The 2000ad interactive advent calendar 2004 is now available to download.
Many thanks to Duncan Nimmo for supplying the astonishing artwork this year.
You can download it here:
mac users (http://www.2000adonline.com/download/2000AD%20Advent2004.hqx)
Whilst you can open a new door everyday in December (and previous day's stay open), I've decided this year to password protect the "sneak preview image" supplied by Tharg. The reason for this is to stop cheats from grabbing a sneak preview.
If you want the password, you can send me a cheque for ?5 :-) or wait until December 23rd, when I'll post the password on this message.
Happy Christmas.
UKDane
YAY! I'm off to download!
Bolt-01
Very nice work there Tulkas.
Verry nice.
Bolt-01
VERY nice indeed!
Cheers for that. I cannae wait!
'tis on the homepage!
Huzzah! A lovely dinky Sam Slade to kick off this Yuletide season!
Nice work there, you two!
So who do i make the cheque ou to? Nah just kidding, I need my money.
Very nice indeed :) Thanks
I'm guessing I need to shrink my desktop resolution to get the best from it though.
If you press escape, it should resize to a window.
Wake
Oooh, thats lovely that is...
Might even pop it on my startup for the month...
Dan
....not bad.....
;P
Last year's advent calendar will work this year too.
Wake
Link: Advent Calendar 2003 (PC)
As will the one previous to that.
Wake
Link: Advent Calendar 2002 (PC)
Well, I don't care what Logan's about to say about fan art, I love it!!
(joking, Logan!)
Love the advent calendar, done by fans who chat on the board for other fans.
Not done by 'fans' who just show up to show us their wonderfull pics on their long winding path to artistic obscurity.
There should be a mac version of the and 2002 2003 ones too.
mac 2002 (http://www.2000adonline.com/download/advent2002.hqx)
It looks like tharg is smoking
Top Kano action there.
Hmmm, looking at the past 3 calendars, I spot a bit of a pattern for the 2nd...
Dan
pattern? don't tell me all the characters behind the doors are the same... are they? surely that's just coincidence.
nah, only for the second at least - Kano on all three. Different for the 1st. Dunno for the others of course...
Dan
I calculate the probability of at least one character appearing in the same position on all three calendars by chance as 4% (if all the calendars had the same set of characters).
Wake
Just downloaded this - very good work! :0)
kawaiiiiii!
"I calculate the probability of at least one character appearing in the same position on all three calendars by chance as 4% (if all the calendars had the same set of characters)."
This is possibly the funniest post I've seen in ages.
Imagine him saying it in the voice of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Mr Data, and you'll get why I'm sniggering.
:-p
- Trout
All 3 are hamerstein today.
Out of curiosity, is there a way of having this as a wallpaper?
Bolt-01
The entire calendar, or just the main image?
(either way the answer is yes, but the entire calendar would take about 10 mins extra programming.)
Let me know what version you want.
Ooh, the whole program, so that it is ready to be opened when I turn my PC on.
Lovely picture Of lobster Random Today Tulkas!
Bolt-01
"I calculate the probability of at least one character appearing in the same position on all three calendars by chance as 4% (if all the calendars had the same set of characters)"
You're such a droid;)
Today's is great!
These little guys are crying out to be bobbleheads!
Ah, now you see Bolt, I've told a little white lie- I can't (to the best of my knowledge) make the wallpaper work as an advent calendar. That has to be a static image.
I can however make the program into a screensaver.
Would that suit, sir?
it's great Dane, cheers.
My son has a friend at school called Dane.
He like Barbie, does Ballet, spends most of his time at home reading and seems happier with girls.
Call me old fashioned but i am finding it soo hard not to be an old troll and take the piss out of the lad.
Sorry to go on topic here, but by old fashioned do you mean homophobic and intolerant, Fish Face ?
sorry I though this was the off topic thread, so nnow it should sorry for going off topic
UKD: That would be ace, thanks.
Bolt-01
A pc screensaver version is available to download
HERENB. The exit button on the screensaver does
NOT work.
To EXIT the screensaver just press Esc on your keyboard.
Sorry, that should be
HERE
it's still not biting Dane :(
Last one works for me!
Cheers UKD.
All death today.
Bah, Humbug!
Next year they'll have all moved around, without doubt, yes siree!
intlorent, certainly not as i make no attempt to influence what he does or what my son thinks of it (though inwardly i laugh bit as i admit) and homophobic.. most certainly not, i have a very good gay friend (who happens to be very masculine).. i'd say just old fashioned and finding it hard to adjust to a world where the boy/girl split isn't as obvious.
i have been away
so late to post the note of thanks.
well done once again there sir.
makes it feel like christmas proper now.
bump. my son loves this, even though there is no chocolate involved
If only Dante would put some clothes on...;)
All are characters that were new that year.
All are slaine today. You really need to shuffle them about for next year
Just bumping this ready for the password!
Bolt-01
Well its the 24th in Australia... and a lovely picture of Demon Jenny it is, too.
Whats the password, mac?
Ok then (and an early present for all the cheats out there)
The password is...
totalwar
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the very talented Duncan Nimmo for all his artwork.
I'd also like to thank Tharg for supplying the "mystery" artwork- even if it has now seen print elsewhere.
Next year I'll definately move the characters around a bit. If anyone has some ideas for next years calendar, please let me know before November ;-)
Is there any chance of an on-line look at it, for those of us who are firewalled against .exe files?
- Trout
Trouty, here's a screen shot of it (as at 23rd December).
You'll have to down load the program to see tomorrow's window.
this calendar is kawaiiiii!
My son is loving it. Thanks very much.
Thanks Robin and Duncan, this humble droid has enjoyed your festive work hugely. Now about to type in the password. Ooh, the tension...:-)
Probably won't be back on here for a few days, so let me just wish all Squaxx reading this a fantastically Merry Christmas, and a thrill-powered New Year!
Simon, Titch and Henry :-)
thanks for that.
top piece of work that as well.
Yay!
Thanks again for all the effort Robin and Duncan!
Bolt-01
Is there any chance of an on-line look at it, for those of us who are firewalled against .exe files?
- Trout
OHHHH DEAR
board i see an oppurtunity here to show our trout how muh he has taught us about being EVIL.
sire. its wonderful, outstanding, you should take a look. ohh sorry you cant can you.
your right, its fun to be EVIL.
Just had a look at the secrect image.
Ohhh...
Seriously guys, great bloody work here, well done!
Very nice indeed! Thanks for your help, Oddboy!
Devon's Daddy: I hereby remove all rights and titles previously accorded to you by the King and the board.
Merry fucking Christmas, shithead.
- Now, that's evil...
I did what any loyal minion would do.
Although I notice no one else did.
Maybe you should kill them all, KT?
Hmm.
Maybe. I'll see.
You could have it as a new years' resolution: "Kill everyone who isn't a loyal minion."
I would have if: i had a programe that took screen shots, and oddboy hadn't got there first.
Cyber: It's called "Prt Scr" on my keyboard ;-)
Does nothing on mine
In windows highlight the Window. Press ctl and PrtSc. Then open word or similair. Ctl and v. Job done.
Slips
Well I never.
We know that - you said so on the New New Year Resolution thread :~
ay, it's not my fault I went to a single sex secondary school.
Don't worry yourself Max - It's not a race (despite what some of your friends might claim).
Just a bit of festive fun. Hope you have a good one.
Andy
I know it's not a race. I'm just lonely.
How can you be lonely on a Board so full of people?
Okay so maybe it's just me and you at the moment, but you've loads of mates here. and just think of all the stuff you'll get tomorrow.
I've got to cook a bloody 8kg turkey for seven people. I CAN'T COOK.
The bastard needed defrosting for 48 hours before sitting in the oven for 6 hours.
I never want to take the giblets out of anything again!
...the joys of christmas
I hat Christmas. Bah Humbug.
And I'm lonely for people in the real world, who I meet every few days.