My New Aquarium Screensaver - give it a try!

[feverfive]

for people who are experiencing this problem, rename the file "C:/WINDOWS/Dream Aquarium.scr" to "DreamAquarium.scr" (take out the space). I'm really not sure why the spaced version doesn't work on some machines. I suppose i will have to change this.

Thanks for the fix, it seems to have worked (& thanks for taking the time to PM me as well). I NEVER use a screensaver (well, I haven't for about 5 years), but this one is making me come around a bit. Assuming this is "stable", and reasonably priced, I would consider purchasing it once it goes gold......Hope you are getting good feedback from all testers, & I look forward to future revisions. Good luck w/ this endeavor..

[craybox]

any insider info when an OSX verison might be available ?

[Kerm]

If you took away that logo at the bottom it would be great.

[exotoxic]

wow it looks real nice great work :)

[spiralmonkey]

Thanks for the compliments and feedback. No word on the mac version yet, but it'll be at least a few months :( And if you like it, it's now for sale! The latest version has 2 new fish, a tiger barb and a zebra danio, with more to come!

If you already have it installed, try the auto-updater. If you installed it more than a month ago, you might want to uninstall first, because i've changed installers. If you'd like a fresh download, go to

dreamaquarium.com/download

cheers,

alan

i should add that not only is it for sale it's ON SALE, because it's still in beta we're offering it for $16.95 including free updates throughout the 1.x series.

Edited January 27, 2006 by spiralmonkey

[jimkraz]

Love the addition of the new fish, keep em coming, love this screensaver to bits. I used to have a six foot tank in my livingroom, heart problems forced me to give up tank, this one is easy to look after. Jim

[cyberfrem]

Just tried it but it ran extremely slowly unless I chose the plain blue background.

It has potential but at the moment I still prefer Marine Aquarium 2.

[Bizkit]

I am using it, and it looks beautiful. Very good work.

[AJerman]

Oooo, Zebra Danios, I love em. Now you have both of my favorite fish (on the small end at least), Neon Tetras and Zebra Danios :D

Edit: Argh, only one Zebra Danio for the trial version? That sucks becuase theres not a chance in hell that I'm going to pay for a screensaver.

[craybox]

any sign of the osx version coming out soon even if just to test ?

[illicit]

Very nice work. It looks great. :)

[spiralmonkey]

I haven't yet started on the OSX version, and it may be a while still. Sorry :( I want to come out with at least one new tank and a fiddler crab at the bottom that grabs at the fish! Then i will begin work on the OSX version, though it's being programmed so that it will be fairly portable.

-Alan

[Ecat]

Hey Betaz, those are cardinals, not neons. ( :

[Shuu]

cool cool. i like it. always thought aquariums made great screensavers.

[1Frothy]

Checked back on Dream Aquarium and WOW a new tank was added! :D

This has got to be the best screensaver ever.

[:: Lyon ::]

Hey this is good... i might give a trial

I used to see the Serene Screen marine screensaver.. but this is something better, i think!

[Afroman]

very nice, works 100% on vista rtm so far.. need to buy this so i can add more fish.

[leovanham]

Suggestion: maybe you can build-in a tracking camara feature so that you can zoom-in on a fish and let the camara follow it :)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

As much as i like this screensaver (it looks amazing IMO), look at the date of the thread, the creator hasn't even been to the site since June.

[jimkraz]

He now has, and has for some some time, his own forum on the Dreamaquarium site, www.dreamaquarium.com, there have been continual FREE updates to this screensaver, also continual comunication with the purchasers of this screensaver to improve and give his customers what they want, I have never seen another software producer do this in such a way. Go on over to the forum and have a read through it, you will see the continuing work done in the past year.

[huskerpat]

I love this screensaver. it keeps getting better and better. Alan has been great with updates and adding content.

[1Frothy]

I love this screensaver. it keeps getting better and better. Alan has been great with updates and adding content.

:yes: I don't know how the author behind the product does it, but it's true the screensaver just gets better and better! :)

[SMOKINDAVE]

NICE...I have been using serenescreen's marine aquarium 2.6 for a long time but will give this try for awhile. nice job !

[1Frothy]

NICE...I have been using serenescreen's marine aquarium 2.6 for a long time but will give this try for awhile. nice job !

This one is definitely more advanced and its worth getting as long as your computer is up to it.

[spiralmonkey]

As much as i like this screensaver (it looks amazing IMO), look at the date of the thread, the creator hasn't even been to the site since June.

Actually, i just noticed the spike of hits coming from neowin.net - i assumed this thread was dead. This thread is actually what kicked off Dream Aquarium and started the word spreading, and i'm thankful to everyone here for their support. It's doing fairly well considering it's only sold on-line and i'm planning to start work on the mac version in february, and after that i'll revisit/redevelop my fish behavior and kinematics code.

-Alan