History
- Released
- 28 January 1987
- Music
- Gyroscope 3 by Electro (André)
- Group
- Plutonium Crackers — Germany, founded 1982
Ranked #4 on intros.c64.org, this Plutonium Crackers release is catalogued on CSDb as "Plutonium Crackers 2001 Crack Intro 3" with a release date of 28 January 1987. The soundtrack is "Gyroscope 3" by André — better known as Electro — and Doc Snyder's page confirms the music credit and links the SID. The scrolltext dates a subsequent crack to 29 April 1987 and names the group's lineup: Alien, CJW, Don, CPU and TOS, with postal addresses in West Berlin. Greetings go out to Popeye, the New Bencor Brothers, Triad, Trianon, Yeti, Micro Mix, Danish Gold, Wizax, AEK Crackware, TLF, CFO, TDC, RDI and Krabat. Plutonium Crackers were founded in Germany in 1982, making them one of the older continental cracking groups active at the time of this release. A second scrolltext screen closes with the slogan "kill gaddafi," placing the intro firmly in the geopolitical pop culture of early 1987.
Sources: CSDb · docsnyderspage
// ============================================ // output - Disassembled Source // ============================================ // KickAssembler syntax // Generated by Restore 64 v0.2.1 alpha build 298, 2026-04-01 10:59:29 // https://restore64.dev by datucker / Rabenauge // // Load address: $0801 End: $ffff (63487 bytes) // Crunched with NSU Packer 1.1 — depacked by emulation // Packer entry: $080d (via BASIC SYS 2061) // Entry point: $c000 (49152) // IRQ handler: $ea31 (irq_ea31) // IRQ handler: $c1b7 (irq_c1b7) // // Code: 1319 bytes, Data: 62168 bytes // Labels: 181, Subroutines: 20 // // Verification: 4 line(s) auto-corrected to .byte for exact byte matching // // Cross-references: all OK // ============================================ // --- Region $148d-$148d --- .pc = $148d "Segment $148d" brk // --- Region $8dd0-$8dd0 --- .pc = $8dd0 "Segment $8dd0" brk // --- Region $c000-$c083 --- .pc = $c000 "main_c000" main_c000: jsr sub_c6ed lda #$00 sta $d011 lda #$00 sta $fb lda #$c2 sta $fc lda #$37 sta $fd lda #$c2 sta $fe lda #$00 sta $92 lda #$c3 sta $93 lda #$28 sta $94 lda #$c4 sta $95 lda #$00 sta $c6 lda #$e1 sta $0328 lda #$0e jsr $ffd2 lda #$08 jsr $ffd2 jsr sub_c57b lda #$04 sta $dd00 lda #$12 sta $d018 lda #$c4 sta $0288 jsr sub_ce00 jsr sub_c1a0 jsr sub_c57b jsr sub_c6f3 loc_c059: jsr sub_c100 jsr sub_c0f9 jsr sub_ce60 jsr sub_c0f9 jsr sub_c6c0 jsr sub_c0f9 jsr sub_c6d0 jsr sub_c0f9 jsr sub_c0f9 lda #$ff sta $dc01 lda $dc01 cmp #$ff bne loc_c0c0 jmp loc_c059 scr_c083: // === Screen RAM (1 bytes, $c083-$c083) === .encoding "screencode_mixed" .text "@" .encoding "petscii_upper" // --- Region $c09a-$c195 --- .pc = $c09a "sub_c09a" // Referenced by: jsr from $c1ef, $ce73, $feb2 sub_c09a: ldy #$00 loc_c09c: lda $dbc0,y sta $0340,y iny cpy #$27 bne loc_c09c ldy #$00 loc_c0a9: lda $0340,y sta $dbc1,y sta chr_d800,y iny cpy #$27 bne loc_c0a9 .label smc_c0b8 = * + 1 lda $c5b2 // !SMC: modified by $c7bb sta $dbc0 jmp loc_c7ab loc_c0c0: sei lda #$31 sta $0314 lda #$ea sta $0315 lda #$97 sta $dd00 lda #$15 sta $d018 lda #$04 sta $0288 lda #$c8 sta $d016 lda #$00 sta $d020 sta $d021 sta $d015 sta $d418 sta $d01a lda #$93 jsr $ffd2 jmp loc_fce2 scr_c0f8: // === Screen RAM (1 bytes, $c0f8-$c0f8) ===