History
- Released
- 11 October 1985
- Group
- The Organized Professional Pirating Service — United States
Daddy ZER0 coded this 1985 crack intro for T.O.P.P.S. — The Organized Professional Pirating Service — an American cracking group catalogued on CSDb under group ID 3229. The group's three-person roster consisted of Daddy ZER0 as coder, plus crackers Silicon Pirate and The Dark Knight. Their headquarters was The Datashack I BBS. T.O.P.P.S. produced 32 releases in 1985–1986, primarily game cracks including Karate Champ, World Karate Championship, and Super Cycle. A CSDb comment notes the intro contains sound effects from the "famous Activision Intro" — repurposing commercial branding for the cracking scene. The elaborately tongue-in-cheek name was characteristic of mid-1980s American groups who often adopted grandiose titles. T.O.P.P.S. operated during the brief window when American groups were competitive with the emerging European cracking scene before Scandinavian and German groups achieved dominance.
Sources: CSDb · intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Part 1 of 2 // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:36:50 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0400 End: $ffff (64512 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $1021 (4129) // IRQ handler: $0d40 (irq_0d40) // IRQ handler: $ea31 (irq_ea31) // // Code: 1486 bytes, Data: 63026 bytes // Labels: 153, Subroutines: 7 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0d40-$0fba --- .pc = $0d40 "irq_0d40" irq_0d40: { lda $d019 ror bcc skip inc $20 jsr sub_0d5c jsr sub_0fc3 skip: lda #$01 sta $d019 lda $dc0d pla tay pla tax pla rti } // Referenced by: jsr from $0d48, $fce7 sub_0d5c: lda $10 beq loc_0d64 dec $10 bne loc_0da1 loc_0d64: lda $18 bne loc_0d6b jmp loc_0e0b loc_0d6b: dec $18 bne loc_0d72 jmp loc_0e54 loc_0d72: cmp #$10 bcs loc_0dc0 lda #$ff sta $1e lda $11 sec sbc #$03 sta $11 lda #$1e sta $12 lda #$86 sta $13 lda #$fa sta $14 lda #$a8 sta $15 lda #$61 sta $16 lda #$08 sta $17 lda #$ba sta $d414 jmp loc_0dd8 loc_0da1: lda $11 cmp #$ff beq loc_0da9 inc $11 loc_0da9: ldx #$04 loc_0dab: lda $12,x sec sbc $0fbd,x sta $12,x lda $13,x sbc $0fbe,x sta $13,x dex dex bpl loc_0dab bmi loc_0dd8 loc_0dc0: lda #$61 sta $12 lda #$08 sta $13 lda #$8f sta $14 lda #$0a sta $15 lda #$18 sta $16 lda #$02 sta $17 loc_0dd8: lda $12 sta $d400 lda $13 sta $d401 lda $14 sta $d407 lda $15 sta $d408 lda $16 sta $d40e lda $17 sta $d40f lda #$41 sta $d404 sta $d40b sta $d412 lda $11 lsr lsr lsr and #$0f sta $d418 loc_0e0b: bit $1b bmi loc_0e24 lda $19 clc adc #$0f