A mainstream media article on the demoscene

[Voltage]

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/past-present-and-future-of-the-demoscene-616817?artc_pg=1

I found this on Hacker news... news.ycombinator.com

[Shockwave]

Interesting how the article goes back from the present into the past, and the cracktro that they had a photo of is one of my personal favourites (because of the music - dotty flowers), I even mad a windows version of it

http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,1782.0.html

If you read any article about cracktros it will go on about how the demoscene abandoned cracktros, but what actually happened was that the scene became divided, a lot of todays coders in demogroups work in professional coding institutions and they distance themselves from the illegal scene (understandably) but I can tell you that I heard some promising rumours that made me happy this week.

Apparently some of the leading groups are developing techniques to inject cracktros into games that they release, there are a couple of methods being experimented with and I believe that this will see a re-emergence of crack intros, also because the intros will be bound to the exe's, it will stop people uploading them to scene portals so easily, which would please a lot of people who write these intros.

Anyway, if it becomes a reality I guess that a lot of people here will never know, it is a brave step for the groups.

In a lot of cases the groups buy the games that they will crack out of their own money and if an intro on their game causes the crack not to work, it would mean that another group could theoretically "proper" the release and lead to the one with the intro being nuked.

Most of the scene will not care about this I suppose, but I thought I'd share what I'd heard.

[Shockwave]

And finally to add at the end, if some p2p lamer is pissed off that they have to click through the release groups intro, then maybe they should buy the original!

[benny!]

Wow ... that's interesting news. I have to say that since I work
in the game-industry I met a lot of sceners and even work with
them. So the scene spirit is still around ...

[Voltage]

As Shockwave rumoured embedding cracktros in current games would really give the scene a boost I think.

[Shockwave]

Well maybe it will improve the standard of crack intros anyway

[slinks]

Most of the scene will not care about this I suppose, but I thought I'd share what I'd heard.

Not true. I was far too young to see this sort of thing the first time round, I've always wanted to see it in action.