History
- Released
- 1988
- Group
- The Terminator — Netherlands, founded 1988
DRM and Metallica — both also members of Orion and Tetragon — coded this intro for The Terminator, a Dutch cracking group founded in 1988. EVS (Edwin van Santen) of 20th Century Composers provided the music with his "PCW-Tune '88." The group operated from the Netherlands with members including Ben, Evil E, Futury, Mantronik, Rush, and Style, releasing 77 productions — primarily game cracks and imports — during 1988–1989. The external links in the intros.c64.org comments reference CSDb group pages for both The Terminator and Rhenus, suggesting connections between these Dutch and German operations. Van Santen was a prolific composer whose work with 20th Century Composers produced some of the most technically accomplished SID music of the late 1980s. The Terminator's brief but active period coincided with the peak years of C64 software distribution across the Benelux countries.
Sources: CSDb · CSDb — Group
// ============================================ // output - Part 1 of 3 // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:36:54 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $313f (10560 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $1941 (6465) // IRQ handler: $fec1 (nmi_fec1) // IRQ handler: $1a91 (irq_1a91) // // Code: 1836 bytes, Data: 8724 bytes // Labels: 194, Subroutines: 12 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1000-$135e --- .pc = $1000 "sub_1000" // Referenced by: jsr from $1afd sub_1000: ldy $71 bmi loc_100d beq loc_1009 jmp loc_131b loc_1009: sty $d418 rts loc_100d: ldx #$02 loc_100f: jsr sub_102b dex bpl loc_100f dec $51 bpl loc_101d lda #$02 sta $51 loc_101d: lda $72 sta $d418 dec $0e bpl loc_102a lda #$02 sta $0e loc_102a: rts // Referenced by: jsr from $100f sub_102b: { lda $0e bne skip1 dec $0b,x bne skip1 jmp loc_120c skip1: lda $12,x bne skip2 lda $1b,x ldy scr_135f,x stx $fe tax lda $147a,x sta $d404,y lda $147c,x sta $d405,y lda $147d,x sta $d406,y ldx $fe skip2: inc $12,x lda $45,x bpl skip4 ldy $48,x lda $143c,y sta $fe lda $143f,y sta $ff ldy $3f,x lda ($fe),y cmp #$ff beq skip3 inc $3f,x ldy scr_135f,x sta $d404,y skip3: ldy $42,x lda ($fe),y cmp #$80 beq skip4 inc $42,x sta $24,x skip4: lda #$10 clc ldy $18,x cpy #$02 beq skip5 cpy #$01 beq skip5 lda $21,x adc $27,x skip5: adc $24,x adc $52,x sta $73 tay lda $1362,y clc adc $5b,x pha lda $13c2,y adc $5e,x ldy scr_135f,x sta $d401,y pla sta $d400,y lda $6b,x sta $d402,y lda $6e,x sta $d403,y lda $12,x cmp #$02 bne skip6 lda $45,x and #$40 beq skip6 lda #$81 sta $d404,y bne skip7 skip6: cmp #$03 bne skip7 lda $45,x bmi skip7 lda $3c,x sta $d404,y skip7: lda $58,x beq skip8