History
- Released
- 1985
- Code
- Crackman
- Music
- Mark II (Darius Zendeh) — original SID
- Graphics
- Unknown
- Group
- Crackman Crew — Germany, founded 1984
One of the earliest surviving German crack intros, appearing on over a dozen Crackman Crew releases from 1985. The intro features hardware sprites alongside rasterbars and original SID music composed by Mark II (Darius Zendeh), a tune so well-crafted it was reused by at least eight other groups and productions over the following years. Crackman Crew occupied the same pioneering tier as #32 GCS and 1001 Crew, bringing structured intro culture to the German cracking scene in the earliest days. Mark II later joined Red Sector Inc. and became a prominent Amiga scene musician.
Sources: CSDb · CSDb group · Demozoo
crm-01.asm 692 lines
// ============================================ // crm-01 - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 vdisasm-one 1.0 build 1, 2026-03-29 17:54:10 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0340 End: $ffff (64704 bytes) // Crunched with Crackman Pack — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $0827 (via BASIC SYS 2087) // Entry point: $e056 (57430) // // Code: 601 bytes, Data: 64103 bytes // Labels: 61, Subroutines: 0 // // Verification: 5 line(s) auto-corrected to .byte for exact byte matching // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0827-$0838 --- .pc = $0827 "loc_0827" loc_0827: ldx #$00 loc_0829: lda dat_0838,x sta $0100,x inx bne loc_0829 ldx #$ff txs jmp $0100 dat_0838: .byte $78 // x // --- Region $cf41-$cf41 --- .pc = $cf41 "loc_cf41" loc_cf41: brk // --- Region $cf7f-$cfe4 --- .pc = $cf7f "loc_cf7f" loc_cf7f: lda $ce00,x and $47 ora $0680,x sta $0680,x lda $ce40,x and $47 .label loc_cf90 = * + 1 ora $06c0,x sta $06c0,x dex bne loc_cf7f jsr $02a7 jsr $02a7 lda $47 ror sta $47 bcc loc_cf7f clc ldx #$0d ldy #$0a jsr $fff0 ldx #$00 loc_cfaf: lda $080b,x jsr $ffd2 inx cpx #$15 bne loc_cfaf lda #$8a sta $0844 lda #$db sta $0840 lda #$0c sta $086a lda #$f9 sta $0864 lda #$0a sta $0872 lda #$00 sta $086e lda #$fc sta $08bb lda #$e2 sta $08ba jmp loc_0827 // --- Region $e049-$e067 --- .pc = $e049 "loc_e049" loc_e049: lda $e260,x sta $ce00,x lda $e360,x sta $cf00,x dex main_e056: bne loc_e049 ldx #$51 loc_e05a: lda loc_e445,x sta $02a7,x dex bpl loc_e05a jmp loc_cf41 dat_e066: .byte $03,$ff // .. // --- Region $e3a9-$e488 --- .pc = $e3a9 "loc_e3a9" loc_e3a9: ldx #$05 loc_e3ab: dec $d000,x dex dex bpl loc_e3ab inx stx $d020 stx $d021 jsr $02a7 loc_e3bc: lda $d001 cmp #$34 bne loc_e3a9 ldx #$00 lda #$00 loc_e3c7: sta $da80,x sta $0680,x sta $dac0,x sta $06c0,x dex bne loc_e3c7