History
- Released
- 6 March 1992
- Group
- Excalibur — USA
Excalibur's first crack intro — coded and drawn by Eclipse, with music by the Dutch composer Jeroen Soede whose SID tune "Dull" accompanies the scrolltext. Doc Snyder's page preserves the text, which announces a crack of "ATA — The Revenge" imported from Pandora and PAL/NTSC fixed by Massive Onslaught on 6 March 1992. Greetings go to Pandora, Legend, Offense, Success, Avatar, and The Shaolin Temple — mapping connections across both American and European groups. Eclipse handled both code and artwork, a dual role common in smaller groups. CSDb catalogues Excalibur under group ID 3470 with numerous releases, confirming sustained output across the early 1990s. This intro ranks 373rd overall, below #191 EXC-02 which featured Burglar's code and Junebug's music. The scrolltext closes with "EXC '92: Glory is for the few!" — the group's established motto. Excalibur's reliance on Dutch musicians like Soede and Schutten reflects the transatlantic SID supply lines connecting American crackers to European composers.
Sources: CSDb group · docsnyderspage · intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:21 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $ffff (63488 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 (with relocation) — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $0810 (via BASIC SYS 2064) // Entry point: $1000 (4096) // IRQ handler: $1094 (irq_1094) // // Code: 3957 bytes, Data: 59531 bytes // Labels: 455, Subroutines: 14 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1000-$1146 --- .pc = $1000 "main_1000" main_1000: { lda #$0d sta $0286 jsr $e544 sei lda #$00 sta $d020 sta $d021 sta $d012 sta $033d sta $033c sta $033e sta $033f sta $0340 lda #$01 sta $d01a sta $0341 lda #$7f sta $dc0d lda #$1b sta $d011 lda #$94 sta $0314 lda #$10 sta $0315 nop lda #$00 jsr sub_3003 jsr sub_11a7 jsr sub_12c1 nop ldx #$00 loop1: lda #$00 sta $0680,x inx cpx #$28 bne loop1 ldx #$00 loop2: lda dat_2800,x sta $0400,x sta $06a8,x lda txt_28a0,x sta $04a0,x sta $0748,x inx cpx #$a0 bne loop2 ldx #$00 loop3: lda txt_0c80,x and #$3f sta $054c,x clc adc #$40 sta $0574,x inx cpx #$10 bne loop3 nop nop cli loop4: lda $dc01 cmp #$ef bne loop4 nop jmp loc_12d1 } irq_1094: lda #$19 sta $d018 lda #$09 sta $d023 lda #$0f sta $d022 lda #$18 sta $d016 jsr sub_3000 jsr sub_126a lda #$72 loc_10b0: cmp $d012 bne loc_10b0 ldy #$09 loc_10b7: dey bne loc_10b7 nop nop nop lda #$13 sta $d018 lda #$08 sta $d016 lda #$a2 loc_10c9: cmp $d012 bne loc_10c9 ldy #$07 loc_10d0: dey bne loc_10d0 nop nop nop lda $033d sta $d016 lda #$b2 loc_10de: cmp $d012 bne loc_10de ldy #$07 loc_10e5: dey bne loc_10e5 nop nop nop nop