Revived

Archive online · 2012—2018

A signal is glowing in the snow

Christmas XP Revived

The original Christmas Experiments sites are live again on the computer. Choose an edition in the URL and cross back into the early creative web.

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Reconnecting the Christmas signal

About the revival

Made to be explored again.

The browser changed. The experiments did not. This revival repairs obsolete APIs, reconnects missing local assets, and documents the few works that could not be fully recovered.

Commodore 64 model under CC BY 4.0: Commodore 64 pack by dark_igorek.

Winter village art is reused from the local McRunner project. Snow surfaces and GPU snowfall use the bundled Makio3D/Mini3 material and particle systems.

Music by Rush Coil, preserved with VVVVV! (2012). The original annual sites stay interactive in a live iframe positioned over the 3D screen, and the monitor casts that edition’s colour onto the computer. Chrome’s experimental HTML-in-Canvas API can paint a site straight onto the screen texture instead; ?screen=native opts into that path.