Triton (demogroup)

Triton (TRN) was a demogroup^[1] active in the PC demoscene from 1992 to about 1996.

History[edit]

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^[2] 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, followed by the XM module composer Fast Tracker 2 in 1994.^[3]

Triton created a commercial demo for Gravis Ultrasound cards.^[4]

Most of their work was done using a combination of x86 assembler and Pascal using either Turbo Pascal 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,^[5]^[6] that merged with O3 Games in 2001.

Members[edit]

Team founders (1992):
- Vogue (Magnus Högdahl) - code, music
- Mr. H (Fredrik Huss) - code
- Loot (Anders Aldengård) - graphics, raytracing
Members hired in 1993:
- Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg) - music
- Joachim (Joachim Barrum) - graphics
- Alt (Mikko Tähtinen) - graphics

Releases[edit]

Crystal Dream (1992, demo, 1st at Hackerence 92)
Crystal Dream 2 (1993, demo, 1st at The Computer Crossroads 93)
FastTracker 2 (1995, tracker)

References[edit]

^ "'Demos' Make their Mark on the Net". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 4. 1997-01-25. p. 94. ISSN 0006-2510.
^ Melik, David (2012-06-08). The Demoscene (PDF) (Senior Colloquium). CWU.^{[dead link]}
^ Sandström, Göran (2013). "Chiptunes and the Early Days of Tracker Sequencers". Procedural Sequencing: A New Form of Procedural Music Creation (Thesis). Kristianstad University. p. 9. urn:urn:urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10699:{{{2}}}. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
^ Reunanen, Markku (2010). Computer Demos - What Makes Them Tick? (Thesis). Aalto University. p. 41. urn:urn:URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201206142600:{{{2}}}.
^ Goldberg, Daniel; Larsson, Linus (2015). Minecraft, Second Edition: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-686-6.
^ Gestalt (1999-11-11). "An interview with Starbreeze, the Swedish company behind fantasy role playing game Sorcery". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 2016-02-21.

External links[edit]

[1] "'Demos' Make their Mark on the Net". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 4. 1997-01-25. p. 94. ISSN 0006-2510.

[2] Melik, David (2012-06-08). The Demoscene (PDF) (Senior Colloquium). CWU.^{[dead link]}

[3] Sandström, Göran (2013). "Chiptunes and the Early Days of Tracker Sequencers". Procedural Sequencing: A New Form of Procedural Music Creation (Thesis). Kristianstad University. p. 9. urn:urn:urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10699:{{{2}}}. Retrieved 2021-06-05.

[4] Reunanen, Markku (2010). Computer Demos - What Makes Them Tick? (Thesis). Aalto University. p. 41. urn:urn:URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201206142600:{{{2}}}.

[5] Goldberg, Daniel; Larsson, Linus (2015). Minecraft, Second Edition: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-686-6.

[6] Gestalt (1999-11-11). "An interview with Starbreeze, the Swedish company behind fantasy role playing game Sorcery". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 2016-02-21.

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