CEC Christmas '90 / Wave Bday

CEC Christmas '90 is a Christmas/Holiday themed showtape that played throughout all of December 1990.

Show List

 * 1) Intermission 1
 * 2) 8 Minute Countdown
 * 3) My Favorite Things
 * 4) Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (From Lee Greenwood's "Christmas to Christmas")
 * 5) Silver Bells
 * 6) Cyberstar Intro
 * 7) Segment 1
 * 8) Jingle Bells
 * 9) Sleigh Ride
 * 10) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
 * 11) Intermission 2
 * 12) 8 Minute Countdown
 * 13) Winter Wonderland
 * 14) Toyland
 * 15) Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
 * 16) Cyberstar Intro
 * 17) Segment 2
 * 18) Santa Claus is Coming to Town
 * 19) Twas The Night Before Christmas
 * 20) Intermission 3
 * 21) 8 Minute Countdown
 * 22) Christmas In the Caribbean
 * 23) White Christmas Makes Me Blue
 * 24) All I Want For Christmas (From Ray Charles "The Spirit of Christmas")
 * 25) It's Showtime!
 * 26) Video Break 1
 * 27) Manheim Steamroller - The Little Drummer Boy
 * 28) Intermission 4
 * 29) 8 Minute Countdown
 * 30) Run Rudolph Run
 * 31) Frosty the Snowman
 * 32) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
 * 33) Cyberstar Intro
 * 34) Segment 3
 * 35) Twelve Days of Christmas
 * 36) Intermission 5
 * 37) 8 Minute Countdown
 * 38) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
 * 39) White Christmas
 * 40) What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
 * 41) Cyberstar Intro
 * 42) Segment 4
 * 43) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
 * 44) We Wish You a Merry Christmas
 * 45) Winter Wonderland
 * 46) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
 * 47) We Need a Little Christmas
 * 48) Intermission 6
 * 49) 8 Minute Countdown
 * 50) Jingle Bells (From Smokey Robinson & the Miracles's "The Season for Miracles")
 * 51) Christmas Without You
 * 52) You Make It Christmas
 * 53) It's Showtime!
 * 54) Video Break 2
 * 55) California Raisins - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Production
This show started out as a Christmas showtape called Home for the Holidays in late 1987, originally on reel it later got a Cyberstar version two years later as Christmas '89. The major difference between the 1989 and 1990 versions are the copyrighted music for the intermissions countdowns, other than that the shows are remotely the same.

Road Stage Version
The 1990 release would be the first ever showtape released for the Road Stage, having new programming made in the Animation Programming System. This would be the only full showtape to have been programmed in SongCode and APS.

APS Files
The show was a part of the 1990-1992 APS Floppy Cases, being the second tape known to be made using APS. It would be split across three disks, overlapping with the CEC Jan '91 disk.

Floppy Disk Labels
XMAS 1 .ATL .ROA APS files XMAS 2 .ATL .ROA XMAS 3 .ATL .ROA 10-90 #90_8 A Road Show lighting

XMAS 4 .ATL .ROA APS files LIVE90#1.ROA ("BDAY WAVE.ATL" is visible on the third line, but whited out) 10-90 #90-8 B Road Show lighting

Floppy Alteration
Noticeably all three floppies were changed after their initial archival, as evidenced by their labels and file dates. Originally, the Christmas '90 tape was stored on the first two floppies, with segments 1-3 on the first, and 4 + Birthday Wave on the second. The January '91 tape also only included the original first 3 segments. This is all marked on the floppies in red pen during their creation in October of 1990. On December 6th, this would be changed to have the Birthday Wave segment moved to the Jan '91 disk, replacing it with the 1990 Live Show for Road Stage. All file extensions would also change to '.ROA', being originally an unknown acronym '.ATL'. All these changes would be written in blue marker on the labels, alongside new text across all three floppies noting them being APS files. This moving around was likely done just to save space on the disks.

Files
(All files were originally given the extention '.ATL' before being changed to '.ROA' on December 6, 1990.) The entry "#daywave.atl" was recovered from a deleted section of the disk, with the pound sign in its name denoting deletion. The floppy label sources the full name, being "bdaywave.atl". This version is identical to the version found on the Jan '91 disk. This table excludes entries for the CEC Jan '91 show.