History
- Released
- 1988
- Code
- Paradroid
- Music
- Fred Gray — Hysteria
- Group
- Online — Germany, founded February 1988
This Online crack intro from 1988 is catalogued on CSDb as release #182994 under the name "Online Intro." Paradroid coded the intro while Fred Gray's "Hysteria" provides the soundtrack, preserved in the HVSC. Both credits are confirmed by Doc Snyder's page, which lists this as Online's sole catalogued intro. Online was a German cracking group founded in February 1988 with the tagline "Quality is our slogan." Demozoo also documents the release, classifying it as both a cracktro and an 8K intro, with a specific date of 7 May 1988 — though under a different CSDb release ID. Fred Gray was a professional game musician whose compositions were frequently ripped for use in crack intros across the European scene. Online operated during the peak period of German C64 cracking, when the country hosted the largest concentration of active groups anywhere in the world. The group's name appears in scrolltext greetings from contemporary groups like Lazer, confirming their presence in the late-1980s trading network.
Sources: CSDb · docsnyderspage · Demozoo
// ============================================ // output - Part 1 of 6 // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:36:23 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0801 End: $ffff (63487 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 (with relocation) — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $0810 (via BASIC SYS 2064) // Entry point: $1e00 (7680) // // Code: 3813 bytes, Data: 59674 bytes // Labels: 497, Subroutines: 28 // // Verification: 5 line(s) auto-corrected to .byte for exact byte matching // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0848-$0862 --- .pc = $0848 "loc_0848" loc_0848: lda ($2f),y rol rol rol rol and #$07 tax lda $011a,x sta $0118 lda ($2f),y and #$1f tax jsr $0122 jmp $01ff dat_0862: .byte $a4 // . // --- Region $086f-$08de --- .pc = $086f "loc_086f" loc_086f: bmi loc_08d1 lda ($2f),y jsr $0122 loc_0876: sta ($2d),y inc $2d bne loc_087e inc $2e loc_087e: dex bne loc_0876 beq loc_0848 lda #$00 beq loc_0876 lda #$ff bne loc_0876 loc_088b: lda ($2f),y sta ($2d),y inc $2f bne loc_0895 inc $30 loc_0895: inc $2d bne loc_089b inc $2e loc_089b: dex bne loc_088b beq loc_0848 jsr $0171 lda ($2f),y jsr $0122 loc_08a8: sta ($2d),y inc $2d bne loc_08b0 inc $2e loc_08b0: dex bne loc_08a8 dec $39 bpl loc_08a8 bmi loc_0848 stx $39 lda ($2f),y tax jmp $0122 loc_08c1: jsr $0171 loc_08c4: lda ($2f),y sta ($2d),y inc $2f bne loc_08ce inc $30 loc_08ce: inc $2d .label loc_08d1 = * + 1 bne loc_08d4 inc $2e loc_08d4: dex bne loc_08c4 dec $39 bpl loc_08c4 jmp $0100 dat_08de: .byte $2c // , // --- Region $0927-$0991 --- .pc = $0927 "loc_0927" loc_0927: and ($ed,x) ldx #$00 jsr sub_0a29 ldx #$07 jsr sub_0a29 ldx #$0e jsr sub_0a29 jmp loc_0a41 loc_093b: lda $10fc,x sta $d406,x sta $0a06,x jsr sub_1226 jsr sub_10c2 jsr sub_1065 jsr sub_0ee2