History
- Group
- The Metro Boys — Germany, founded March 1984
The sole ranked intro from The Metro Boys, a German cracking and demo group founded in March 1984 and dissolved in August 1987. CSDb documents the group under ID 2016, noting it was "built by Snoopy and Tommy" as a local operation — the members "did not even know that they got famous" and originally operated "just for fun." According to the group's CSDb trivia, they "did not use any intros" on most of their releases, relying instead on handles alone, which makes this catalogued intro a notable exception. The founding date of March 1984 places The Metro Boys among the earliest German C64 cracking groups. A separate Turkish group also called The Metro Boys (CSDb ID 7877, founded 1988) should not be confused with this German outfit. Members Snoopy and Tommy handled both coding and cracking duties, with additional contributions from Eskimo (coder and hardware specialist) and Leffty (coder). The group produced only two documented demo releases on CSDb.
Sources: CSDb Group · intros.c64.org
// ============================================ // output - Part 1 of 2 // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:35:56 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $ffff (63488 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 (with relocation) — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $0810 (via BASIC SYS 2064) // Entry point: $0fa0 (4000) // IRQ handler: $08a2 (irq_08a2) // IRQ handler: $0932 (irq_0932) // IRQ handler: $0970 (irq_0970) // IRQ handler: $09a5 (irq_09a5) // IRQ handler: $09d4 (irq_09d4) // IRQ handler: $09f9 (irq_09f9) // IRQ handler: $0a1e (irq_0a1e) // IRQ handler: $0900 (loc_0900) // // Code: 1739 bytes, Data: 61749 bytes // Labels: 290, Subroutines: 6 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0810-$08c6 --- .pc = $0810 "loc_0810" loc_0810: sei lda #$a2 sta $0314 lda #$08 sta $0315 lda #$01 sta $d019 sta $d01a sta $dc0d lda #$1b loc_0828: sta $d011 lda #$18 sta $d018 ldx #$0f lda #$00 loc_0834: sta loc_0810,x dex bpl loc_0834 lda #$0f sta $0286 lda #$d8 sta $d016 jsr $e544 ldx #$04 stx $f9 ldx #$07 stx $f8 ldx #$00 loc_0851: lda dat_1800,x sta $0400,x lda $1891,x sta $0491,x dex bne loc_0851 lda #$35 sta $01 ldx #$08 loc_0866: ldy #$00 loc_0868: lda dat_1000,y sta $e000,y iny bne loc_0868 inc $086d inc $086a dex bne loc_0866 lda #$37 sta $01 lda #$80 sta $40 lda #$1b sta $41 lda #$00 sta $9e lda #$1a sta $9f lda #$08 jsr $ffd2 lda #$e1 sta $0328 cli jmp loc_0f70 dat_089c: .byte $3c,$d0,$fa,$4c,$b0,$0a // <..L.. irq_08a2: lda #$00 sta $1003 jsr sub_0b80 jmp loc_0900 dat_08ad: .byte $e0,$50,$00 // .P. // Referenced by: jsr from $09f0 sub_08b0: lda #$35 sta $01 jsr $e03f lda #$37 sta $01 jsr sub_0a70 jsr sub_0b00 lda #$ce sta $d012 rts // --- Region $0900-$0a57 --- .pc = $0900 "loc_0900" loc_0900: sei lda #$01 sta $d019 lda $d011 and #$30 ora #$18 sta $d011 lda #$d8 sta $d016 lda #$04 sta $d022 lda #$05 sta $d023 lda #$32 sta $0314 lda #$09 sta $0315