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- Imports, Crackings & Engineerings [ICE]
A crack intro from ICE — Imports, Crackings & Engineerings — a group whose full name explicitly describes the three pillars of cracking-scene activity: importing software from abroad, cracking its copy protection, and engineering trainers and other modifications. No CSDb release match was found, and no individual code or music credits could be confirmed through available sources. The Atlantis Prophecy archive contains an interview with a scener named Iceman, though the connection to this specific group requires verification. The intros.c64.org page drew comments from Daison (2013) and Hades (2006), both active scene archivists. No coverage appears on Doc Snyder's page, Demozoo, or in preserved diskmag articles. The group's country of origin and founding date remain unconfirmed. ICE represents one of many mid-tier cracking groups whose work survives in intro archives but whose broader history has been incompletely preserved in scene databases.
Sources: intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:49 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $157f (3456 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $0820 (2080) // IRQ handler: $ea31 (irq_ea31) // IRQ handler: $0b55 (irq_0b55) // // Code: 1158 bytes, Data: 2298 bytes // Labels: 101, Subroutines: 3 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0820-$0b74 --- .pc = $0820 "main_0820" main_0820: jsr $ff84 jsr $ff8a jsr $e453 jsr $ff5b sei lda #$30 sta $01 ldy #$00 sty $fa sty $fc lda #$30 sta $fb lda #$e0 sta $fd ldx #$10 loc_0841: lda ($fa),y sta ($fc),y lda #$00 sta ($fa),y iny bne loc_0841 inc $fb inc $fd dex bne loc_0841 ldx #$00 loc_0855: lda $0e30,x sta $3000,x lda $0f30,x sta $3100,x lda $1030,x sta $3200,x inx bne loc_0855 loc_086a: lda $1130,x sta $3300,x inx cpx #$e0 bne loc_086a lda #$37 sta $01 cli lda #$c1 sta $0318 lda #$00 sta $d020 sta $d021 sta $0286 jsr $e544 lda #$08 jsr $ffd2 lda #$1c sta $d018 lda #$1b sta $d011 lda #$c8 sta $d016 lda #$97 sta $dd00 lda #$7f sta $d015 sta $d01d lda #$00 sta $d017 sta $d01c lda #$60 sta $d010 ldx #$00 ldy #$00 lda #$18 loc_08c1: pha txa clc adc #$f8 sta $07f8,x lda #$ea sta $d001,y pla sta $d000,y clc adc #$30 iny iny inx cpx #$07 bne loc_08c1 ldx #$00 txa loc_08df: sta $02c0,x inx cpx #$08 bne loc_08df ldx #$27 lda #$0c loc_08eb: sta $0340,x dex bpl loc_08eb lda #$0b sta $fa lda #$04 sta $fb ldx #$00 ldy #$08 loc_08fd: tya pha ldy #$00 loc_0901: lda txt_1240,x sta ($fa),y inx