Triton (TRN) was a

demogroup Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer based audio-visual works of art known as demos. Demogroups form a subculture collectively known as the demoscene. Groups frequently consist of students, young computer enthusiasts who spend ...

active in the PC

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from 1992 to about 1996.

History

Triton's first demo, ''Crystal Dream'', was released in the summer of 1992 and won the PC demo competition at the Hackerence V demo party. Their second and last demo, ''Crystal Dream 2'', 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 composer called

Fast Tracker FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton (who later founded Starbreeze Studios) which set about releasing their own tra ...

, followed by the XM module composer Fast Tracker 2 in 1994. Triton created a commercial demo for Gravis Ultrasound cards. Most of their work was done using a combination of x86

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and

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using either

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or Borland Pascal 7 compilers. Triton began developing on a fighting game 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, that merged with ''O3 Games'' in 2001.

Members

* Team founders (1992): ** Vogue (Magnus Högdahl) - code, music ** Mr. H (Fredrik Huss) - code ** Loot (Anders Aldengård) - graphics, raytracing * Members hired in 1993: ** Lizardking (

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) - music ** Joachim (Joachim Barrum) - graphics ** Alt (Mikko Tähtinen) - graphics

Releases

* Crystal Dream (1992, demo, 1st at Hackerence 92) * Crystal Dream 2 (1993, demo, 1st at The Computer Crossroads 93) *

FastTracker 2 FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton (who later founded Starbreeze Studios) which set about releasing their own tr ...

(1995, tracker)

References

External links

Triton archive
on

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Triton
on Demozoo
Starbreeze Studios Website
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