I saw it on 3dfiles.com also.

Don't remember how I found out about it. It was back at least in 2000. I remember Morgan coming up with a list of fish found in the ss and I gave him some feedback. I remember a lot of the .99 versions ending in letters...b, c, d, etc. I probably have them lying around somewhere. Didn't actually register on this forum till much later though.

aloha,
Neil

I read a review of Goldfish Aquarium online somewhere, downloaded it, and registered it within days. Once I found the forum, I knew I had to try MA!

:heart: I really enjoy them both. :heart:

I saw a huge display of Marine Aquarium 2 at Sam's Club yesterday, for $13-something. Brace yourselves, forum, there are about to be new members! :TU:

Neil,
Given that when Morgan launched feldoncentral.com on December 11th of 2000 the current version was .99D, I'm assuming you didn't discover it much earlier than 2000...

It seems like 3DFiles.com is responsible for bringing quite a lot of users to our crowd. Anybody (Jim?) know if they picked it up themselves or if they were tipped by SereneScreen?

/Tiny Tank

The first public release came out in, I think, August or September 2000.

I was playing around with a Game? called AquaZone.. and decided to do a search for aquarium screen saver and ran across Jim's page and it was at the end of 1998 or early 1999... i have some older files I believe that were .98 or so..but let me do some diggin in some old back ups to veryify that to make sure...

but I have been around this for a while now...LOL

FISH BYTE
 

I saw the screensaver at "best buy" running on a computer with the the plus pack. That same afternoon I searched the internet for it and found jims website and bought it. I have kept up on all updates and check in everyday to see whats new.

Tiny -

I guess you could say that 3DFIles.com was tipped by SereneScreen. Remember, in those early days I WAS SereneScreen -- the programmer, the artist, the tech-support guy, the website. I was in contact with the editor of 3Dfiles.com, and was happy to let them put the program on their site. After a couple of months, they informed me that it was the first program to reach a million downloads. I don't know why their site went under, but I got a lot of business through them.

I saw it on big brother (tv show) and did I search for best fish screen saver.. Then got the program off napster or Kazaa.. Then after realizing what an amazing program it was .. I paid for it..

: )

ha-ha, good for you! :TU:

I found the program on my hard drive the morning after I wrote it.

And were you happy with it?

No. I spent a year improving it before I put it on the Web.

What year was that Jim?

2000

It seems longer than that to me.

Started it in 1999.

I bought it when I had to mail you a check, that is how long I have had the screen saver.

I first saw it on about 500 monitors at Bowlers in Manchester (been going since it first opened) and scrounged a (ahem) dodgy copy off one of the guys. then a while later I decided to see how it had improved and actually paid for it [Sun Apr 29 10:41:54 2001] still got the original receipt. :)

I always pirate things first and then pay for them if I use them enough. EG. I downloaded Doom ]I[ about two weeks ago while I waited for my legal copy to arrive (this morning) :) I don't like cripple ware so I always get a serial or crack from somewhere and then once I decide that a program is for me (IE. I am going to use it more than once or twice) I pay for it.

I am a believer that if someone wants to get a copy of something for nothing they will, and nothing you can do will make them buy it unless they are the type of person who actually buys things, I have registered / bought at least 50+ pieces of online shareware over the years, and believe that piracy has its place in spreading software to people it otherwise would not get to.

I just know I am going to get flamed for this one :D

To each his own and I applaud your courage to admit it.