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90s Nonsense: the WizardWorks Holiday Collection CD-ROM

90s Nonsense: the WizardWorks Holiday Collection CD-ROM

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Simply taking a look at one of the many Christmas-themed software packages from the mid-90s filled with random junk that the publisher had lying around. Holiday games, labels, clipart, fonts, screensavers, a MIDI jukebox, a t-shirt designer and more! Even a cassette tape, ooh
Date: 2022-04-14

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back in 1998 my Wife got me something like that for Christmas. We got our first computer on Black Friday 1997. She got me two other boxed PC games, each had like 3 to 5 games. one was called Freddie pharmacist or something like it lol But I had a blast with the Christmas one. It had a few Christmas games but it was the screen savers, icons, and clip art I liked the most. Good times having fun with paid Shareware lol
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Those MIDI files sound like they're playing the second melody line from a performance arrangement, which seems like an easy mistake except they've got the bass and percussion as well? How do you make that mistake? Like it's everything except the actual lead melody. Are they supposed to be backing tracks for singing along to in some sort of weird christmas karaoke session?
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I laughed SO hard when it printed out Sonntag instead of Sunday. It looks like the software has been developed in the US. And even if it was done in Germany, how did it pass any QA test for the translation process? In addition to that, the overall amount of laughter and oddness in general made it one of my most favourite episodes.
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14: 09 That MIDI. It's so weird and bad that. I want it.
15: 28 Oh no, it's one of those weird MIDIs, only with a piano now.
20: 52 What were the people that made this even thinking? Christmas. with hacks of Flying Windows, bad MIDIs, and random t-shirts about addiction to sports and people in jail!

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Here in Brazil we had a magazine called -Revista do CD-ROM-, where that's the samething applied here. A bunch of softwares, games, fonts, cliparts, musics, wallpapers. I have to say, at 90s internet was something still prety slow, so those magazines actually did a pretty good job.
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Dude, I have a -500 True-Type fonts for Windows- CD-ROM from like that time, and includes that exact Thumbs program, but it was made by -CrystalVision Software- (which had a very 90s website until 2016, and it's no longer active. The fonts are mostly great, tho.
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Hello from a year in the future where The Algorithm has blessed this video again for Christmas time.
If I had to guess, the MIDI note weirdness seems to be a lack of pitch bend support.
The weird notes tend to be where a composer might put a pitch bend.

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I found the full version of the t-shirt maker. It was sold as Hanes T-Shirt Maker. There are even more graphics and premade designs and they're just as corny and awful as the ones from the shareware version here.
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I did not see this video before visiting your Red Bubble store, so I was very confused about the Rib Bitt backwards shirt lmao. I came for the Cool Crab, but stayed for the potential word peace.
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The CD version of that Nutcracker Suite tape was one of the first I bought/was given. I believe it was $10 at the local Acme grocery store (would have been $8 on cassette. a bargain price for a CD in 1993.
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