History
- Released
- April 1987
- Charset
- Mark Jones
- Group
- Turkey Soft / Untouchable Cracking Force — United States, founded November 1986
CSDb catalogues this as the "UCF Intro (Turkey Soft)" — a production associated with both Turkey Soft and the Untouchable Cracking Force, an American group founded in November 1986. Released in April 1987, the intro runs silent — disassembly confirms no SID register writes. Mark Jones created the charset. The connection between Turkey Soft and UCF suggests either an alias relationship or a cooperative release between the two groups. UCF was one of numerous American cracking groups active during the C64's commercial peak in the mid-to-late 1980s. No entries were found on Doc Snyder's page, Demozoo, or other scene archives for Turkey Soft, making this intro one of the few surviving artifacts of the name. The visual presentation relies on Jones's charset and scrolltext to convey credits and greetings — a minimal but functional approach typical of American crack intros from early 1987.
Sources: CSDb · intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Part 1 of 4 // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:37:19 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0801 End: $ffff (63487 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $0f78 (3960) // IRQ handler: $ea86 (nmi_ea86) // IRQ handler: $ea31 (irq_ea31) // // Code: 319 bytes, Data: 63168 bytes // Labels: 259, Subroutines: 3 // // Verification: 2 line(s) auto-corrected to .byte for exact byte matching // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0f78-$0f80 --- .pc = $0f78 "main_0f78" main_0f78: lda #$44 sta $0288 jmp loc_1083 dat_0f80: .byte $48 // H // --- Region $0f8d-$1028 --- .pc = $0f8d "loc_0f8d" loc_0f8d: lda ($02,x) lda ($02,x) lda #$f2 bpl loc_0fad lda #$1b sta $d011 lda #$17 sta $d018 lda #$05 sta $d016 lda #$01 sta $d021 lda #$01 bne loc_0fc3 loc_0fad: lda #$3b sta $d011 lda #$d8 sta $d016 lda #$19 sta $d018 lda #$01 sta $d021 lda #$f2 loc_0fc3: sta $d012 sta $0f92 ldx $0fa0 beq loc_0fd1 dec $0fa0 loc_0fd1: jmp loc_1018 loc_0fd4: lda $0f92 bmi loc_0fdc jmp loc_1018 loc_0fdc: ldx #$07 stx $0fa0 ldy #$01 loc_0fe3: lda ($8d),y tax lda ($8b),y dey sta ($8b),y txa sta ($8d),y iny iny cpy #$28 bne loc_0fe3 loc_0ff4: ldy #$00 lda ($63),y cmp #$ff bne loc_1001 jsr sub_1060 bne loc_0ff4 loc_1001: sta $dbe7 lda ($61),y eor $029b sta $47e7 inc $61 bne loc_1012 inc $62 loc_1012: inc $63 bne loc_1018 inc $64 loc_1018: lda $0f92 bpl loc_1023 jsr sub_11ee jmp ($0314) loc_1023: jsr sub_11c3 jmp loc_ea81 // --- Region $104d-$10ba --- .pc = $104d "loc_104d" loc_104d: sta $01 lda #$81 sta $dc0d ldx #$31 ldy #$ea sei stx $0314 sty $0315 rts // Referenced by: jsr from $0ffc, $10a2 sub_1060: ldx #$19 ldy #$1c stx $63 sty $64 .byte $5a // nop // ILLEGAL