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- Group
- Jewels — Netherlands
A crack intro from Jewels, a group with roots in the Dutch C64 scene. The CSDb search returned numerous group releases but the matched entry — "Jewels of Babylon" — is catalogued as a game crack rather than a standalone intro, with no individual credits beyond an unattributed "Crack" role. CSDb documents an extensive Jewels catalogue including over fifteen crack intros, logo screens, music rips, and zip compilations, indicating a group that was both active in cracking and in producing demo-style content. The group is indexed on CSDb under group ID 699. The scener data associated with the CSDb search results indicates a Netherlands connection. No documentation appears on Doc Snyder's page, Demozoo, or in preserved diskmag archives. The intros.c64.org listing carries a single comment from Twoflower (2007). Jewels appears to have operated primarily within the Dutch and broader European trading networks during the late 1980s, producing a respectable body of work across scene archives.
Sources: CSDb
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:51 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $d030 (51249 bytes) // Crunched with PuCrunch — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $2f00 (12032) // IRQ handler: $2054 (irq_2054) // IRQ handler: $9ddf (irq_9ddf) // // Code: 2626 bytes, Data: 48623 bytes // Labels: 259, Subroutines: 21 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $1009-$14cb --- .pc = $1009 "sub_1009" // Referenced by: jsr from $2040; jmp from $1ddc sub_1009: jmp loc_1d88 dat_100c: .byte $4c,$be // L. loc_100e: .label sub_100f = * + 1 ora $9e2c,x asl $30,x rol bvc loc_1056 ldx $169c loc_1019: lda #$00 ldy dat_158e,x sta $d404,y sta $1592,x sta $1595,x sta $1598,x sta $159e,x sta $d406,y lda #$1b sta $15b8,x dex bpl loc_1019 sta $169e jmp loc_14c1 loc_103e: bvc loc_1053 lda #$00 ldx $169c loc_1045: ldy dat_158e,x sta $d404,y dex bpl loc_1045 lda #$80 sta $169e loc_1053: jmp loc_14c1 loc_1056: ldx $169c dec $169b bpl loc_1066 lda #$70 sta $169b jmp loc_1071 loc_1066: dec $1688 bpl loc_1071 lda $169a sta $1688 loc_1071: lda dat_158e,x sta $1591 tay lda $169b beq loc_1097 lda $1688 cmp $169a bne loc_1097 lda $1aa8,x sta $f8 lda $1aab,x sta $f9 dec $1598,x bmi loc_109a jmp loc_11b5 loc_1097: jmp loc_11d9 loc_109a: ldy $1592,x lda ($f8),y bpl loc_10be cmp #$ff beq loc_10b0 and #$7f sta $177d,x inc $1592,x jmp loc_109a loc_10b0: lda #$00 sta $1598,x sta $1592,x sta $1595,x jmp loc_109a loc_10be: tay lda $1ab4,y sta $fa lda $1ad8,y sta $fb lda #$00 sta $16a8,x sta $1728,x sta $1779,x lda #$40 sta $173b,x ldy $1595,x lda #$ff sta $15e6,x lda ($fa),y sta $159b,x sta $1615 and #$1f sta $1598,x bit $1615 bvs loc_1135 inc $1595,x lda $1615 bpl loc_1115 iny lda ($fa),y