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Aquarium programs
« on: May 17, 2006, 10:34:44 am »
Guys,

I'm looking for a good aquarium screensaver program for my brothers plasma screen. I saw one running a while back that was VERY realistic looking with large bubbles etc.

Can anyone name it or recommend a really good one?

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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2006, 10:51:44 am »
I'd be careful running semi-static images on flat panels, ESPECIALLY plasmas. The shop I worked in at my last base had 54" plasmas that displayed the entire base infrastructure via HP Openview. Even with wiper* running, the icons were burned into the screen for good a week later.



*A wipe is a wide vertical colorbar, usually white, that goes back and forth on a screen to prevent burn-in.
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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2006, 11:15:37 am »
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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2006, 02:44:23 pm »
I'm not really recommending it, because it's an oldie which can't barely run in any modern hardware... But I've always been a fan of El-Fish  8)
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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2006, 02:21:21 pm »
www.fish-byte.com is a good one, but an oldie, been around since atleast '00 with some enhancements over the years. (It was featured on ABC's 'Extreme Home Makeover'

also, I found a sweet shark screen saver called shark terror's of the deep

http://www.gold-software.com/SharksTerrorsoftheDeep-review16311.htm

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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2006, 09:35:23 pm »
I've got the one from SereneScreen.

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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2006, 04:40:32 pm »
I've got the one from SereneScreen.

Seems like half the people in my office have that one. It's pretty realistic looking, and I think it offers the option to turn off the bottom of the aquarium so all you see is the fish to minimize your chances of burn in.

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Re: Aquarium programs
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2006, 10:39:45 am »
Cheers guys, I'll check out your recommendations......