Official show your virtual aquarium thread...

riz · 10-24-2001, 05:04 PM

I thought it would be cool to see others full-time virtual aquariums, l'll get the ball rolling:

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I've got a 17" flatscreen Viewsonic aquarium, powered by my old PII 400mhz with a GeForce MX400... runs silky smooth at 1280 and looks great...

My aquarium runs nearly full time... actually it only runs when someone's in the room. I'll explain, my house runs a bunch of X10 home automation and I'm running the PC via an appliance module with a motion detector controlling it. It's set to turn on when it detects motion and turn off after 2 hours with no motion. I set the bios to reboot after a power failure so when the motion detector cuts the power and then when motion is detected, win2K boots up and starts the aquarium within minutes. Probably not the best thing for the PC but it's old and has worked this way for a month with no probs. The major benefit is it's always on when someones home and off when it should be

Thanx for listening and please post some of your virtual aquariums too

riz

Jim Sachs · 10-24-2001, 06:11 PM

Nice setup!

feldon34 · 10-24-2001, 07:38 PM

One suggestion.

Swap it so DVDs and Dreamcast games play on your computer monitor and the Aquarium plays on the TV.

10-24-2001, 05:04 PM	#1
riz Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 30	Official show your virtual aquarium thread... I thought it would be cool to see others full-time virtual aquariums, l'll get the ball rolling: [img]http://[/img] I've got a 17" flatscreen Viewsonic aquarium, powered by my old PII 400mhz with a GeForce MX400... runs silky smooth at 1280 and looks great... My aquarium runs nearly full time... actually it only runs when someone's in the room. I'll explain, my house runs a bunch of X10 home automation and I'm running the PC via an appliance module with a motion detector controlling it. It's set to turn on when it detects motion and turn off after 2 hours with no motion. I set the bios to reboot after a power failure so when the motion detector cuts the power and then when motion is detected, win2K boots up and starts the aquarium within minutes. Probably not the best thing for the PC but it's old and has worked this way for a month with no probs. The major benefit is it's always on when someones home and off when it should be Thanx for listening and please post some of your virtual aquariums too riz Last edited by riz; 03-12-2002 at 01:29 PM.

10-24-2001, 06:11 PM	#2
Jim Sachs Developer Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 9,771	Re: Official show your virtual aquarium thread... Nice setup! Jim Sachs Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium

10-24-2001, 07:38 PM	#3
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	Re: Official show your virtual aquarium thread... One suggestion. Swap it so DVDs and Dreamcast games play on your computer monitor and the Aquarium plays on the TV. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman