Editing Castor Cracking Group (section)

{{Short description|Swedish demo group}}
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'''Castor Cracking Group''' ('''CCG''') was a [[demo scene|demo]] group from [[Sweden]], and were active on the [[ZX Spectrum]] during 1986–1988.<ref>[http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=775 Poüet]</ref><ref>[http://demozoo.org/groups/9114/ DemoZoo]</ref><ref>[http://zxdemo.org/authors/9114/ Demotopia]</ref>  They were one of the first groups for the ZX Spectrum with their release of ''Castor Intro'' early in 1986.<ref name="CastorIntro10">CCG, ''Castor Intro 10'', 1988</ref>

Originally they named themselves after [[Castor (star)|Castor]] in the [[constellation]] [[Gemini (constellation)|Gemini]], but despite having "Crack" in their name, they actually (at least according to themselves) never [[Software cracking|cracked]] any software.<ref name="CastorIntro10" />

Technically, their demos were not very advanced – they even programmed many of them in [[BASIC]] and [[compiler|compiled]] the result for release.<ref name="CastorIntro10" />  However, their significance lies in their early entry onto the scene.