History
- Released
- 3 May 1989
- Group
- Frontline & Rangers — Germany
- Music
- Invisible — "Sex Games Preview (tune 4)"
This crack intro is a joint release from Frontline and Rangers, two German cracking groups, dated 3 May 1989 and catalogued on CSDb as release #53630 under the title "Frontline & Rangers Intro." The music is by Invisible, using the SID tune "Sex Games Preview (tune 4)" from the HVSC. Doc Snyder's page confirms the music credit for this intro and maps it to CSDb release #53630. The scrolltext identifies the cracker as Jammy, who handled the game "Tom and Jerry" — noting it was not a reset-crack — and provides rudimentary POKE instructions for training. Greetings extend to Dominators, Elite, Paramount, Shadows, Baboons, Action, Manowar, Beastie Boys, Mantronix, Blasters Inc., Bytestar, Venom, Viper, Hotline, Cheyens, Array, Red Sector, Level 99, Contex, Axenon, Cosmos, Lazer, Afresh, and Science 451. Rangers operated under the abbreviation TGC and were based in Germany.
Sources: CSDb Release · Doc Snyder · intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-01 10:59:30 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $3cff (13568 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080b (via BASIC SYS 2059) // Entry point: $1e00 (7680) // IRQ handler: $1820 (irq_1820) // IRQ handler: $1850 (irq_1850) // IRQ handler: $1880 (irq_1880) // IRQ handler: $18b0 (irq_18b0) // IRQ handler: $18d0 (irq_18d0) // IRQ handler: $18f0 (irq_18f0) // IRQ handler: $1910 (irq_1910) // // Code: 2371 bytes, Data: 11197 bytes // Labels: 273, Subroutines: 19 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0c00-$0c4d --- .pc = $0c00 "sub_0c00" // Referenced by: jsr from $1856 sub_0c00: ldy $02 ldx $0c50,y ldy #$05 loc_0c07: lda $0dc8,x sta $0428,y lda $0e18,x sta $0450,y lda $0e68,x sta $0478,y lda $0eb8,x sta $04a0,y lda $0f08,x sta $04c8,y lda $0f58,x sta $04f0,y lda $0fa8,x sta $0518,y inx iny cpy #$28 bne loc_0c07 ldx $02 lda $0cb0,x sta $d016 inc $02 cpx #$5f bne loc_0c49 lda #$00 sta $02 loc_0c49: jsr sub_0d20 rts chr_0c4d: // === Charset data (1 bytes, $0c4d-$0c4d) === .byte $60 // char 0 (partial) // --- Region $0d20-$0d3b --- .pc = $0d20 "sub_0d20" // Referenced by: jsr from $0c49; jmp from $0d37 sub_0d20: ldx $033c lda $0d40,x sta $d011 inx inc $033c cpx #$20 beq loc_0d32 rts loc_0d32: lda #$00 sta $033c jmp sub_0d20 chr_0d3a: // === Charset data (2 bytes, $0d3a-$0d3b) === .byte $20,$20 // char 0 (partial) // --- Region $148d-$148d --- .pc = $148d "Segment $148d" brk // --- Region $1800-$1954 --- .pc = $1800 "sub_1800" // Referenced by: jsr from $1e57 sub_1800: sei lda #$7f sta $dc0d lda #$01 sta $d01a sta $d019 lda #$20 sta $0314 lda #$18 sta $0315 cli rts dat_181a: .byte $20,$00 // . txt_181c: .text "*L" .byte $bc // '<' | $80 (end-of-string marker) .byte $fe // . irq_1820: lda $d019 sta $d019 lda #$18 sta $0315 lda #$50 sta $0314 lda #$08 sta $d016 lda #$1b sta $d011 lda #$00 sta $d012 jsr sub_3006 jsr sub_1b60 jsr sub_1b90 jmp $febc dat_184b: .byte $4c,$bc,$fe,$00,$00 // L.... irq_1850: lda $d019 sta $d019 jsr sub_0c00 lda #$18