History
- Group
- Crackman Crew — Germany, founded 1984
A crack intro from the Crackman Crew, a German group founded in 1984 — making them one of the earliest documented C64 cracking operations. CSDb confirms the group's existence and German origin but provides no individual credits for code, music, or graphics on this particular intro. The release date is also unrecorded. Founded in the same year the C64 cracking scene was establishing itself in Germany, Crackman Crew predates many of the better-known German groups that emerged in 1986 and 1987. The group is not documented on Doc Snyder's page, Demozoo, or the Atlantis Prophecy archive. Comments on intros.c64.org include a 2008 note from stainlesssteel and a 2015 observation about the intro's compatibility across multiple Commodore platforms. The sparse archival record despite the early founding date suggests Crackman Crew may have been a small local operation whose releases circulated primarily within the German domestic scene before the international distribution networks matured.
Sources: CSDb · intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:14 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0334 End: $ffff (64716 bytes) // Crunched with Section 8 Pack — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $0fed (via BASIC SYS 4077) // Entry point: $f00c (61452) // // Code: 678 bytes, Data: 64038 bytes // Labels: 129, Subroutines: 0 // // Verification: 2 line(s) auto-corrected to .byte for exact byte matching // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1000-$1007 --- .pc = $1000 "loc_1000" loc_1000: sei lda #$37 sta $01 jmp loc_fce2 // --- Region $f004-$f0b5 --- .pc = $f004 "loc_f004" loc_f004: lda #$01 stx dat_dc0e stx $dc0f main_f00c: sta $01 lda $d408,x sta dat_e008,x lda #$05 sta $01 lda dat_f700,x sta dat_d800,x inx bne loc_f004 inc $f010 inc $f013 inc $f01a inc $f01d dey bne loc_f004 lda #$e0 sta $fe stx $fd lda #$e4 sta $51 stx $50 loc_f03c: ldy #$00 lda ($fd),y sta $52 ldx #$01 loc_f044: ldy #$04 loc_f046: asl $52 php rol plp rol dey bne loc_f046 sta ($50),y dec $51 dec $51 dex beq loc_f044 inc $50 beq loc_f05f lda #$04 .label loc_f05f = * + 1 bit $05a9 clc adc $51 sta $51 inc $fd bne loc_f06c inc $fe loc_f06c: lda $fe cmp #$e2 bne loc_f03c jsr $f0ee ldx #$2e loc_f077: lda dat_f400,x sta $d3c0,x dex bpl loc_f077 lda #$7f sta $dc0d lda #$94 sta $dd00 lda #$cc sta $0288 sty $03 sty $05 stx $06 stx $08 sty $09 cli jsr loc_f116 loc_f09d: bit $d3d1 bpl loc_f09d jsr $f248 jsr $f1ec jsr $f17d lda $dc01 cmp #$ef bne loc_f09d jmp loc_1000 dat_f0b5: .byte $48 // H // --- Region $f0ee-$f2d9 --- .pc = $f0ee "Segment $f0ee" lda #$04 sta $07 ldy #$00 lda #$fb sta $fc sty $fb lda #$cc sta $51 sty $50 loc_f100: lda ($fb),y pha