Another christmas has passed by and I still haven't found it. I even checked my backup archive that I burnt to DVDs from 2005 (probably 10 years after the advent calendar release date) but once again my hopes have been shattered.
I can't believe that a game, that was better than the commonly known "Advent.exe" game for which countless YouTube videos exist, just disappeared from earth and didn't make it "into the internet".
There had to have been copies; it was very unlikely that it was just for you. Maybe they were only sold/given out where you lived? Some things are region-specific, and I don't mean by country or continent. I mean counties, boroughs, cities, etc. - unless you remember otherwise?
There had to have been copies; it was very unlikely that it was just for you. Maybe they were only sold/given out where you lived? Some things are region-specific, and I don't mean by country or continent. I mean counties, boroughs, cities, etc. - unless you remember otherwise?
It was definitely not only for me/us. It was (for the time) very well produced and much more of a high quality product than the commonly "ADVENT.EXE" that everyone knows.
But that doesn't help me much as I can't remember more details of any dev or brand.
This is a great list of old games; I see some of my faves like Jazz Jackrabbit and Chex Quest. Definitely worth bookmarking, but a search for "advent" and "christmas" pulls up nothing. Good try, though.
Hi, I just read the entire thread, and I think I'll also search by myself for this game, although we're almost 2 years after the starting of this thread. It's very sad to see how hard it is to find old games or software that you had child. I personnally played a lot to a Windows 7 game, Chess Titans, 9 years ago, and it took me a lot of time to find an old copy of this game (and sadly, not the French version, but if I remember well I've it on an old hard drive). But I'll inform you of I find something just like a screenshot or even the name of this game.
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Exo, the creator of eXoDOS has released a Win 3.1 pack too. It's called Win3xO and has pretty much everything. Weights over 300GB but you can download individual files at some sources.
I found that on a forum about Win 3.11, did you take a look? Here is the original thread...
Btw I found many thread that you posted attempting to find this game.
Edit: Just saw that someone already talked about eXoDOS
Hi, I just read the entire thread, and I think I'll also search by myself for this game, although we're almost 2 years after the starting of this thread. It's very sad to see how hard it is to find old games or software that you had child. I personnally played a lot to a Windows 7 game, Chess Titans, 9 years ago, and it took me a lot of time to find an old copy of this game (and sadly, not the French version, but if I remember well I've it on an old hard drive). But I'll inform you of I find something just like a screenshot or even the name of this game.
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I found that on a forum about Win 3.11, did you take a look? Here is the original thread...
Btw I found many thread that you posted attempting to find this game.
Edit: Just saw that someone already talked about eXoDOS
Try "Ultimate Christmas Calendar" by the company "Brightworks"
It was released in 1994 which is shortly after 3.11 was released. Additionally, "the game includes a variety of holiday-themed mini-games and activities, including an advent calendar with doors that reveal hidden surprises, as well as a "Santa's Sleigh" game, where you can fly through space delivering presents to the planets"
However, I was unable to find any download links, screenshots, videos, or additional information.
I know it's a longshot but hopefully, some of this information helped. Or better yet, here is hoping you already found the name of the program.
Try "Ultimate Christmas Calendar" by the company "Brightworks"
It was released in 1994 which is shortly after 3.11 was released. Additionally, "the game includes a variety of holiday-themed mini-games and activities, including an advent calendar with doors that reveal hidden surprises, as well as a "Santa's Sleigh" game, where you can fly through space delivering presents to the planets"
However, I was unable to find any download links, screenshots, videos, or additional information.
I know it's a longshot but hopefully, some of this information helped. Or better yet, here is hoping you already found the name of the program.
Try "Ultimate Christmas Calendar" by the company "Brightworks"
It was released in 1994 which is shortly after 3.11 was released. Additionally, "the game includes a variety of holiday-themed mini-games and activities, including an advent calendar with doors that reveal hidden surprises, as well as a "Santa's Sleigh" game, where you can fly through space delivering presents to the planets"
However, I was unable to find any download links, screenshots, videos, or additional information.
I know it's a longshot but hopefully, some of this information helped. Or better yet, here is hoping you already found the name of the program.
Unfortunately it's none of those. I'm glad though that people keep reviving this thread every now and then, trying to help me.
The first one comes close in terms of look and feel, but it was a snowy house outdoors instead. The latter is way too big (and too late released) to be it. No way the one I'm looking for was bigger than 200 MB. Pretty sure it was fitting on one or two floppy disks.
I'm afraid, it's just simply not on the internet at all and thus making it impossible for me to find.
Unfortunately it's none of those. I'm glad though that people keep reviving this thread every now and then, trying to help me.
The first one comes close in terms of look and feel, but it was a snowy house outdoors instead. The latter is way too big (and too late released) to be it. No way the one I'm looking for was bigger than 200 MB. Pretty sure it was fitting on one or two floppy disks.
I'm afraid, it's just simply not on the internet at all and thus making it impossible for me to find.
I would assume HarveyHouston above is correct with his reply, seeing the name is very close to the halloween one I linked. Most likely there were both made by the same people maybe just different companies or something.
I remember that advent calendar program! It was called Winter Wonderland and it was made by Intel in 1993. It was a promotional game that came with some of their processors. I used to play it every December on my old 486 PC. It had a lot of fun activities and surprises behind each door. The spaceman was one of them, and he would fly across the screen and say "Happy Holidays from Intel". I still have the floppy disk somewhere, but I don't know if it works on modern computers. It was a great piece of nostalgia and I wish I could find a way to run it again.
Maybe you can run it on DosBox? The eXoDOS community might be able to help in getting it running too. If you have the ability to do so, copy it off your disk and upload it somewhere so we can download.
I remember that advent calendar program! It was called Winter Wonderland and it was made by Intel in 1993. It was a promotional game that came with some of their processors. I used to play it every December on my old 486 PC. It had a lot of fun activities and surprises behind each door. The spaceman was one of them, and he would fly across the screen and say "Happy Holidays from Intel". I still have the floppy disk somewhere, but I don't know if it works on modern computers. It was a great piece of nostalgia and I wish I could find a way to run it again.
I remember that advent calendar program! It was called Winter Wonderland and it was made by Intel in 1993. It was a promotional game that came with some of their processors. I used to play it every December on my old 486 PC. It had a lot of fun activities and surprises behind each door. The spaceman was one of them, and he would fly across the screen and say "Happy Holidays from Intel". I still have the floppy disk somewhere, but I don't know if it works on modern computers. It was a great piece of nostalgia and I wish I could find a way to run it again.
Holy sh*t! That COULD be it! I'm pretty sure it was a localised german version but still, it could be it. The "Happy Holidays from Intel" also tends to be somewhere in my memory. And I was thinking about Intel as well.
Damn, you are my only hope. Please find that disc and dump the content. A zip with all the files is fine. If you do, I'd even return you the money you may had to spend for an external floppy drive!
Still really can't find anything about it online. :/
I remember that advent calendar program! It was called Winter Wonderland and it was made by Intel in 1993. It was a promotional game that came with some of their processors. I used to play it every December on my old 486 PC. It had a lot of fun activities and surprises behind each door. The spaceman was one of them, and he would fly across the screen and say "Happy Holidays from Intel". I still have the floppy disk somewhere, but I don't know if it works on modern computers. It was a great piece of nostalgia and I wish I could find a way to run it again.
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