New to Forum; Wishlist
 

I have been using your screensaver for years now, and just upgraded to 3.0; excellent job!

Until now, I have taken a backseat, but i have a few wishes for a next upgrade.

First, there are some neat bottom dwelling fish such as the beautiful Mandarin Goby, that wold love to crawl along the bottom.

Second, there is nothing more fun on the reef than watching the clownfish interact with their host anenome. Can we get that interaction?

Last would be to ad some cool inverts such as the CandyCane Shrimp or even a colorful sea slug

I, of course, have no idea how difficult it would be to create this creatures and to create a sub-echo system like clownfish and anemone etc.

Thank you :TU:

stay tuned, all planned

You can check out our wishlist fro fish and creatures here.

Wishlist
 

Jav,

I hadn't looked at the wishlist for quite a while. The thumbs-up, thumbs-down, and question marks are a nice addition.

Looking over the wishlist items it's easy to tell that Jim has knocked off quite a few of these. Would it be possible to add a "completed" column with check boxes for the ones that are done? I think it would be a great visual which would demonstrate all of Jim's hard work to date.

The ones that are done are on the fish guide page located here.

Since the release of MA3 Morgan and I need to go over all our pages and redo and update. But so far there haven't been enough hours in a day. We'll get there though..........

Heh - you'll also need to add the clams to that guide page soon. Or are you going to do a separate Fish Guide and Creature Guide as with the Wishlist?

Truly Amazing.
 

I would just like to express my appreciation to Jim (& Co) for this wonderful enhancement to what was already a stunning product.

I purchased SereneScreen way back at V1.1 & having been a keeper of marine fish & inverts for more than 20 years I really can see the realism, but V3 (even in Beta) just goes to a whole new level.

I had to give up keeping marines when I moved to Cyprus (too darn hot & chillers cost too much) and SereneScreen has always filled the massive whole left by my missing tanks.

OK so it's not an 8 footer, but V3 spreads beautifully across my 3x 24" w/s monitors to the point where I worry about falling in.

Jim you truly are a genius, please keep up the hard work. It's really appreciated.:TU:

CYNigel

P.S. I have seen you mention "the competition" in your posts, you really should stop this, THERE IS NO COMPETITION!! SereneScreen is and will remain No. 1

Glad you are enjoying it so much;

Welcome to the forums. :TU: :)

Welcome to the forum. Maybe a pic of yer monitors in action??

Wooo! I'd love to see 3 x 24" w/s monitors in action running MA3!

Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?

I'd been a beta guy and forum member from the original version oh so long ago, but had lost track of development. I remembered it yesterday and was excited to see a new version, so I grabbed the demo. Of course, after having my breath taken away I purchased it immediately. :) Absolutely stunning, Jim.

I'm running a Core i7 cpu w/ a Radeon 4850 for video and at 1600x900/8x AA with 28 fish it's simply breathtaking. I can get it over 400fps with low sleep settings, but I have no idea what that does. ;)

I'll be actively following your progress, for sure, and grabbing updates while they're hot!

The vast majority of LCD monitors are capped at 60 or 70 Hz, so more than 400fps doesn't help, it just runs your graphics card hot.

Of course, just playing with the setting to see its effect.

Welcome back, Jack.

Jim, am sure you have heard this many times over, but wanna add mine to say - You do GREAT work!!! Really enjoy it!

Thanks, Gus.

Love the Clams!
 

Once again... great work Mr. Sachs. I know its still in dev., but you've done a beautiful job good sir!

Thanks for the early 33rd Birthday present!

Hmmm, you look a lot older.

Must be the Esplendidos ;)

heh... it comes with the 2 kids and running a call center for the last few years... :-D Nothing compared to the frustration/stress you must deal with trying to get this beautiful string of code to function as fully imagined. :-D

The clams really have been worth the wait, even with the few oddities left to polish out... :)
Great Work, and thanks for sharing it step by step.

I see 10a is up now. What do we who purchased the beta do? Uninstall the old one and install the newer one using their license number?

If you have the purchased installer version installed already and want to make that the latest beta version too then you can follow the following steps:

Find the shortcut that was made for MA3 on your desktop
Right click it and choose "Open File Location"
Copy into this folder MA3Beta.scr
Delete MarineAquarium3.scr
Rename MA3Beta.scr to MarineAquarium3.scr
The beta version with the clams is now the installed version

All beta options like stats showing by default will still be set.

Thanks

Regards,
Neil

You mean install the newer beta as well? Then copy/rename those files over to the original installation. Then I guess uninstall the newer one....???

Wouldn't it be easier to uninstall and start over with the license number they gave me?

I would recommend leaving the purchased installer version as it is. - The recent changes to Jim's betas from fish-byte.com will be included in the official version (ie. the one from SereneScreen), in due course, ie. when the bugs are sorted out. ;)

The easiest way to "Install" one of Jim's betas (if you must! ;)), is to simply right-click on MA3Beta.scr you just downloaded and click on 'Install'.

Aha - thanks. I was getting a bit confused. I think I'll wait until an official update to the purchased one is announced.

Thanks guys.

I have the official version installed, then with the updated beta-betas (the ones Jim posts here), I download the file and then double click on it to run it, or I move the official beta .scr to a backup folder and drop in the beta-beta, suitably renamed. That way I can run it as a normal screensaver without confusing things too much.

Actually I just clicked Install intead of Run and it appears to have updated the paid-for MA3 anyway. I could be wrong but it certainly appears that way.

Brit,

Remember that Jim's Beta-Beta's posted here for testing will have an expiration date and will not run forever like the bought and paid for version from Serenescreen. They are only intended as testing versions for new features that Jim creates as we go along to make sure things are working properly before that file gets sent to Serenescreen.

If it gets confusing for you, then do like Wiz does and only install the version from Serenescreen that you bought, just run Jim's beta's by clicking on the file for testing purposes if you want. As an updated version gets sent to Serenescreen with some updated features then we will let you know by announcing a newer version at Serenescreen, and you can go back and get it and then install that one. It will over write the installed version you already have and run forever with newer features.

Thanks for the tips guys.

You're overthinking it.

Just download beta 10a and drop the file wherever you want.

No need for an installer, uninstaller, or any other gymnastics. Just download it and use it.

The Aquarium didn't even have an installer for its first 2 years on the market. It was only after constant requests for an installer that one was added. And all it does is create a couple of folders and move the Aquarium to the right place. Something you can do yourself in about 3.5 seconds.

Trust me to over-complicate things....LOL Thanks.

You guys sure do overcomplicate things I just drag the file to system32 it says there is one there do I want to override I click and it is done.

For people who don't know where their System32 folder is, it's even easier to right-click on the file and then click on 'Install'.

Yeah, but then you get some people wondering why their paid-for version keeps popping up with statistics in the corner and - oh! - has just expired. :p

Just sayin'! :)

Exactly right Wiz........:TU:

And that from someone who has just said...
:rolleyes: Did either of you two read post #586 ? ... in particular, "(if you must! )", ... :p

Just 'cos Tiny's not posting, we don't have to have another Devil's Advocate.... ;) :p

Don't do it, is what I recommended. - But if you must, then what I said is easier! :)

Yeah, what ever happened to Tiny?

Last visit March 19th.

Last I heard I think his wife was having a baby, and after that nothing. I guess he has his hands full for now. Probably has a "honeydo" list 2 miles long...............................