Windows Fish Screensaver

[Jacquelyne Betance]

Transformyour computer screen into a living fish tank with these aquarium screensavers for Microsoft Windows and/or Mac OS X. These freeware and shareware screensavers feature varying degrees of realism, interactivity, species of fish, aquarium accessories and decor.

The Koi Fish 3D Screensaver is a highly customizable way to add bit of Asian flair to your computer. Some of its options, however, seem a bit esoteric and contrary to the relaxing simplicity the screensaver tries to inspire.

The graphics are lovely, with not-quite-photo-realistic renderings of koi swimming in shallow water. The scene is framed with leaves, as though users are peering down through trees into a tranquil stream. The water surface ripples and occasionally a dragonfly buzzes past. However, the trial version plays only briefly before being interrupted by a large text box encouraging users to buy the program; this nag screen remains until the screensaver is purchased.

The configuration menu is easily accessed and intuitive. Users can enjoy the gentle Japanese-inspired music that comes with the screensaver or easily select songs of their own. Or turn off the music entirely to listen to the splashing water and birdsong, sounds that are also easily disabled. The volume of both the music and sounds can be adjusted independently.

Somewhat less helpfully, users are offered the options of "high water quality," "shadows," and "caustic" video settings that result in nearly imperceptible changes in the graphics. Likewise, the "gamma control" setting allows users to adjust the brightness of the screensaver, but it seems to be at its best when left at the default setting.

It is well known that watching fish can ease tension and help us fight stress. But what if there's no place for an aquarium on your desk? The serenity and quietness of underwater world is perfectly captured in Koi Fish 3D, a screensaver showing an ornamental pond with Japanese fish. Crystal-clear water looking unbelievably real, lots of Koi fish of the most stunning colors, and pleasant sound. Version 1 build 2 includes Vista compatibility.

With free virtual fish tank screensaver, you can now have an illusion of a real aquarium without the worry of taking care of the fish.You never have to watch the same 3D aquarium screensaver twice!Underwater 4k aquarium environment is completely different, all the fishes and bubbles are calculated every time in 3D.

With multiple options, you can choose from a wide range saltwater and freshwater tropical fish tanks, adjust a number of swimming fish and way they swim in the 3d screensaver. Animated underwater backgrounds and lights, together with the free floating bubbles and soothing underwater sounds (one sea surf sound, and one bubbling water sound), create the perfect atmosphere for social and romantic occasions or simply while relaxing at home.

Marine settings of aquarium screensaver include many popular saltwater fish varieties from every ocean of the world.For anyone who has expressed an interest in recreating undersea enviroments in the home or office. Free 3D Fish Tank Wallpapers include:

Time is at the core of your business, and tracking it is critical.The digital clock with calendar offers the perfect way to know actual time and will help you track your time easily and accurately.It displays current year, month, day, hours and minutes. You can select from 12/24 hour mode and adjust color of digital clock and calendar.

This 3D animated aquarium screensaver works under Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista (32 bit and 64 bit).You can try 3D aquarium software before you buy it, free downloading the demo version. A small screen saver download size makes it an easy install to your computer. If you want to run the Windows screensaver on your PC, here is what it takes:

The more free fish screensavers are available for minor updates of 3D software. When you buy, full version can be free downloaded immediately.A small file size makes it an easy download to your computer desktop.Our ecommerce providers ensures that you get your full version as soon as possible, making purchase based on your own familiar currency and payment method.

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Hans Spiller was hired by Microsoft in 19811 and Dave Norris joined in July 19842 where they both worked on XENIX language C compilers, assemblers and debuggers1,2,3. In 1987 they wrote a game in Macro-80 assembly language4 based on the solitaire game Mahjong and called it Taipei5.

"Dave Norris and I were talking about Taipei (played with Mah-Jong tiles) one day, and we decided that we really ought to have a copyright notice. We thought about crediting it to Microsoft, but we'd written it about half at MS and half at home and it was (at that time) definitely not part of the MS product line. One of us (neither of can remember which it was) suggested giving the copyright as Bogus Software. We invited a number of other people who had written recreational programs to play along."6

Other people included Ed Fries and Tom Saxton who jointly wrote the famous Fish! screensaver. Fries was a summer intern in 1985 before being hired in March 1986 to join a team of six people working on Excel 2.07,8. He had previously published the Atari games 'Princess and the Frog' (1982), 'Ant Eater' (1983) and 'Sea Chase' (1983) and years later he ended up managing Microsoft Game Studios where he released the XBox8. His boss at Microsoft was Chris Peters9 who wrote the Reversi game included in Windows 1.0. Tom Saxton was hired in 1987 to join the Macintosh Word team10. They were joined in 1988 by intern Wes Cherry who wrote Solitaire that summer.11,12

The group wrote games at work because "when you're a programmer, especially back then, you have a lot of free time, because you make changes and you compile. And for a big project, a compile would take about 10 minutes."8 Windows 2.0 was released in December 1987 and during the summer of 1988 the group created a Windows poker server and each person wrote a poker player to compete against each other8.

Fries remembers, "We were writing little poker AIs as just something fun to do on the side and we had a little front end so we could watch them play. And we needed cards."12 One anonymous member of the Excel team says, "Of course we needed a DLL to draw the cards and so one evening I wrote the 50 lines of code or so and called it cards.dll. We were programmers, not artists, so initially we did screen grabs of a DOS solitaire game's cards and used those bitmaps." He also remembers, "We had an interface so the dealer could deal hands to any set of player programs and then the AI in the individual players would bet and we'd see who wrote the best player."13 Fries states that it was Cherry who "ripped graphics from a card game for DOS" with the Bogus Software programmers using the cards.dll file for their poker programs9. Cherry writes, "At the time there was an internal 'company within a company' called Bogus software. It was really just a server where [a] bunch of guys [were] having fun hacking Windows to learn [how] the API tossed their games."11

Robert Donner was not a member of Bogus Software but remembers uploading Minesweeper to "the internal shared servers"9 and in another interview says a friend uploaded the game "to an internal server"12. This server is mentioned by Norris in an early Help file where he writes, "Taipei is not yet available in computer software stores" but "you can get it from the bogus directory in \\windex\public"3. The server was later a goldmine for Bruce Ryan when he became Product Manager for the Windows Entertainment Pack in 19906,9.

"Bogus Software is a little teeny division of Microsoft that was accidently founded by Dave Norris and Hans Spiller while they were trying to figure out how to avoid working on Codeview and the C Compiler, which is what they were supposed to be doing. It quickly got to be a lot of fun, and soon quite a few other people were joining up, also trying to figure out how to get out of what they were supposed to be doing, all the while thinking up clever ways to waste peoples time."14

Spiller remembers, "Todd Laney even took to putting it into the diagnostic tools he'd written"6. Laney had joined Microsoft in 1987 and in 1990 wrote a task manager program called "Windows Process Status" with Charlie Kindel and Ed Halley. WPS 1.09 survives copyright 1990-1992 and it credits Bogus Software.

Spiller wrote several games at Microsoft including a Space Invaders clone and a Space Wars clone6. Space War! 0.00 was released for Windows 1.0 on 3 March 1987 and credits Bogus Software but forgot to mention Spiller! Version 0.12 from 7 August 1990 also survives and the Help file claims the Bogus Software logo is called "the Glyph of Bogosity"14. Both games almost made it into WEP but "while space invaders was obviously a clone and the lawyers killed it right away, my spacewar/asteroids game is on much stronger legal ground, and the lawyers let me do quite a bit of work on it before killing it just a few days before we went golden on Windows Entertainment Package Version 1."6

The earliest surviving version of Taipei is 1.02 from 3 April 1987 copyright Bogus Software. The source code for version 2.00 credits "David Norris and Hans Spiller" and jokes that "Bogus software does not do revision histories"4. Other versions included 3.10 (May 1990) and 3.50 (August 1990) with 3.50 adding a Help file and already requiring an ABOUTWEP.DLL file to run. However, it was version 4.00 that was released by Microsoft as part of WEP 1 while 5.00 was published by Norris in 1991 as shareware. These later versions credit Norris and thank Spiller "for ideas" except in the WEP version which does not mention Spiller.

Norris had written a chess game which he ported to Windows 3.0 on 11 October 1990 as "Win Chess 1.0"15. A second release of Win Chess 1.0 and a version 1.01 added more openings moves to its library and revamped Chess was released by Microsoft in WEP 4 (1992). The original version notes "This is the first released version of my WinChess chess program for Microsoft Windows". The Help file for version 2.0 explained that "As my Taipei program proved to be very popular as a shareware program, I've decided to make WinChess shareware as well" and he thanked "fellow bogusites" Hans and Ferg. The latter was Scott Ferguson who was hired in November 1986 and later became the Development Lead for Visual Basic.16,17 Ferguson wrote QUADominoes in July 1990 and it was released as TetraVex in WEP 3 (1991).

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