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 #42 Friday, November 11, 2005 7:35 AM
Overall fun to watch. My co-workers comment on it when they come over to my cube.
Reply #43 Friday, November 11, 2005 7:51 AM
1. Its not saving my setup, when it restarts its got a few objects and loads of fish that i didnt choose.
2. Welcome screen coming up all the time on Auto-Load
3. When i try to remove items (by either using aquarium splash dialog or right clicking system tray) its not letting me. When i use the built in dialog nothing happens, when i use system tray i get a small menu with hide, close, about and something else in it?
4. Cant close it using unload from system tray menu
Im gonna try downloading it again to see what happens, this is all very strange...
Ronan
Reply #44 Friday, November 11, 2005 8:04 AM
Thanks
Reply #45 Friday, November 11, 2005 8:11 AM
| 1. Its not saving my setup, when it restarts its got a few objects and loads of fish that i didnt choose. 2. Welcome screen coming up all the time on Auto-Load 3. When i try to remove items (by either using aquarium splash dialog or right clicking system tray) its not letting me. When i use the built in dialog nothing happens, when i use system tray i get a small menu with hide, close, about and something else in it? 4. Cant close it using unload from system tray menu |
Ditto everything you just said.
Reply #46 Friday, November 11, 2005 8:12 AM
| Question: Are any of the backgrounds for multiple monitor setups? Or is it the same on both monitors (tiled)? |
They are only single monitor backgrounds.
Reply #47 Friday, November 11, 2005 9:40 AM
Fish Ro
Reply #48 Friday, November 11, 2005 9:49 AM
Reply #49 Friday, November 11, 2005 3:00 PM
| 1. Its not saving my setup, when it restarts its got a few objects and loads of fish that i didnt choose. 2. Welcome screen coming up all the time on Auto-Load 3. When i try to remove items (by either using aquarium splash dialog or right clicking system tray) its not letting me. When i use the built in dialog nothing happens, when i use system tray i get a small menu with hide, close, about and something else in it? 4. Cant close it using unload from system tray menu Ditto everything you just said. |
The desktop is not saving itself when the program is shut down when Windows restarts. The Welcome dialog will also show up upon restart. If you unload Aquarium manually, the desktop is saved and the dialog does not show up with auto-start. Apparently, the program is not shutting down properly when it is closed by Windows. I am also having the multitude of anchors problem. The version of the program in Stardock Central seems to be buggier than the one from the purchase email link. Are they the same version?
Reply #50 Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:49 AM
Ro
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Reply #41 Friday, November 11, 2005 6:24 AM
#34 That did the trick! Thanks!