History
- Released
- 1993
- Code
- Atomicro
- Music
- DOS (Andor Cseh) — "EGO game/2"
- Graphics
- Macho
- Group
- Sacred — Netherlands, founded 1993
The first crack intro from Sacred, a Dutch group founded in 1993 and operating under the short tag "[S]." Atomicro coded the intro, Macho provided the graphics, and DOS (Andor Cseh) contributed the music with "EGO game/2," preserved in the HVSC. The coder himself commented on the intros.c64.org entry in 2013, confirming his identity — a rare instance of original sceners verifying their own work decades later. Sacred was based in the Netherlands, joining a long lineage of Dutch cracking groups that included Hotline, Ikari, and the Dominators. The group's founding in 1993 placed it in the later phase of C64 cracking, when the scene had contracted but remained active in parts of Western Europe. No scrolltext or additional historical context has been recovered from Doc Snyder's page or Freeze64.
Sources: CSDb
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:36:42 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $43ff (15360 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $4000 (16384) // IRQ handler: $40cb (irq_40cb) // // Code: 2522 bytes, Data: 12838 bytes // Labels: 271, Subroutines: 17 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1100-$1205 --- .pc = $1100 "sub_1100" // Referenced by: jsr from $41b2 sub_1100: jmp loc_11aa // Referenced by: jsr from $401c sub_1103: stx smc_1135 // SMC: modifies $1135 lda $182c,x sta smc_11bc // SMC: modifies $11bc lda #$80 sta smc_11d0 // SMC: modifies $11d0 ldx #$0f stx smc_13eb // SMC: modifies $13eb stx $d418 dex jsr sub_1134 ldx #$07 jsr sub_1134 ldx #$00 stx smc_11ab // SMC: modifies $11ab stx $fc stx $fd stx smc_11b5 // SMC: modifies $11b5 stx $d417 stx $d416 // Referenced by: jsr from $111a, $111f sub_1134: .label smc_1135 = * + 1 lda #$00 // !SMC: modified by $1103 clc adc $17b2,x tay lda $184d,y sta $17af,x sta $ff lda $1850,y sta $17b0,x sta $fe lda #$00 sta $d406,x sta $d405,x lda #$18 sta $d404,x ldy #$00 tya sta $17dc,x lda #$03 sta $17b1,x sta $17b5,x lda ($fe),y sec sbc #$a0 sta $17da,x iny lda ($fe),y and #$7f sta $17db,x iny lda ($fe),y tay lda $18ef,y sta $17b4,x sta $fe lda $18fb,y sta $17b3,x sta $ff ldy #$00 lda ($fe),y and #$3f sta $17dd,x iny lda ($fe),y sta $17c8,x and #$1f sta $17c7,x loc_119e: iny lda ($fe),y sta $17de,x inx cpy #$04 bne loc_119e rts loc_11aa: .label smc_11ab = * + 1 lda #$00 // !SMC: modified by $1124 beq loc_11b4 dat_11ae: .byte $29,$00,$8d,$18,$d4,$60 // )....` loc_11b4: .label smc_11b5 = * + 1 ldy #$00 // !SMC: modified by $112b, $11bd sta $fb dey bpl dat_1206 .label smc_11bc = * + 1 ldy #$01 // !SMC: modified by $1109 sty smc_11b5 // SMC: modifies $11b5 ldx #$0e jsr sub_12e1 ldx #$07 jsr sub_12e1 ldx #$00 jsr sub_12e1 .label smc_11d0 = * + 1 ldy #$80 // !SMC: modified by $110e cpy #$fc beq loc_11f4 bmi loc_1218 loc_11d7: dey bne loc_11ee lda smc_13eb clc adc #$ff cmp #$ff beq loc_11ec sta smc_13eb ora $fd sta $d418