History
- Released
- 1 March 1991
- Group
- The Shaolin Monastery — United States, founded December 1988
Excell coded this silent Shaolin Monastery intro, released on 1 March 1991. It was reused across multiple crack releases including Chip's Challenge, Shadow Dancer, and North & South — serving as a standardized release wrapper. The Shaolin Monastery was an American group founded in December 1988, with key members including Aycee as organizer, Kickback and Master Kracker as coders, Rad Man as coder and cracker, and Stealth handling code and NTSC-fixing. The group dissolved in September 1994. TSM operated several affiliated BBSes across the United States, functioning as a hub for American C64 software distribution during the early 1990s. The intro's visual-only approach — relying on scrolltext and on-screen graphics without audio — kept the file size compact, a practical consideration for BBS-based distribution where transfer speeds mattered.
Sources: CSDb · CSDb — Group
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:36:55 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $ffff (63488 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 (with relocation) — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $0810 (via BASIC SYS 2064) // Entry point: $1090 (4240) // IRQ handler: $11d4 (nmi_11d4) // IRQ handler: $1198 (irq_1198) // // Code: 1046 bytes, Data: 62442 bytes // Labels: 141, Subroutines: 10 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1090-$11d4 --- .pc = $1090 "main_1090" main_1090: ldx #$00 lda #$40 loc_1094: sta $1012,x clc adc #$01 inx cmp #$64 beq loc_10a8 cmp #$48 beq loc_10a5 bne loc_1094 loc_10a5: inx bne loc_1094 loc_10a8: ldx #$00 lda #$60 loc_10ac: sta $1312,x sec sbc #$28 pha .label smc_10b4 = * + 1 lda #$70 // !SMC: modified by $10bb sta $1338,x sec sbc #$28 sta smc_10b4 // SMC: modifies $10b4 pla inx inx cpx #$26 bne loc_10ac ldx #$00 lda #$10 jsr sub_10da inc $10e0 dec $10e5 lda #$07 jsr sub_10da jmp loc_10fb // Referenced by: jsr from $10c9, $10d4, $fce2 sub_10da: ldy #$02 jsr sub_10ef ldy #$05 jsr sub_10ef ldy #$06 jsr sub_10ef ldy #$02 jsr sub_10ef rts // Referenced by: jsr from $10dc, $10e1, $10e6, $10eb, $fcea, $fcef, $fcf4; branch from $10f5 sub_10ef: sta $1313,x inx inx dey bpl sub_10ef sec sbc #$01 rts loc_10fb: lda #$08 ldx #$c0 ldy #$13 stx $fb sty $fc jsr $e536 sei lda #$35 ldx #$01 ldy #$7f sta $01 stx $d01a sty $dc0d ldx #$d4 ldy #$11 stx $fffa sty $fffb lda #$98 ldx #$11 sta $fffe stx smc_ffff // SMC: modifies $ffff lda #$dd ldx #$1b sta $d012 stx $d011 cli ldx #$18 loc_1138: ldy $1310 cpy #$01 bne loc_114b lda #$00 sta $1310 cpx #$0f beq loc_114b jsr sub_116c loc_114b: inc $1310 lda #$0c sta dat_135e,x sta $1386,x lda #$0a tay loc_1159: cmp $d012 bne loc_1159 dey bne loc_1159 lda #$0f sta dat_135e,x dex