History

Triton's first demo, Crystal Dream, was released in the summer of 1992 and won the PC demo competition at the Hackerence

Hackerence

Hackerence was a long-lived demoparty and LAN party held twice a year in Härnösand, Sweden during the 1990s.The demo by Triton, precursor to the famous Crystal Dream 2, is perhaps the most well-known entry among the Hackerence compo winners.-History:...

 V demo party. Their second and last demo, Crystal Dream 2

Crystal Dream 2

Crystal Dream 2 is a PC demo by the demogroup Triton. It was released in 1993 at The Computer Crossroads demo party where it ranked 1st.Crystal Dream 2 is often considered one of the most influential classical PC demos, on par with Second Reality, released the same year by Future Crew.-...

, was released June 1993 and won the demo competition at The Computer Crossroads 1993 party in Gothenburg. In 1993 they released a multi-channel MOD

MOD (file format)

MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.MOD” file extension, except on the Amiga where the original trackers instead use a “mod.” prefix scheme, e.g. “mod.echoing”...

 composer called Fast Tracker

Fast Tracker

FastTracker 2 is a tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton which set about releasing their own tracker after breaking into the scene in 1992 and winning several demo competitions. The source code of FastTracker 2 is written in Pascal...

, followed by the XM module composer Fast Tracker 2 in 1994.

Most of their work was done using a combination of x86 assembler

Assembly language

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...

 and Pascal

Pascal (programming language)

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...

 using either Turbo Pascal

Turbo Pascal

Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment for the Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership...

 or Borland Pascal 7 compilers.

Triton began developing on an RPG named Into the Shadows. A game demo showing a character was released in 1995, but the development was stopped thereafter. In 1998, some of Triton's members founded the computer game development company Starbreeze Studios

Starbreeze Studios

Starbreeze Studios is a video game development studio founded by members of the demo group Triton, based in Uppsala, Sweden.-History:The company was founded in 1998, under the name O3 Games. In 2000, O3 Games merged with the smaller company Starbreeze Studios which was then based in Härnösand, Sweden...

, that merged with O3 Games in 2001.

Members

• Vogue (Magnus Högdahl) - code, music
• Mr. H (Fredrik Huss) - code
• Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg
  Gustaf Grefberg
  Gustaf Grefberg is a Swedish musician. As part of the Amiga scene, he is known under the artist name Lizardking, and much of his production is tracker music. He is or has been a member of the demo groups Alcatraz, The Silents, Razor 1911, The Black Lotus and Triton...
  
  ) - music
• Loot (Anders Aldengård) - graphics, raytracing
• Alt (Mikko Tähtinen) - graphics
• Hippie

Releases

• Crystal Dream (1992, demo, 1^st at Hackerence
  Hackerence
  Hackerence was a long-lived demoparty and LAN party held twice a year in Härnösand, Sweden during the 1990s.The demo by Triton, precursor to the famous Crystal Dream 2, is perhaps the most well-known entry among the Hackerence compo winners.-History:...
  
   92)
• Crystal Dream 2
  Crystal Dream 2
  Crystal Dream 2 is a PC demo by the demogroup Triton. It was released in 1993 at The Computer Crossroads demo party where it ranked 1st.Crystal Dream 2 is often considered one of the most influential classical PC demos, on par with Second Reality, released the same year by Future Crew.-...
  
   (1993, demo, 1^st at The Computer Crossroads 93)
• FastTracker 2
  Fast Tracker
  FastTracker 2 is a tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton which set about releasing their own tracker after breaking into the scene in 1992 and winning several demo competitions. The source code of FastTracker 2 is written in Pascal...
  
   (1995, tracker)

External links

• Triton archive on Pouet
• Starbreeze Studios Website