Aquarium Desktop 2006: Fish Pack #1
Add even more fish to your desktop!
Thursday, December 8, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Fish Pack #1 is now available for Stardock's Aquarium Desktop! Aquarium Desktop is a program that enables very realistic looking fish to live on your Windows desktop. It is NOT a screen saver and is the only program of its kind available.
With Aquarium Desktop, you can add multiple fish to swim around as well as plants and other background items. It even has optional sound. The fish and all the other elements can be easily minimized with a single click if the user wants to turn them off and the entire thing has been designed to be very intelligent in CPU usage so that it doesn't interfere with doing "real work".
We're pretty biased obviously but this is one of the coolest programs we've ever worked with. Fish Pack #1 adds 8 new fish to the mix. Check out the screenshots below for more information.
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Reply #9 Thursday, December 8, 2005 5:36 PM
Maybe they could eat the goldfish if they get in their way???
Oops... sorry I'll take my medication now nurse.
Reply #10 Thursday, December 8, 2005 5:40 PM
Don't get me wrong, the fishes are really outstanding I just prefer something on paws. hehe
Reply #11 Thursday, December 8, 2005 8:44 PM
| What about mice, chinchillas, ferrets or cats? |
They don't usually make out very well in an aquarium. I know this for a fact. When my son was 5 or 6 he decided to find out if one of the cats could swim in my 55 gallon tank. He couldn't.
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| the entire appeal was ruined by the grainy (by the time it got stretched to fit my monitor) and unrealistic fish tank background; it looks like it can't decide between being semi-vector art and semi-photo. |
The fish tank background with the original AD is a photo of a real fish tank that was filtered to curb the realism of it compared to the fish and elements. It's oddly difficult to find wallpaper that we could get permission (or even buy) to distribute with AD and still be able to keep the price of the product so low. We do hope to add more wallpapers in the future if we are able to get them.
Reply #16 Friday, December 9, 2005 1:49 PM
| The fish tank background with the original AD is a photo of a real fish tank that was filtered to curb the realism of it compared to the fish and elements. It's oddly difficult to find wallpaper that we could get permission (or even buy) to distribute with AD and still be able to keep the price of the product so low. We do hope to add more wallpapers in the future if we are able to get them. |
That's too bad and I did get the impression it was hard to find wallpapers that you could distribute from that thread over the summer asking for submissions. You say that the background is actually a photo of a real fish tank that's been filtered... Can't you just distribute a copy of the original unfiltered photograph?
Reply #17 Friday, December 9, 2005 2:09 PM
I realize that might sound snooty, and if so I'm sorry. I have a 115 gal salt tank and a 55 gal freshwater tank with angels and gourami in it and I have had other tanks set up in the past with other fresh, brackish and salt fish in them. My wife has 4 betas in various decorative bowls. Gold fish just weren't ever anything I went out and bought. 
Reply #18 Friday, December 9, 2005 4:05 PM
| You say that the background is actually a photo of a real fish tank that's been filtered... Can't you just distribute a copy of the original unfiltered photograph? |
That's too logical.....
If I can locate it, I will see if we can get it in there.
| where are the original fish listed for Aquarium Desktop 2006? |
This is a fish pack, which adds to the fish in the AD 2006. It doesn't replace them, they just add to them.
Reply #19 Friday, December 9, 2005 8:33 PM
I've never used AD so forgive me if it already does something like this.
But If inside the AD gadget, you split the background image into effective layers... and cut one layer from the other, creating two images (ie. Foreground elements and background elements), You could actually make the fish swim inbetween the background and foreground (i.e. Around the weeds) as well as just infront of everything...
Also with this idea, if you included the ability to change the background image to something quite plain but allowed the user to customize the foreground layer with some animated objects designed specifically for AD.. that would be quite classy and catchy.
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Reply #1 Thursday, December 8, 2005 1:46 PM