r/retrocomputing • u/50_and_stuck • 1d ago

DOS Christmas screensaver?

Back when I was in college my roommate gave me a floppy with a cool Christmas themed screensaver.

I had to manually launch it. All it did was show a dark screen with a bunch of colored lights roughly in the shape of a Christmas tree.

The cool thing about it is periodically the view of the tree shifted. The camera would fly through the tree to a new angle creating a 3D effect.

Anyone remember this program, what it was called, and where I might be able to find it?

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u/KNY2XB 1d ago

I'd search the Internet Archive at archive.org

People have uploaded old software there, you may luck out

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u/Count2Zero 1d ago

The most famous screensaver back in the day was "After Dark" with their flying toasters.

After Dark (software) - Wikipedia

I don't recall a Christmas-themed screensaver, but maybe this will help.

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u/50_and_stuck 22h ago

Yeah, I remember After Dark. That's not it. Thanks though. :)

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u/DNSGeek 20h ago

If you have a Mac, you can run all of the after dark screensavers using https://morphing.cloud/afterglow/

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u/drzeller 17h ago

I remember Twinkle Bulbs, which put tree lights all around the edge of your display. Anyone else?