Aquarium Desktop 2006 released!
Put virtual fish onto your Windows desktop!
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released Aquarium Desktop 2006.
Aquarium Desktop isn't a screensaver. The fish actually "live" on your Windows
desktop happily swimming within the borders of your screen. The fish, rendered
with exquisite detail in 3D, swim, turn, and simply look amazing.
Aquarium Desktop 2006 comes with several fish to start with. User can choose which fish to display on their desktop and even have multiple fish of the same underlying model. As a result, user can have as many or few fish as they want swimming. It also comes with a host of different plants that, like the fish, have been rendered from 3D models for very lifelike animation and detail. It also comes with multiple wallpapers, aquatic sound effects, and more.
The program is highly configurable. Plants can be sized. Sound effects added or disabled. And it is designed to be intelligent in its CPU usage. If the fish are covered (and when people are working, they tend to have windows on their desktops) the rendering goes into idle mode so that the fish don't slow down your computer. The graphics are also compressed in memory to minimize how much memory it's using.
Aquarium Desktop 2006 is a great fun way to liven up your desktop. For user who had the original Aquarium Desktop, they can upgrade to Aquarium Desktop 2006 at a reduced price and get access to additional fish. Additional "fish packs" will be made available as Christmas nears.
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Reply #2 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 3:49 PM
Webster's: pl fish or fish-es
but I like ghoti.
Reply #4 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 5:33 PM
yeah, should be 'fishies' |
I beg to differ with you.. should be fish-EASE!!
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Reply #7 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:35 AM
fish (singular) = one fish
fish (plural) = more than one fish
fishes = more than one species of fish
so fishes was most likely correct (although I can't find it anywhere in the original post).
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Reply #16 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 10:46 AM
| Does it work with multi monitors? The old version didn't for me. |
Yup, this version works with multi monitor setups.
| Do the fish move differently from the ones in DesktopX? I find that the "from left to right, and turn, and back, and turn..." movement of the fish looks a bit artificial. |
Not sure which fish you're referring to. The ones in Aquarium Desktop 2006 will move from left to right, turn and go back, but will also change speed and height as well. They definitely move more realistically than the fish in the original Aquarium Desktop.
| Does the new version have everything the original has plus the new fish or is it brand new? |
This is pretty much a brand new version. Some of the elements (the anchor, chest and bolle) are from the original, but all the fish are brand new.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 3:41 PM