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Join Date: Oct 2004
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How many years have we been waiting?
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#2 |
PC Professional
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: virginia beach, va
Posts: 147
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--- it is in the works....
you sound a little disgruntled..... have patience grasshopper...perfection takes time.... |
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#3 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 3
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Hehe - actually - not really - just truly disappointed.... Patient for months or a year... This has been years. I have not been using the screensaver for a while - and then saw a link somewhere and said "Oh, Yeah!" and then quickly remembered this flaw... So I decided to check things out.
When a promised feature is ignored and ignored for YEARS to develop new products (goldfish and freshwater - which were both unavailable when I last used the SS), it becomes obvious that there is no intention on developing it... Otherwise, wouldn't we see some beta action? Lets see the schedule now! -Howie |
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#4 |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 233
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Development has stalled. There is no schedule.
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#5 |
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 3
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See - so then there's nothing to be patient about. Basically we were lied to.
Sure, we'll get the animated background... SereneScreen for PRESIDENT! |
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#6 |
the Doc
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Zeeland, MI
Posts: 5,355
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Dude, you need to chill a little, there's been plenty of progress made while you've been gone, you just weren't around to wittness it and it wasn't what you were hoping for. We were never lied to, that's why Jim never gives ETAs, we can't be lied to... It'll show up eventually, but it's anybody's guess as to when...
I don't watch commercials.
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#7 |
Smilie Dragon
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Lebanon, PA
Posts: 4,725
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So please buddy, don't get all upset. It is coming. ![]()
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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#8 |
Only me...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Essex, England
Posts: 2,584
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I think we'd better shoot the driver of that bus, though, just in case.
{ Currently feeling disgruntled at late buses, missing buses, late trains and trains that then crawl along causing one to miss one's connecting train and get in at 12:30 at night! Grrr! This is a perfect excuse for revenge!!! }
Mark
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#9 |
Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,785
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Turns out, creating a 3D backgound is hard.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium |
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Leopard Shark
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Posts: 115
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3D BACKGROUND
Wasn't the main "reason" for making the fresh water screensaver and 3D background for it, (a couple of years ago) that in order to get serenescreen into stores there needed to be two products instead of just one. Now that you can go into any wal mart, best buy or comp usa and get serenescreen screensavers, is it still as important to get the freshwater screensaver out there? With the new goldfish and shark screensavers out, now im not so sure about another freshwater fish screensaver selling in any great numbers. Would not some creature packs for the existing marine aquarium make more since and or cents, while bringing back some life to a neglected screensaver that is still the best out there ?
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#11 |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Re: 3D BACKGROUND
Originally posted by EVERRET For what it is worth... I would agree.
Would not some creature packs for the existing marine aquarium make more sense and or cents, while bringing back some life to a neglected screensaver that is still the best out there ? |
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#12 |
Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,785
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Didn't we just cover all this a week or two ago?
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium |
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#13 |
Retired
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Posts: 2,441
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Yes, and frequently before that as well. Any excuse to add my 2 cents towards developing enhancements to the current Screen Saver. It is not my call but if you polled the membership I would guess they would overwhelmingly favor all the "extras" that have been alluded to over the years instead of developing the 3D.
I appreciate the challenge (and honour) of trying to be the first to represent a realistic illusion of a 3D background. Serene Screen certainly set the standard for aquariums that is still unmatched several years later.... But! |
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Forum Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 10,939
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The "extras" are impossible without the 3D background.
"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 |
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#15 |
Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,785
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Correct. For invertabrates to be crawling around and fish interacting with the background objects, those objects must actually exist in 3D space (OK, VIRTUALLY exist).
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium |
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Leopard Shark
Join Date: Nov 2001
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3D BACKGROUND
Thanks for the reply's, Sorry I missed the thread if this was allready discussed a week or two ago. Keep up the good work Jim, I will be the first in line when the freshwater screensaver, 3D background and creature packs are released.
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#17 |
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 233
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Re: 3D BACKGROUND
Originally posted by EVERRET Assuming you're alive in 2015. I will be the first in line when the freshwater screensaver, 3D background and creature packs are released. ![]() ![]() |
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#18 |
Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,785
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... and assuming I'M alive in 2015 (a much bigger assumtion, given the fact that I'm roughly as old as dirt).
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium |
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#19 |
Registered
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Lancashire, UK
Posts: 7,854
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... cheer up Jim, isn't dirt everlasting?
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#20 |
~Author~
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Rocky Mount, NC
Posts: 7,429
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Yeah, Cliff and I are still here.
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Write paranormal mysteries. Six books so far.
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