Marine Aquarium 2.0

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Summary: Marine Aquarium Screensaver software
Review: Absolutely fantastic..........
As good as the real aquarium that I have with the advantage that the fish never have to be fed or the system kept clean and balanced !!

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Summary: Very realistic aquarium screensaver
Review: I first found Marine Aquarium version 1.1 and loved it. I upgraded to 2.0 a few weeks ago. This is a very good product. The fish look so realistic you could be watching a DVD of an actual aquarium. I havent had any unwanted side effects like lockups. I'm running it now on a 2-year old computer (with an AMD Athlon 1.3 Ghz processor and an Nvidia Geforce2 graphics card). It works fine there. On the other hand, I tried installing version 1.1 on a 5 year old computer (pentium 3 - 500 mhz with a bargain video card). That didn't work. You need a fairly recent computer to be able to handle these detailed graphics.

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Summary: Don't bother
Review: I just bought this SS after seeing it live in action at the store. It looked great. Well at least at the store. I have a 3 GH CPU, 1024 of DDR RAM, and a 64 MB video card in my laptop. (The laptop is 1 month old) When it does run, it is SLOW and choppy. The bubbles suck, and the fish swim as if they are about to go belly up and end up at the top of the tank. Thankfully the store I bought it at is offering me a full return.

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Summary: Buy this screensaver now! It is awesome
Review: I've had the screensaver for years I had a version of it before, when 1.0 and have not regretted buying it. This is a screensaver that you just want to watch. It has the most amazing wow factor. People will just stare in amazement at it.

This screensaver currently will not run on dual monitor setups. But almost any graphics card made in the last three years will power it perfectly. Even if you have an integrated graphics card (one that's attached to the motherboard). It should work perfectly, at any resolution up to 1024 x 768. With that kind of card.

So enjoy it!

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Summary: Excellent Screesaver
Review: If you like aquariums...without all the fuss, you'll like this screensaver. Very realistic fish and the starfish even moves up on the glass. If you have to pay for a screensaver, this is the one.

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Summary: The best screensaver that I've seen
Review: It's absolutely amazing. I can stay there watching it all day, it's so soothing and beautiful. I wish there were more features like more fish (although there's 26 already) and it would have been nice if we can change the background a little bit and the look of the aquarium. But those would be just bonuses, the screensaver is already perfect like it is. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Amazing graphics
Review: The graphics are amazing. My local CompUSA was using this on all of their demo monitors, and I just had to have it. It is a lot of fun. And you don't have to clean the tank! But one watchout... I don't recommended it for "slower" machines... it totally bogs down my Pentium II 333 at work... had to uninstall it. Works great on P3 933.

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Summary: Amazing graphics
Review: The graphics are amazing. My local CompUSA was using this on all of their demo monitors, and I just had to have it. It is a lot of fun. And you don't have to clean the tank! But one watchout... I don't recommended it for "slower" machines... it totally bogs down my Pentium II 333 at work... had to uninstall it. Works great on P3 933.

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Summary: Own an aquarium without all the work
Review: The most beautiful screensaver I've ever seen! I only wish there were a lot more fish to choose from, but the fish are so life-like you can't complain! I've owned salt-water fish when I was younger and this is a LOT EASIER! HIGHLY recommended to anyone looking for something beautiful to put on their computer screens. I sit at work and watch mine and soon I am in a trance.

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Summary: Breathaking realistic and flexible
Review: This has been my favorite screen saver.

I have seen most of these fish in their natural settings. The ones in this program look realistic. Their movement appears natural in all dimensions. The Lionfish is a particularly breathaking work of art. The spines, fins and tail move independently. The eyes are not static. Each fish moves in and out of the immoble coral base. My resident purist objected to the fact that some of the coral, and fish would not exist together in nature in the same place. My resident pursit also noted that there ought to be sea urchins. On the other hand, I did not have to swallow any salt water or get a sunburn to see the display.

The program installed easily and did not upset the rest of my computer settings. It is easy to change shading, contrast brightness and on-off timing. Th program easily adapts to screens of varying dimensions You only get a limited number of fish together at a given time. At first this bothered me and I wanted more simultaneously. I changed my mind after I tried out another aquarium program that allows many more fish. After a while I decided that too many fish become distracting and less realistic.

Marine Aquarium makes it easy to change the visible fish. Kids who come into my office like to change the fish themselves. Several of the available fish are similar to some of the stars of "Finding Nemo" and the kids like to make sure that these fish are visible.