Marine Aquarium 3 Rumors and Speculation

[Jim Sachs]

Hi, Doug - No time for a new pic, fixing bugs.

[mZex]

fixing bugs? i didnt know you'd already got onto the critters

so Jim - been a few years of hard, extreme, intense and awesome work - what sorta price you thinking on putting on that - cos ... if i gotta take out a mortgage il need to know

[Jim Sachs]

Prolific is setting the price. I believe it's the same as the previous version - $19.95, with a $9.95 upgrade from v2.6.

[JEBrady]

Originally posted by dwax:

I been here for over a decade and am not testing. LOL I just don't post that much.

EDIT:
Did get to test all the first ones. All the .99 alpha's without smoking my system.

Still have them all too. From 99E to 99L and V990, V999  

I started with 99F myself. There's gotta be a bunch of us.

[Hot]

I too started with the .99's. I think i even bought it in the .99 stage.
I can't believe it's been this long and i still can't wait for Jim's art work !!!
As a matter of fact I remember the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 days, Fun times.
Can hardly wait Jim fix them bugs!!!!

[dwax]

Yep, I had a AMD 1200 Mgz cpu 125mb of ram an 8gig HD and a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP. And it ran like a charm. That was pretty fast computer then. And still have it in storage.

[pnevai]

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

Time has little meaning for programmers. Afternoon, night, Tuesday, Sunday, July, January...it's all about the same to me. Sometimes when I look out the window in the computer room it does seem a little brighter or darker, greener or whiter - but other than that one time is as good as any other.

Things may change when I get this thing done and on the market. Maybe I can actually go outside and enjoy the remainder of whatever season this is.  

First you have to find the keys to the handcuffs. Could they be in the body of the unconcious CCNE lying near by?

[pnevai]

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

MIDI is just one option. If you don't like MIDI music, just load WAV or MP3 files.

As to whether it's necessary, here's the reaction of Prolific's in-house Beta Tester upon trying out MA3 for the first time yesterday:

" WOW! Who came up with the idea of a music play list?
This feature kicks butt!
I have it running on XP MCE (Flawlessly) with a Linkin Park mp3 playing in the background, bubble sound on. The music auto rewinds when over. That was a GREAT idea!
This could be a HUGE selling point!
I'd buy this right now just on this alone.
The graphics are amazing but I can use MY songs or audio files? WOW "  

See you just doomed yourself, because now that there's is a play list someone will get the brilliant Idea of making it a visulaizer plugin for Microsoft Media Player with the fish swimming in time with the music.

[rctneil]

How are the fish picker and multimonitor parts going? and have you found a decent set of midi instruments to be distributed with it yet? - Can we ahve a sneak preview of what the default sound track will be? - Just to keep us going!

[Stew2000]

The sound of bubbles and an air pump is usually the default sound track

[Jim Sachs]

The FishPicker interface and multimonitor stuff is in the hands of the Alpha testers. They are finding lots of bugs, so I'm currently tracking those down. The multimonitor stuff is especially frustrating because there are millions of combinations of computers/video cards/drivers/monitors out there, and they all seem to behave differently.

Spent a few hours on the MIDI stuff last night. Found some interesting possibilities.

The default sound track is Pachelbel's Canon.

[patscarr]

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

The default sound track is Pachelbel's Canon.  

Feldon, Jav, once MA3 is released, the default music when visiting the forum should be Pachelbel's Canon as well!

[Jav400]

Nah, I like JMJ's - Jonques de Pecheurs au Crepuscule.

It's what I play instead.

[ESHIREY]

That would be cool. I really like the sound of the song.

[shade2074]

What is all this talk of 'bugs' are you adding fish food to MA3 now?
I hope someone is keeping screen shots of the bugs for the bloopers section of the MA3 disc, it will be fun to see first hand all the things we've been reading about in the forums.

[Sergiales]

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

The default sound track is Pachelbel's Canon.  

It promises to be relaxing. Great!.

[rctneil]

Any recent developments?

Thanks

Regards,
Neil

[Jim Sachs]

The Alpha testers are finding bugs, and we're fixing them.

[dboyd420]

Jim, if the fish will be able to have the behavior of swimming in schools, have you thought of adding a random size feature. It would be nice so there is not a bunch of clones swimming together.

-Dave

[Jim Sachs]

The new behavior and sizing will not be in the first release, but will follow shortly. Not only will fish of the same species be different sizes, but slightly different markings.