Are any of our Goldfish users on the Tiger seed list?
I need a few users who have legal access to Tiger to help me test existing products and new builds.
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Goldfish doesn't fit Tiger's Cinema Screen
Goldfish doesn't fit Tiger's Cinema Screen but fit on Panther
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Hi Yonley,
I'm going to be out of the office for a few days, so I won't be able to reply until next week. What size screen do you have? What are the settings on the advanced page for the Full Screen area? How do you mean it doesn't fit? Full screen in the application version is broken and the window won't float to the top. I'm going to fix this in a new build which will have some other improvements. Since the application isn't the main part of the product I'm not planning to do a build specifically to fix this problem. |
Head in the blue gravel
Hi Jim,
OK I'm not on the seed list for Tiger, nor am I going to get myself one of the Intel Developer units. But listen, I apologize for being off the boards for a while. I came back to report my observation of a new version of the Goldfish Aquarium for Windows that has very nice blue gravel that the Macintosh version does not have. I saw it on a few Windows boxes on display at the Issaquah CostCo. - John |
That's the one that comes with Windows MCE 2005.
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I would like the blue gravel for the Apple "Macintosh Media Center" version of GA please :cool: - John |
It does looks surprisingly nice, but I'm not sure I like it better than the normal one... Colored gravel works well with goldfish and it would look good in a living room...
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Nobody asked the goldfish
Doc
We're forgetting the goldfish. In nature there is no blue gravel. Heck I'm not sure it's really gravel but not some kind of colored polished glass? - John |
You're right, I bet no one considered asking the little digital occupants if they liked the new decorating direction Lifegolbe is taking... :lol:
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Goldfish are a figment of man’s imagination. (and intensive inbreeding to produce the various mutations of ‘goldfish') As is blue gravel. Since you will never find both in the wild, why not in an aquarium? |
Touché
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:TU: ;)
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Well said Hon.
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Saw the blue gravel version in a store last week.
I like it. Rob. |
See I told you guys!
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Indeed .... "johnblommers hailing SereneScreen developer and artists - requesting blue gravel screen saver for Macintosh please." over .... |
"AKcrab hailing SereneScreen developers and artists - requesting something, anything, for Macintosh please."
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SereneScreen has one developer/artist. Maybe you're thinking LifeGlobe?
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Hi all,
Sorry for the silent treatment. Goldfish will get some attention this fall. After the developers conference I've been tied up. |
A Mac User's Wishlist
Seeing GA with the blue gravel got me interested in it again. It really is too dreary with the boring brown gravel and brown rocks (even with the plants thrown in!).
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE give us blue gravel?? So we don't get all depressed by our fish in their boring brown tank and switch over to Marine Aquarium instead and neglect our little goldfish friends?? Even better would be gravel where we could pick the color (I'm picturing a slider like the color sliders in Photoshop). Also, I have a 21" display, and when GA is scaled up to fit it full-screen, it makes the fish creepy-big. Could we get a little more control over the scale of the fish? I'd rather NOT have the plants extend to the top of the screen and have the fish end up with a little extra space to swim in and have them be a normal, pet-store size. Hrm.....y'know, I probably ought to post this in the regular GA forum. |
The blue gravel is sorta "poke me in the eye with a stick" but that is why we have mulitple backgrounds in Goldfish. I don't think that a color slider would be very effective for the gravel. We could do it, but it wouldn't give you the look you are asking for. I know we are planning to address the larger monitors.
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the tweaking of gravel
i agree with your "poke me in the eye with a stick" comment...but even though i would NEVER put brightly colored gravel in my tank ("nothing prettier than the fish" is my motto)...real or digital...this is about having a product that pleases your customers.
"gee whiz" stuff like this should always take a backseat to real bugfixes and functional improvements, but i don't see why a gravel color slider isn't possible. you've set the bar for lifelike aquarium screensavers, and now that you have some competition in that arena, why not add some more customizability? in the computer biz, "custom" is the key word in customer. we want it our way. :nag: a possible method would be to use light gray gravel so one can get highlights and shadows, mask it out from the other elements (rocks, plants), and then put in some simple color/brightness sliders. |
A gravel color slider is difficult because of color saturation and luminosity. You can't recreate every possible color with one set of artwork.
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oh, i'm sure not every color is possible and a solution may not be photo-perfect. but i think your users would certainly enjoy the variety!
i AM playing "Devil's Advocate" here... i like the gravel the way it is, personally! |
Can't Choose the Tank in Goldfish
Jim,
A while back in connection with Marine Aquarium, you were the only person able to help me. Everything with that program works perfectly now. Today, I bought Goldfish Aquarium and it doesn't work the way it's supposed to. I have an Apple iMac G5 20" computer running OS X 10.4.3. After I bought Goldfish, the first installation attempt didn't work and I then did Repair Permissions and Disk Warrior and restart without my Intego anti virus. The second installation attempt seemed to work except whenever I switch the tank, nothing happens. I get a random tank in the System Preferences preview and another random tank if I go to Test or the actual screen saver. What am I doing wrong? How can I can Goldfish to stick to the tank I choose for the preview, the test, and the actual screensaver? I remain in your debt. mjnewman@mac.com |
Hi Mark,
Please get in touch with me through the company web site and I'll see what is going on. The prefs are (unfortunately) more complex for Goldfish because of the increased number of features. |
Goldfish Tank Now Works--I figured it out.
Never mind my previous message. I just figured it out. If I uncheck Cycle Tank, then everything looks good. mjnewman@mac.com
Jim, A while back in connection with Marine Aquarium, you were the only person able to help me. Everything with that program works perfectly now. Today, I bought Goldfish Aquarium and it doesn't work the way it's supposed to. I have an Apple iMac G5 20" computer running OS X 10.4.3. After I bought Goldfish, the first installation attempt didn't work and I then did Repair Permissions and Disk Warrior and restart without my Intego anti virus. The second installation attempt seemed to work except whenever I switch the tank, nothing happens. I get a random tank in the System Preferences preview and another random tank if I go to Test or the actual screen saver. What am I doing wrong? How can I can Goldfish to stick to the tank I choose for the preview, the test, and the actual screensaver? I remain in your debt. mjnewman@mac.com[/quote] |
Jim works in mysterious ways
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He just thinks positive thoughts and presto! He never even breaks into a sweat ;) His secret? "Think Different." Seasons greetings SereneScreen-ers ... - John |
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