History
- Released
- December 1987
- Charset
- Mark Jones
- Music
- Oliver Klawer — "Tronic"
- Group
- Beastie Boys — Germany, founded July 1987
A crack intro from Beastie Boys, the German group founded in July 1987. Released in December 1987 — just five months after founding — the intro features Oliver Klawer's "Tronic," a SID composition preserved in the HVSC. Mark Jones created the charset, though no coder is credited on CSDb. Doc Snyder's page documents the group's extensive catalogue, with core members The Syndicate (Sascha), Accept, Captain Future, Profi, and Electro operating from cities across West Germany including Frankfurt, Munich, and Bremen. The group's scrolltexts contain lengthy greetings lists reaching groups across Europe — Fairlight, Alpha Flight, Hotline, FCS, and many others. This joins numerous other Beastie Boys entries in the ranking, including the much higher-placed #16 BB-02 and #204 BB-07. Beastie Boys were among the most prolific German cracking groups of 1987-1988, though their activity declined as the C64 scene waned.
Sources: CSDb · docsnyderspage
// ============================================ // output - Part 1 of 2 // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:11 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $3eff (14080 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $11c0 (4544) // IRQ handler: $1035 (irq_1035) // IRQ handler: $3338 (sub_3338) // IRQ handler: $1088 (irq_1088) // // Code: 1843 bytes, Data: 12237 bytes // Labels: 215, Subroutines: 18 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1000-$10ff --- .pc = $1000 "sub_1000" // Referenced by: jsr from $1206 sub_1000: sei lda #$35 ldx #$10 sta $0314 stx $0315 lda #$00 sta $dc0e lda #$f1 sta $d01a lda #$1b sta $d011 lda #$3a sta $d012 lda #$18 sta $d018 lda #$03 sta $dd00 lda #$00 sta $d020 sta $d021 cli rts scr_1033: // === Screen RAM (2 bytes, $1033-$1034) === .byte $ea,$ea // scrcode: .. irq_1035: sei lda #$01 sta $d019 ldy #$01 loc_103d: dey bne loc_103d lda $1160 sta $d022 sta $d023 ldy #$01 loc_104b: dey bne loc_104b ldx #$00 loc_1050: ldy scr_1100,x loc_1053: dey bne loc_1053 lda $1161,x sta $d022 sta $d023 inx cpx #$58 bne loc_1050 lda #$00 jsr sub_13c2 jsr sub_12c3 lda #$01 sta $d019 .label smc_1072 = * + 1 lda #$c7 // !SMC: modified by $10dd, $10f3 sta $d016 lda #$e7 sta $d012 lda #$88 sta $0314 lda #$10 sta $0315 jmp loc_170d irq_1088: lda smc_1093 cmp #$c7 beq loc_10b3 jsr sub_10e9 .label smc_1093 = * + 1 lda #$c7 // !SMC: modified by $10da jsr sub_10f0 ldy #$5c loc_1099: dey bne loc_1099 loc_109c: lda #$18 sta $d016 lda #$35 sta $0314 lda #$01 sta $d019 lda #$42 sta $d012 jmp loc_10e3 loc_10b3: ldy $0fff lda $0fc0,y sta $db47 inc $0fff lda $0fff cmp #$20 bne loc_10cb lda #$00 sta $0fff loc_10cb: ldx #$28 loc_10cd: lda $db46,x sta $db47,x dex cpx #$00 bne loc_10cd lda #$c1 sta smc_1093 // SMC: modifies $1093 sta smc_1072 // SMC: modifies $1072 jmp loc_109c