History
- Released
- 26 April 2010
- Code
- Ksubi
- Music
- Adam (Adam Morton) — "Clean Ring"
- Design
- Mabel
- Group
- Neophytes — Australia, founded 29 November 2008
A modern-era crack intro from the Neophytes — an Australian group founded on 29 November 2008, making them one of the youngest groups in the ranked collection. Released on 26 April 2010, this intro was produced when C64 cracking had long shifted from commercial piracy to a preservation-oriented hobby. Ksubi coded the intro while Adam Morton composed "Clean Ring," an original SID tune preserved in the HVSC. Mabel contributed to the design. The intros.c64.org listing generated four comments in 2011 from Conrad, Ksubi, Daison, and Twoflower — a warm reception from established scene members welcoming a new generation. The group's name — Neophytes, meaning beginners or newcomers — was a self-aware acknowledgment of their late arrival to a scene that had been running for over two decades. Based in Australia, the Neophytes followed in the footsteps of Onslaught and other Southern Hemisphere groups that kept the C64 cracking tradition alive well past its commercial relevance.
Sources: CSDb
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-11 21:36:23 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $2a00 (8705 bytes) // Crunched with Cruncher AB — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $0811 (2065) // // Code: 336 bytes, Data: 8369 bytes // Labels: 121, Subroutines: 3 // // Verification: 2 line(s) auto-corrected to .byte for exact byte matching // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $0811-$08af --- .pc = $0811 "main_0811" main_0811: sei lda #$35 ldx #$01 ldy #$7f sta $01 stx $d019 stx $d01a dex stx $d418 stx $d012 sty $dc0d sty $dd0d bit $dc0d bit $dd0d dex ldy #$08 stx $fffe sty $ffff dex stx $fffc sty $fffd dex stx $fffa sty $fffb dex jsr sub_0852 cli loc_084f: jmp loc_084f // Referenced by: jsr from $084b; branch from $0855 sub_0852: bit $d011 bmi sub_0852 loc_0857: bit $d011 bpl loc_0857 ldx #$01 stx $d020 stx $d021 ldx #$00 lda #$03 loc_0868: sta $d800,x sta $d900,x sta $da00,x sta $db00,x inx bne loc_0868 lda #$20 loc_0879: sta $0400,x sta $0500,x sta $0600,x sta $0700,x inx bne loc_0879 loc_0888: lda txt_0e00,x sta $0510,x lda $0f00,x sta $0610,x inx bne loc_0888 lda #$1b ldx #$18 ldy #$08 sta $d011 stx $d018 sty $d016 lda #$00 jsr sub_1000 jsr sub_0d40 rts dat_08af: // === Data block (1 bytes, $08af-$08af) === .byte $ad // . // --- Region $0d40-$0dea --- .pc = $0d40 "sub_0d40" // Referenced by: jsr from $08ab sub_0d40: ldx #$ff stx $d015 stx $d01b inx stx $d01c stx $d01d stx $d01c stx $d01d ldy #$0c sty $d027 sty $d028 sty $d029 sty $d02a sty $d02b sty $d02c ldx #$30 stx $07f8 stx $07f9 inx stx $07fa stx $07fb ldx #$7a stx $d001 stx $d003 ldx #$34 stx $d000 ldx #$2a stx $d002 ldx #$17 stx $d010 ldx #$63 stx $d005 ldx #$06 stx $d004 ldx #$03 stx $d029