History
- Code
- Firefox
- Music
- Brizz (Stefan Sebastian) — "Braintoolz #2"
- Graphics
- Brainsmasher
- Group
- Axicon — Germany, founded 1998
A crack intro from Axicon, a German group founded in 1998 — well into the C64's second life as a hobbyist platform. Firefox coded the intro, Brainsmasher provided the graphics, and Brizz (Stefan Sebastian) contributed the music with "Braintoolz #2," preserved in the HVSC. The release date is unrecorded on CSDb, though the group's 1998 founding suggests a late-era production. Axicon used the short tag "AXC" and appears to have been a relatively small group with limited documentation across scene archives. No scrolltext or additional historical context has been recovered from Demozoo, Doc Snyder's page, or Freeze64. The intro represents the continued vitality of the German C64 scene even as the platform entered its nostalgic revival phase in the late 1990s.
Sources: CSDb
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:09 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0700 End: $3fff (14592 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080b (via BASIC SYS 2059) // Entry point: $0b80 (2944) // IRQ handler: $282b (irq_282b) // // Code: 2171 bytes, Data: 12421 bytes // Labels: 304, Subroutines: 16 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0b00-$0b4e --- .pc = $0b00 "sub_0b00" // Referenced by: jsr from $0b8d sub_0b00: { lda #$00 sta $d020 sta $d021 jsr $e544 ldx #$00 loop1: lda #$0d sta $d800,x sta $d840,x inx cpx #$ff bne loop1 jsr sub_1000 jsr sub_2800 ldx #$00 loop2: lda txt_0a00,x sta $0540,x inx cpx #$ff bne loop2 rts } // Referenced by: jsr from $28cc sub_0b2e: ldx #$00 lda chr_0b4f loc_0b33: sta $d990,x inx cpx #$28 bne loc_0b33 ldx #$00 ldy chr_0b4f loc_0b40: lda $0b50,x sta chr_0b4f,x inx cpx #$1f bne loc_0b40 sty $0b6e rts // --- Region $0b80-$0bab --- .pc = $0b80 "main_0b80" main_0b80: lda #$0f sta $d021 sta $d020 lda #$ea sta $0328 jsr sub_0b00 loc_0b90: jsr $ffe4 cmp #$20 beq loc_0b9a jmp loc_0b90 loc_0b9a: sei jsr $fd15 jsr $fda3 jsr $ff5b lda #$08 sta $de00 jmp $fce2 // --- Region $0d00-$0d4e --- .pc = $0d00 "sub_0d00" // Referenced by: jsr from $28cf, $28d2 sub_0d00: inc $58 lda $58 and #$03 beq loc_0d09 rts loc_0d09: inc $59 lda $59 and #$3f tax lda $0c60,x ldx #$4f loc_0d15: sta $d9e0,x dex bpl loc_0d15 lda $59 and #$3f beq loc_0d22 rts loc_0d22: ldx #$28 loc_0d24: .label smc_0d25 = * + 1 .label smc_0d26 = * + 2 lda txt_3000,x // !SMC: modified by $0d33, $0d45, $0d4a sta $05e0,x dex bpl loc_0d24 lda smc_0d25 clc adc #$28 sta smc_0d25 // SMC: modifies $0d25 bcc loc_0d3b inc smc_0d26 loc_0d3b: lda smc_0d26 cmp #$32 beq loc_0d43 rts loc_0d43: lda #$30