Dream Aquarium Screensaver 1.14

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Created by an Academy Award winning visual effects artist, this next-generation virtual aquarium brings the beauty of a lush freshwater aquarium to your screen, complete with gently swaying plants, rippling light effects, and the most realistic fish movement of any screensaver. Watch as your amazing fish school together, chase each other, peck at object in the tank, or drop in some food and watch the feeding frenzy begin. Our engaging fish have moving eyes, gills, mouth and fully articulated fins. Once you see Dream Aquarium, you'll be hooked.

Version 1.14 added two new fish for a total of 18.

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Editor's review of Dream Aquarium Screensaver

If you're into pay-for-use screensavers, it's hard to imagine that there's a better looking one around than Dream Aquarium. Limited to only two fish species in the trial version, the full version sports 18 species for all you ichthymaniacs out there. However, there are no other handicaps, and users can take advantage of the well-drawn and well-animated options for everything from oxygen bubbles to tank background to the camera and animation speed.

There's some neat additional controls, as well: Users can feed the fish, and they can change the animation from 3D-renderings to wireframe. Our most recent XP tests didn't see the flickering we noticed in past past evaluations, though such flickering was noted during tests on Vista machines, indicating that there may be a coding issue and not a graphics card concern. Nevertheless, this is still a screensaver that's sure to relax and entertain.

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  Dream Aquarium Screensaver

  Excellent Screensaver.

  by: mcdaddydouble_d on 08-Jun-2008 08:18:10 PM

  Pros: Paid version offers rewarding features to an already excellent application; i.e., V3CQHA4YBF6eWLQDR7GDFQVSURQh5DJcJCfdT58VeN

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  Dream Aquarium Screensaver

  ANNOYING CRAP

  by: jacobshm on 21-May-2008 02:41:11 PM

  Pros: I admit the graphics are amazing, the views are beautiful and most importantly: different tanks for different monitors

  Cons: If you aren't paying for the full version, you will be quickly annoyed by how often you get pop-ups while watching the tank. All the pros go out the window when it wont play nicely for more than 30 seconds. I wish I still had the one that came with my HP laptop, I lost it with the Vista upgrade.

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  Dream Aquarium Screensaver

  So Real

  by: scottiel07 on 07-May-2008 01:13:33 PM

  Pros: I just love this. I use to have an aquarium and find this to be very realistic. KUDOs to the designers. This really is good beyond anything else I have seen so far.

  Cons: I wish I could use the trial without so many boxes. I know that they want you to purchase it, but it would be nice to just have it run longer without commercials.

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  Dream Aquarium Screensaver

  You Can dream with sound, pictures and colours. Enyoyable!

  by: Lawtimes on 26-Mar-2008 06:54:21 PM

  Pros: All.

  Cons: The way it pleads you to buy some new fish to the aquarium.

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  Dream Aquarium Screensaver

  Best ever

  by: hermit456 on 08-Mar-2008 02:43:28 PM

  Pros: This is the most realistic (fake) aquarium I've ever seen.In fact, it looks more like the bottom of a stream,than it does an aquarium.

  Cons: That it isn't easier to figure out how to get more fish.

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