History
- Released
- 1984
- Group
- German Cracking Service — Germany
Ranked #17 on intros.c64.org and dated 1984 on CSDb — one of the earliest crack intros in the archive. German Cracking Service operated from Germany but the release record is sparse: no code, music or graphics handle is attached to this intro on CSDb, and the group's founding date is undocumented. Doc Snyder's page for German Cracking Service carries no per-intro section that maps to this release, so no additional individual credits can be confirmed. The 1984 date places the intro among the earliest examples of the form, when the conventions of crack intros — scrolltexts, logo, music — were still being established on the platform. The intro's high ranking despite the absence of metadata suggests it made a strong impression on contemporaries even though the individuals who produced it have not surfaced in the primary databases.
Sources: CSDb · docsnyderspage
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-01 10:59:21 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0801 End: $0a8f (655 bytes) // Entry point: $0821 (via BASIC SYS 2081) // // Code: 391 bytes, Data: 264 bytes // Labels: 31, Subroutines: 2 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0821-$09a9 --- .pc = $0821 "main_0821" main_0821: ldx #$00 loc_0823: lda $0a8e,x sta $fd30,x txa sta $0a8e,x inx bne loc_0823 loc_0830: sta main_0821,x inx cpx #$0f bne loc_0830 ldx #$c1 loc_083a: lda $09cd,x sta $033f,x dex bne loc_083a lda #$93 jsr $ffd2 lda #$0c sta $d020 sta $d021 lda #$07 sta $d017 sta $d01d sta $d027 sta $d015 lda #$02 sta $d028 lda #$00 sta $d029 lda #$0d ldx #$0e ldy #$0f sta $07f8 stx $07f9 sty $07fa ldy #$00 ldx #$a8 stx $d000 stx $d002 stx $d004 loc_0884: sty $d001 sty $d003 sty $d005 iny jsr sub_093e cpy #$c8 bne loc_0884 loc_0895: dec $d004 inc $d000 jsr sub_093e inx cpx #$fa bne loc_0895 loc_08a3: dec $d003 jsr sub_093e inx cpx #$19 bne loc_08a3 loc_08ae: dec $d001 dec $d003 dec $d005 jsr sub_093e inx cpx #$8c bne loc_08ae loc_08bf: inc $d027 inc $d028 inc $d029 jsr sub_093e inx cpx #$4c bne loc_08bf clc ldx #$0c ldy #$08 sty $09b3 jsr $fff0 ldx #$00 stx $0286 loc_08e0: lda dat_09a8,x jsr $ffd2 lda #$20 jsr $ffd2 lda #$20 jsr $ffd2 jsr sub_093e inx cpx #$09 bne loc_08e0 clc ldx #$10 ldy #$0c jsr $fff0 ldx #$00 loc_0902: lda $080a,x jsr $ffd2 jsr sub_093e inx cpx #$10 bne loc_0902 clc ldx #$14 ldy #$09 jsr $fff0 ldx #$00 loc_091a: lda $09b4,x