History
- Released
- April 1995
- Group
- Pirates Versus Copyright (PVC) -- United Kingdom
A crack intro from Pirates Versus Copyright, a British group whose full name overtly declares the ideological stance that animated much of the C64 cracking scene. Released in April 1995, this arrived extremely late in the platform's commercial lifecycle -- by that point, most cracking groups had disbanded or migrated to the Amiga and PC. No individual credits for code, music, or graphics are recorded on CSDb, and no SID files are associated with the release. The group's CSDb profile lists no founding date and no known members, suggesting PVC operated with minimal visibility in the broader scene. No Demozoo listing, Doc Snyder page, or Lemon64 discussion exists for the group. The 1995 release date places this among the final generation of C64 crack intros, produced when the remaining sceners were a small, dedicated core keeping the platform 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 21:36:31 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0800 End: $2fff (10240 bytes) // Crunched with Exomizer v2/v3 — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080b (via BASIC SYS 2059) // Entry point: $2000 (8192) // IRQ handler: $2094 (irq_2094) // // Code: 424 bytes, Data: 9816 bytes // Labels: 85, Subroutines: 2 // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $128d-$128d --- .pc = $128d "Segment $128d" brk // --- Region $158d-$158d --- .pc = $158d "Segment $158d" brk // --- Region $2000-$20d4 --- .pc = $2000 "main_2000" main_2000: sei nop nop nop nop nop lda #$94 sta $0314 lda #$20 sta $0315 lda #$81 sta $d01a lda #$7f sta $dc0d lda #$1b sta $d011 lda #$21 sta $d012 lda #$00 sta $0811 lda #$12 sta $d018 ldy #$00 lda #$08 sta $d021 sta $0286 jsr $e544 lda #$00 sta $d021 sta $d020 ldy #$d8 loc_2045: lda $0dff,y sta $03ff,y lda $0ed7,y sta $04d7,y dey bne loc_2045 lda #$d8 sta $d016 ldx #$27 loc_205b: lda #$01 jsr sub_2850 lda txt_2100,x clc adc #$20 sta $0658,x dex bpl loc_205b ldx #$0f loc_206e: lda $2168,x clc adc #$20 sta $07d7,x lda #$01 sta $dbd7,x dex bpl loc_206e lda #$00 sta $2753 lda #$29 sta $2754 cli loc_208a: lda $dc01 and #$10 bne loc_208a jmp loc_2d60 irq_2094: .label smc_2095 = * + 1 .label smc_2096 = * + 2 jsr sub_2200 // !SMC: modified by $20c7, $20cd lda #$ff sta $d019 inc $0811 lda $0811 cmp #$04 bne loc_20ab lda #$00 sta $0811 loc_20ab: asl tax lda $20d4,x sta $0812 lda $d011 and #$7f ora $0812 sta $d011 lda dat_20d3,x sta $d012 lda $20db,x sta smc_2095 // SMC: modifies $2095 lda $20dc,x sta smc_2096 // SMC: modifies $2096 jmp $febc dat_20d3: // === Data block (2 bytes, $20d3-$20d4) === .byte $32,$00 // 2. // --- Region $2200-$22b9 --- .pc = $2200 "sub_2200" // Referenced by: jsr from $2094 sub_2200: ldy #$00 loc_2202: .label smc_2203 = * + 1