Crystal Dream 2 by Triton

[@bryede]

I really miss the days when there were still things we hadn't seen a computer do. Today I find PCs generally boring, but the ride up from monochrome text to textured 3D was amazing to live through.

[@dkyx]

The bringers of the awesomeness that was FastTracker II, and my ventures into music production. If it weren't for these guys, I wouldn't have the career I have right now.

[@djlacee]

I saw this demo about 100 times! It was my favorite! Fantastic songs, thanx to Lizardking and thanx for upload!!

[@cv643d]

Wow very nice! First time I have seen this legendary demo, usually I am not so impressed by PC demos but this one is awesome! I dare to say it, but it is better than some hi-end Amiga demos from that time!

[@DavidMauas]

What a beautiful, classic, amazing work of art! Still today, I get shivers when listening to the beginning! :) Awesome orchestration with amazing music!

[@asassinoooo]

A masterpiece. I love old demos.

[@lupinedreamexpress]

This the first one to introduce verticie collision, verticie morphs and transparent verticie cross sectioning? Impressive.

[@1337Shockwav3]

Man ... I really love how the music changes when the globe pops up. Awesome tune.

[@JulioCoutoImagens]

I'm Brazilian too, in the same year with same config (386 DX40) and running this very good demo! Today I have converted the music of this demo in MP3, and I listen in Ituntes. Congratulations for Triton Group! :-D

[@ped7g]

yes, it was top notch technology back then. Triton guys were very talented, some of them were later in the team behind unfinished game "Into the shadows" (the released running demo of engine did put us on the floor, literally, very polished and very smart tricks in coding) , which turned into "Starbreeze Studios" (games like: Knights of the Temple, The Chronicles of Riddick, and more...)

[@vapourmile]

This is a really lovely piece of work.

[@one-bell]

The music still holds up wonderfully today.

[@DrMurxTravels]

By the time of its release, this demo was really amazing - and it still is, to me. Visually stunning and a master piece of tracker music! For those of you who're interested, the score's tracks are in order: "Decalogue" by Vogue (Intro, Text scroller, Linear algebra), "Ambient Power" by Vogue (Plasma, Mandelbrot zoomer, Vector slime, Virtual reality), "Desert Dawn" by Lizardking (Rendered pictures, Torus, Vector world, Chess game), and "Trans Atlantic" by Lizardkind (Menu).

[@panti77]

the mod still gives me the chills :) sometimes miss the good old scene days.

[@CptTuttle]

I used to love this one, thank you very much for uploading!!! 5/5.

[@asassinoooo]

Che periodo meraviglioso per l'informatica! *_*

[@MichaelAnttila]

Ambient Power still sends shivers up my spine!

[@tuxicle]

Wish you guys could have completed Into the Shadows... loved the demo!

[@kordets]

This is mindblowingly awesome for me as an aspiring, beginner demo maker!

[@valeyard93]

I remember this one! Amazing graphics stuff in the early 90s seems tame today. But this was pre-Doom and Wolfenstein.

[@drdigital1]

These guys were the only threat Future Crew ever had. So ahead of their time. REAL MEN USE DOS!

[@loganlentz3069]

I still use it, Windows XP hates my cpu when in compatibility mode. My computer is an intel Centrino Duo processor clocked at 1.66Ghz. I know it's newer though im still using XP as my main OS since it's so easy to use and get familiar with. Yes, still using Windows XP in 2020, what times we're in.

[@JonasGulle]

Legendary demo

[@zeroic]

@tomcatmwi You're partly right. Crystal Dream was the one released at Hackerence '92 and Crystal Dream 2 was released at Computer Crossroads '93.

[@PearlsphereBiophilia]

Love the music!

[@fremandn]

I find it ironic that I could have seen this in perfect quality on the hardware in 1992, but I can't even watch this video without pauses due to buffering, flicker, and visual artifacts in 2009 on a relatively recent computer via KZbin.

[@cv643d]

IMHO this is quite advanced for 1992? I love the vectors in the first 2-3 minutes and the cube split in half.

[@kokopiko]

I remember it from early 90`s on COVOX. Great demo.

[@Veloaprx]

Ranked 1st at Computer Crossroads 1993 and was released there aswell... if im not totaly wrong.

[@mcgocken]

brilliant!

[@exirion9557]

Obviously rendered through emulation (visible glitches). I've watched this demo numerous times on my PCs. I still think that the sound track of this demo is the best of all demo scene music.

[@zeusgb]

Good stuff!

[@gfimadcat]

If I recall correctly, the part from 1:55 to 2:55 was considered to be really amazing at the time because there wasn't any good way to do intersecting polygons at the time... or so I kept hearing.

[@asassinoooo]

The last menu music was absolutely the best music in this demo, unfortunately it's not present in this video :°

[@rogerpenna]

Wow, I am from Brazil, and I remember running this back on my 386 DX40 in 1993... showing my friends that PC was better than a Sega Genesis. That ship part was fantastic. I wanted a game like that. It came in the form of INFERNO, but that game was not so good hehehe.

[@njsynthesis]

We are now further away from the upload of this video than the uploader was to the original demo.

[@Ama-hi5kn]

Just noticed the upload time. November 2006.

[@JulioCoutoImagens]

Ahahahah Eu também tinha um 386 DX 40Mhz em 1993 e também rodava esse demo, na minha opinião o melhor (que eu tinha acesso na epoca). Só falta tu ser de Porto Alegre também! De tanto que gostava desse demo que acabei anos mais tarde convertendo para MP3 as musicas, que são excelentes!

Very nice demo, a real classic. Seems the chess part music inspired Gustaf Grefberg and his soundtrack Keeper of Secrets :)

[@SuperShadow]

The end music is lizardking Trans atlantic. If you haven't heard the full thing, do so!

[@TamasKalman]

all music is fantastic. even now. i knew it was ahead of it's time, but i didn't expect that it was ahead this much.

[@norecess464]

This demo, conjointly with Second Reality, killed the Amiga. No good or bad smileys - they were awesome and clearly showed the path to go!

[@BlackWolf42-]

I do remember using DMP to play the tracker file. So much retrigger-retrigger-retrigger-retrigger-retrigger.

[@TomaszBednarz]

it was running on my 386 SX, 16MHz

[@panti77]

king of doskpop ... lking..

[@bernatk]

OMG, this was like 100 years ago lol.

[@JulioCoutoImagens]

Tanks for this demo! You should be recorded Credit music too, it´s very good too. ;-)

[@Databamse]

It is amazing how much money they could make by using sine and cosine in the days.

[@kinmanyuen]

wow... music, the golden age of MOD

[@bkooy]

Briljant!

[@leerees]

This is the first time I've ever heard the GUS, it sounds so clean compared to sb software mixing. Wish I had the GUS back in those days!

[@Bajsnissse]

Most of the songs in the beginning of the demo were made by Vogue and NOT Lizardking. Lizardking made tunes at the end.

[@darkbit1001]

@dh2k word. It's kind of funny to me now that I hear a lot more 'demo' music in mainstream now! :)

[@MoebiusDahl]

I had a 80386SX AMD, and in that times it was perfect. :-D

[@1337Shockwav3Games]

@kokopiko Best thing ... it's still great on covoxes in 2010 :D Use this demo as a test for all covox plugs and/or boards I solder. In fact I blame this demo on me currently soldering a stereo covox.

[@tuxicle]

This was rendered entirely in software, so can't be a video card issue.

[@asassinoooo]

Hey... you cutted off the music of the main menu (to the end)... :(

[@Gligar13Vids]

better graphics than undertale

[@agrecascinogameplaym]

+/home/gligar13 holy fuck you commented on this

[@Slay1337pl]

+/home/gligar13 muh aesthetics

[@BenM64]

Still runs on a Pentium 1, right? Undertale can't.

[@mptcultist]

This runs on my 486 DX2/66.

[@negrotaku6299]

I'm not afraid to cut a nigga through the goddamn internet.

[@andrx04]

does someone know what is the name of starbreeze demoscene i mean their CUBE in riddick ????

[@breakdanc3]

if was an ordinary gamer or what not i would think this is pretty lame, Since i started learning C++ and a little bit about what goes into creating graphics, this video is simply Amazing ......

[@rogerpenna]

the internet is a small place, believe it or not. I´ve already met accidentaly other SSP forumers in other places, like a science fiction forum, etc.

[@pablodeheras]

Masterpiece! /Paulus (Prophets/CorridaSoft)

[@asassinoooo]

Hey, the credit song was GREAT... why don't you have included it? :|

[@pikuorguk]

Linear algebra... the best kind :)

[@rogerpenna]

yes, I do happen to be that person. Did you arrived here by following the link on Check This Out Too? lol

[@tuxicle]

Probably XM - this is a Triton prod, remember?

[@zeroic]

I did not do the original captures, but I guess it's a DosBox glitch :)

[@j.m.1187]

The credits aussi molan Future Crew, Triton and the bourbon it's the best o casi

[@one-bell]

did you do this in a VM or something? Some of the effects, namely the fading in of the text line by line seem to not be working properly, and polys are dropping out. This is close to, but not a 100% accurate representation of this work.

[@RacerXGTO]

I still have this executable. LOL. "CD2.EXE" It won't run on anything with the latest system board architecture. I have an old Thinkpad MMX that runs it just fine LOL

[@rogerpenna]

not from Porto Alegre, I am from Novo Hamburgo.

[@panti77]

my first "copy-party" tcc'93" :)

[@Bajsnissse]

Why not just use a DOS emulator?

[@ballebanan]

Lol. People still with the Amiga vs. PC silly war. You needed a $2000 PC to run this, with a Gravis Ultrasound. You seem to forget that the typical Amiga demo was made on a $400 piece of equipment. There was no way you could make even an Amiga type demo on a $400 PC, because no $400 PC existed.

[@1337Shockwav3]

2016 and people still go "meh, Amiga was better". I guess the folks asking if the GUS re-issue I'm working on can be put into a modern "Amiga" are as silly as I thought. Sorry, but this demo is one of the final nails in the coffin of the Amiga.

[@mirabilis]

Why not both?

[@SteveTheDrunk]

Sorry Amiga is better!

[@SerBallister]

I used to write Amiga demos on the A1200, and was envious of PCs at the time, especially for textured polygon stuff. While a nice machine to program and it had some really nice features its raw performance was awful compared to a 486-66 running mode0x13/modeX.

[@tubeMonger]

You just proved why Amiga is better.

[@Ama-hi5kn]

Gravis Ultrasound. Which was expensive as hell when it came out. But you really needed it for this one. It really took a load off the CPU. If you had a SoundBlaster it struggles to run even on a 486.

[@sevendump]

This is not true, this demo works great with Sound Blaster even on a 386 40MHz.

[@asassinoooo]

5:50 ... google earth in 1992 :D

[@ibm5155]

galaxy mini could play this demo o_o in silence

[@boldaoshin9807]

Goody shacker

[@thany3]

Too bad this is a recording of the demo in a DOS emulator/simulator. I recognize the glitches. Who's the real boss to record in in actual MS-DOS?

[@SteveTheDrunk]

Should have won!

[@DaniellosRulezz]

Кто в теме палец вверх! Who in the subject thumbs up!

[@olaljungars6463]

soo Amigaish

[@ballebanan]

This demo was great, but I remember it ran like sh*t on my old 386-25 with Soundblaster 2.0 :D