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The original Cricut machine has cutting mats of 150 mm × 300 mm (6 in × 12 in), the larger Cricut Explore allows mats of 300 mm × 300 mm, and 300 mm × 610 mm (12 in × 12 in, and 12 in × 24 in). The largest machine will produce letters from a 13 to 597 mm (0.5 to 23.5 in) high.
Video game trading circles began to emerge in the years following, with networks of computers, connected via modem to long-distance telephone lines, transmitting the contents of floppy discs. [2] These trading circles became colloquially known as the Warez scene, with the term "warez" being an informal bastardization of "software". [5]
Cracked.com is an American website that was based on Cracked magazine. It was founded in 2005 by Jack O'Brien. [1] [2] In 2007, Cracked had a couple of hundred thousand unique users per month and three or four million page views. In June 2011, it reached 27 million page views, according to comScore.
Software crackers usually did not benefit materially from their actions and their motivation was the challenge itself of removing the protection. [2] Some low skilled hobbyists would take already cracked software and edit various unencrypted strings of text in it to change messages a game would tell a game player, often something considered vulgar.
The full form is a full version of a game or application, generally released as CD or DVD-writable disk images (BIN or ISO files). A rip is a cut-down version of the title in which additions included on the legitimate DVD/CD (generally PDF manuals, help files, tutorials, and audio/video media) are omitted.
In mid-2018 CODEX began releasing cracked copies of games featuring the latest versions of Denuvo DRM, including updated versions of Assassin's Creed Origins and Far Cry 5, both of which used Uplay licensing DRM and contained additional anti-modification and anti-debugging code through the use of VMProtect.
The cartridges are identical in appearance to regular cartridges, other than the addition of a small Giga Cart logo on the label, but have a larger storage capacity. The larger capacity would allow for larger game files to be stored on the cartridge, particularly games originally released on CD .
ROM cartridges typically have less capacity than other media. [17] The PCjr-compatible version of Lotus 1-2-3 comes on two cartridges and a floppy disk. [18] ROM cartridges are typically more expensive to manufacture than discs, and storage space available on a cartridge is less than that of an optical disc like a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM.