History
- Released
- 29 June 1992
- Code
- Blackice
- Music
- Martin Walker — "Citadel" / Fred Gray — "ShadowFire" (ripped)
- Group
- Empire — Canada
Same team, same date, same music as #64 Empire 04 — Blackice coding with Walker and Gray providing ripped tunes. CSDb lists both Empire intros on 29 June 1992 with identical credits, suggesting these were visual variants distributed with different cracks on the same day. Empire was a Canadian group that maintained C64 output into mid-1992, long after most North American operations had ceased. Martin Walker's "Citadel" and Fred Gray's "ShadowFire" — both British game soundtracks — are preserved in the HVSC. The duplicate entries in the ranking demonstrate how a single production team could generate multiple popular intros through visual variation alone. Doc Snyder's page documents Empire's releases.
Sources: CSDb · docsnyderspage
empire-02.asm 1.988 lines
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-01 10:59:18 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0700 End: $35ff (12032 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080b (via BASIC SYS 2059) // Entry point: $3200 (12800) // IRQ handler: $32b1 (irq_32b1) // IRQ handler: $32fb (irq_32fb) // IRQ handler: $331f (irq_331f) // IRQ handler: $334b (irq_334b) // IRQ handler: $3374 (irq_3374) // IRQ handler: $3397 (irq_3397) // IRQ handler: $33f4 (irq_33f4) // // Code: 1241 bytes, Data: 10791 bytes // Labels: 226, Subroutines: 12 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1200-$1203 --- .pc = $1200 "sub_1200" // Referenced by: jsr from $35cf, $35d4, $35d9 sub_1200: jmp loc_13fb dat_1203: .byte $4c // L // --- Region $13fb-$156e --- .pc = $13fb "loc_13fb" loc_13fb: ldx #$02 loc_13fd: lda #$00 sta dat_156f,x sta txt_1572,x lda $1581,x tay lda $158b,x sta $d402,y lda $158e,x sta $d403,y lda #$08 sta $d404,y lda $1594,x sta $d405,y lda $1597,x sta $d406,y dex bpl loc_13fd lda #$d6 sta $1575 lda #$12 sta $1578 lda #$ff sta $1576 lda #$12 sta $1579 lda #$28 sta $1577 lda #$13 sta $157a lda #$00 sta $1584 sta $1587 sta $1585 lda #$08 sta $1586 rts // Referenced by: jsr from $32d7 sub_1458: { inc $1584 lda $1587 bne skip1 clc lda $1585 adc #$40 sta $1585 sta $d402 lda $1586 adc #$00 sta $1586 sta $d403 cmp #$0e bne skip2 inc $1587 bne skip2 skip1: sec lda $1585 sbc #$40 sta $1585 sta $d402 lda $1586 sbc #$00 sta $1586 sta $d403 cmp #$02 bne skip2 dec $1587 skip2: lda $1584 cmp #$04 bne skip3 ldx #$02 loop: lda $1581,x tay lda txt_1591,x and #$fe sta $d404,y dex bpl loop rts skip3: cmp #$08 bne done lda #$00 sta $1584 jsr sub_14c4 done: rts } // Referenced by: jsr from $14c0 sub_14c4: lda $02 pha lda $03 pha ldx #$00 jsr sub_14e0 ldx #$01 jsr sub_14e0 ldx #$02 jsr sub_14e0 pla sta $03 pla