History
- Released
- 1989
- Code
- ADF
- Music
- Markus Schneider — "The Magic Events"
- Group
- Halley Soft Cracking Group — Italy, founded 1987
CSDb catalogues this as the "HSCG 2002 Intro," a 1989 production from the Italian cracking group Halley Soft Cracking Group. ADF coded the intro while Markus Schneider contributed "The Magic Events" as the soundtrack — a collaborative composition co-credited to Johann H. Stoeten and preserved in the HVSC. Halley Soft Cracking Group was founded in Italy in 1987, taking their name from Halley's Comet, which had made its celebrated perihelion passage in 1986. The group represented the Italian wing of the C64 cracking scene, which — while less dominant than the German, Scandinavian, or British scenes — produced a steady stream of groups throughout the late 1980s. No Doc Snyder's page or Demozoo entry has been located for this group, and the CSDb listing provides the primary documentation. The "2002" in the CSDb title likely refers to an internal numbering system rather than a release year, given the 1989 date.
Sources: CSDb
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:47 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $32a6 (10919 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $0820 (2080) // IRQ handler: $1b23 (irq_1b23) // IRQ handler: $1c10 (irq_1c10) // IRQ handler: $ea31 (irq_ea31) // // Code: 2156 bytes, Data: 8763 bytes // Labels: 202, Subroutines: 9 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0820-$0837 --- .pc = $0820 "main_0820" main_0820: lda #$93 jsr $ffd2 lda #$31 sta $0318 sta $0316 lda #$ea sta $0317 sta $0319 jmp loc_1a00 // --- Region $1000-$1003 --- .pc = $1000 "sub_1000" // Referenced by: jsr from $1aa5 sub_1000: jmp loc_10c6 dat_1003: .byte $00 // . // --- Region $10ab-$1505 --- .pc = $10ab "loc_10ab" loc_10ab: lda #$00 sta $d404 sta $d40b sta $d412 lda #$00 sta $1040 jmp loc_14ec // Referenced by: jsr from $1c47 sub_10be: lda $1040 cmp #$01 beq loc_1106 rts loc_10c6: ldx #$00 sta $1076 asl clc adc $1076 tay loc_10d1: lda $1614,y sta txt_1611,x lda $1620,y sta $161d,x iny inx cpx #$03 bne loc_10d1 ldx #$02 lda #$00 loc_10e7: sta $1026,x sta $1020,x sta $1014,x sta $1017,x sta $101a,x dex bpl loc_10e7 lda #$01 sta $1040 rts dat_10ff: .byte $a2,$18,$9d,$00,$d4,$ca,$60 // ......` loc_1106: lda #$1f sta $d418 ldx #$02 dec $1038 bpl loc_1118 lda $103c sta $1038 loc_1118: lda $1010,x sta $1013 lda $1038 cmp $103c bne loc_1138 lda txt_1611,x sta $14 lda $161d,x sta $15 dec $101a,x bmi loc_113b jmp loc_128c loc_1138: jmp loc_1299 loc_113b: ldy $1014,x lda ($14),y cmp #$ff beq loc_114b cmp #$fe bne loc_1159 jmp loc_10ab loc_114b: lda #$00 sta $101a,x sta $1017,x sta $1014,x jmp loc_113b loc_1159: sta $10a7 and #$80 cmp #$80 bne loc_1175 lda $10a7 and #$7f sta $10a8,x