Napster, Limewire and pre-torrent times.
If you’re one of those ilk, then you are likely familiar with keygen music, or at least have had an encounter with the niche genre but didn’t pay it much mind. Getting past the morality of it, it’s safe to say we all know the process of downloading an installer alongside a key generator that would help us get to our elicit activities, or an emulator with which to play the ROMs of import games we didn’t get in the states. The vast majority of us have been horrible people at some point or another and pirated software or at least emulated games on our computers at least once in our lives.
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