History
- Group
- Fantastic 4 Cracking Group — Italy, founded 1983
The fourth numbered intro from Fantastic 4 Cracking Group — an early entry in their long-running sequence of crack intro designs. No CSDb match has been confirmed, leaving the coder, musician, and release date unverified. As one of F4CG's lowest-numbered intros in the rankings, this likely dates from the late 1980s when the group was establishing the visual identity that would define their later, more polished productions. F4CG's progression from these early designs to the elaborate intros of their mature period — represented by entries like #30 F4CG-08 with code by Kid and music by JLD — traces the evolution of crack intro aesthetics on the C64. Founded in Italy in 1983, F4CG's early output helped establish a Southern European presence in a scene dominated by Northern European groups. Their numbered intro series would eventually stretch past ninety entries, a volume unmatched by most contemporaries. The group's prolific output across nearly a decade remains one of the defining features of Italian C64 scene history.
Sources: intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:25 // 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: $2400 (9216) // IRQ handler: $2424 (irq_2424) // // Code: 3633 bytes, Data: 59855 bytes // Labels: 466, Subroutines: 7 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1000-$1003 --- .pc = $1000 "sub_1000" // Referenced by: jsr from $1e86, $f70a sub_1000: jmp loc_1085 spr_1003: // === Sprite data (1 bytes, $1003-$1003) === .byte $4c // --- Region $1085-$1508 --- .pc = $1085 "loc_1085" loc_1085: ldx #$00 txa loc_1088: lda #$00 sta $1029,x sta $105f,x lda #$01 sta $1026,x lda #$09 sta $102c,x lda #$10 sta $102f,x inx cpx #$03 bcc loc_1088 lda $1011 sta $1013 lda #$1f sta $d418 lda #$01 sta $100a rts loc_10b5: lda #$00 sta $100a rts // Referenced by: jsr from $255d, $fb2c; jmp from $ec7f sub_10bb: lda $100a bne loc_10c1 rts loc_10c1: lda #$00 sta $1074 ldx #$02 loc_10c8: lda $100e,x sta $bb tay lda $1026,x beq loc_1120 dec $1059,x bpl loc_10f7 inc $1059,x dec $1071,x bmi loc_10eb lda $1068,x ora #$01 sta $d404,y jmp loc_126a loc_10eb: inc $1071,x lda $1068,x sta $d404,y jmp loc_126a loc_10f7: lda $1041,x and #$10 beq loc_111d lda #$81 sta $d404,y lda $1012 asl tay lda scr_1508,y pha lda $1509,y pha ldy $bb pla sta $d401,y pla sta $d400,y jmp loc_141d loc_111d: jmp loc_126a loc_1120: txa tay lda $102c,y sta $bc lda $102f,y sta $bd lda #$00 sta $100d ldy $1029,x lda #$00 sta $1020,x lda ($bc),y cmp #$ff bne loc_1142 jmp loc_14c1 loc_1142: pha and #$20 beq loc_114c lda #$01 sta $100d loc_114c: pla cmp #$80 bcc loc_1154 jmp loc_1444