I'm guessing the Aquarium would have to be registered with Microsoft or something?

The installer is here I think:
https://prolific.s3.amazonaws.com/Ma...eAquarium3.exe

I will update the notes.

There will be 1 installer version approximately every month.

However there will be incremental upgrades every few days. Beta 9 for example.

As a long time user of the Aquarium, you already know that the presence or absence of the Installer doesn't affect your use of the Aquarium at all. So I would not really worry about the Installer and just run the latest version.

Thanks... I just wanted to test the "install" and "un-install" feature on a system that does not yet have SS3 on it. When I tried this with the first installer I was disappointed that the "un-install" part did not remove "all" the folders and registry entries. To me this was a bug and I wanted to see if this had been fixed.

We had discussed this in another thread, and there was some disagreement about how much should be uninstalled, with different possible users on the machine, etc. I don't really remember the outcome of the discussion, but it's still around somewhere.

I have a hard time staying interested in uninstallers - Uninstall MY program? Why would anyone ever want to do THAT? :)

The user folders will not be cleaned up at this time and possibly for a long time.

For the registry entries, I just need to tell Mark to set default values for possible registry entries so he can clean them up.

The current Installer version (of course with probably-older simulator Beta) should be the same as the "free trial" link on the SereneScreen website.

But you should probably wait for confirmation of that, from somebody who actually knows.

Or something. It's a certificate. Prolific knows how to do it.

Yes, carry over of settings from Beta9 to installed version and vice versa on WXP sp3 too.

Early on, different parts of the registry were used for MA3 Betas, but that location has been stable since mid-Beta 7. So unless something drastic changes, settings you put in for fish in Beta 8 and 9 will apply going forward.

There are no clock or logo settings right now as those features are not fully implemented.

The intention is to add a full logo picker that will officially support PNG files, rather than the unofficial support we had in MA2.6.

Beta 8 and Beta 9 use the same part of the registry for settings.

Again, we will see roughly monthly updates of the "Installer" version and incremental updates of just the "download and unzip" version more frequently.

I understand that, I was just curious if multiple logos would be shown in the rotation as it was when you used multiple logos at the same time in the MA2 series.

Thanks!!!

Outstanding

I hope so. Otherwise that would make me a sad panda.

Yes, the interface will allow you to choose which logos you want to display, in what order, and for how long.

Cool, sounds awesome!!! :TU:

Cheer up Feldon. :D

No registry entries remain. The user folder does stay in tact.
All that is left behind is the play list. Even with many songs, it is 1-3kb. Pointers and nothing more. NOT in anyway a duplicate of the song or file size of the given music.

The benefit is that if a user reloads MA3, the music list stays in tact

I agree with both of you. The link has been updated by MS since I began work on the installer. My bad, I have not gone back to this in awhile.
In doing so now, I land on the MS Authentic Verification link when using a brand new system.
You people are our eyes and ears in many circumstances. Lets hold a vote
Leave it as is or go direct to the DL?
Direct could result in a user being turned off by MS, an issue they may try to blame on us in a distorted belief we created the issue

I will address the certification issue.
MS changed their policy on this right around the release of Vista. While their intentions were good, the outcome was not.

1) Certificates must now be issued by a trusted server owned by the company in question...(easy)
2) Certificates allowed to be trusted fall into a select group of authorities...(humm)
3) If either of the above does not conform, the error is seen
4) Because the installer is an EXE one would assume that is what needs to be trusted..not the case it is the SCR that is inside the EXE AND the EXE (OK)

Is Prolific willing to live with this issue? My recommendation was YES.
We do not send this to you, you come find us.
We do not post on fly-by-night software DL sites...period
Could this result in a loss of sales?
Sure. To certify this straight across the board could cost 20G or better a year.

Please understand folks, this is NOT just a Prolific issue.
Put Norton, Adobe Reader, Quickbooks (pretty big list) on a system that did not come with it originally and watch the warnings fly!
Even if it did, the warnings in Vista and XP SP3 warn you for bigger fish than us on certain upgrades.
You never saw the warning because of the OEM install.
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So you all know...
Installers, I am still learning but have been doing the custom builds for coming up on 3 years.
Certs:
A+
MCP
MCSE
MCSA
CCNA
MCDBA

Win7 is far kinder

It's clearly for Prolific to decide. I just pointed out the issue.

When Prolific decides (and somebody tells us), it's no longer an issue.