Very kind, thank u very much!Well, it's not much to go on, but maybe we can still find it? I may be doing some internet searches soon. Wish me luck!
Very kind, thank u very much!Well, it's not much to go on, but maybe we can still find it? I may be doing some internet searches soon. Wish me luck!
I already stumpled upon this one a few times. Seems to be one of the more famous/known ones although it's worse compared to the one I'm looking for in every aspect (which again makes me wonder why mine isn't that famous as it seems).This is a video of one that was released in 1990. It's crudely made, but it has a snowman, Christmas Tree, and manger scene. From your description, this doesn't sound like it, but it's interesting.
What the ... what's up with that bear?!This one is a set of candles that light up for each week of Advent; typing in "advent.exe windows 3 download" in DuckDuckGo pulled this up. It doesn't seem like it either, and the link is broken, anyway.
https://en.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/Advent-Calendar.html
Mother of god.There's a strange program on Internet Archive called "SantaZia", released 1996. It's supposed to be an advent calendar and game. I have my doubts, but it seems interesting.
https://archive.org/details/SANTAZIA
I will dig into them as soon as I find time. Thanks!First thing I thought of was https://www.google.com/search?q=site:cd.textfiles.com+"advent"+calendar . One of those, maybe?
Unfortunately it was not among them.First thing I thought of was https://www.google.com/search?q=site:cd.textfiles.com+"advent"+calendar . One of those, maybe?
It's the first christmas where my wife 'n me got our own f*cking christmas tree so I'm pretty fine this year, at least in real life.Man, it would be nice to have that advent calendar by now... Sorry, buddy. Hopefully, you have a pretty good alternative.
Well, at least you get to decorate your colorful words with Christmas stars. I truly am sorry about not being able to find it - believe me, I've still been looking. TBH, it seems I recall some advent program for Windows 3.x that was similar to what you described, but I don't exactly remember. It was a while back, and my family and I have since lost the floppies and hard disks that such software would have been on.It's the first christmas where my wife 'n me got our own f*cking christmas tree so I'm pretty fine this year, at least in real life.
Thanks though. I'm sure, I'll find it one day. And if I do, I'll fire up DosBox with Win 3.11 and enjoy the sh*t out of it! =)
Unfortunately not. This is just a small bundle of minigames, wallpapers, icons and so on that I stumbled upon multiple times while looking for my advent calendar.I know you already checked WinWorldPC, but is it https://winworldpc.com/product/xmas-for-windows/80?
Yeah, I remember all kinds of software we got on floppy disks (wow, floppies! Do people even use them, anymore?) and CD-ROMs, some of it was software for Windows. Photo organizers, music players, art editing tools... some of it was pretty cool, but most of it was crap and already had better alternatives.they used to give games like this away free like this at computer shows years ago, 20-30 years ago I used to go to them for the stacks of freeware and shareware games.
Some were tech demos for programmers looking for work, others were come-ons for larger games for sale, etc...
Good point, thanks.have you thought to reaching out to Pixelmusement? or even LGR? given they have covered so much Shareware content esp durring the christmas time, (esp pixel and his ongoing Shovelware diggers series)
Hi guys,
I hope you can help me out.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1(1) we used to have a cool advent calendar program on our family PC and I can't figure out what it was called.
Unfortunately I don't know much about it.
There was a spaceman flying around and in one of the doors there was a b/w image for the user to apply colors to it.
The calendar itself was a snowy house with the numbers being on the doors and windows iirc.
Also it could be the case that it was a promotional game of intel or a specific printer brand. Not sure about that one as well (I mean that was like more than 20 years ago).
Would be awesome if you can help me find that one!
Edit: I think it was this spaceman image:
but without the background and it was not animated or something ... just that sprite moving across the screen