- FishTank Aquarium Screensaver
- Posted by JoeA on January 18th, 2004
In the "A Day Late and a Dollar Short" catagory, I remember someone was
looking for these a while ago.
Near the bottom of the page, a few other interesting things there too.
- Posted by ms on January 18th, 2004
JoeA wrote:
Thanks, I was one of the people looking for one. Had it installed, it's
a nice one.
Mike Sa
- Posted by Ummmmmm on January 18th, 2004
ms<msa@nospa.com> wrote in news:400AB7F7.309D2562@teleport.com:
Neat!!!
- Posted by John Corliss on January 19th, 2004
Ummmmmm wrote:
That's another one of those screensavers that requires installation.
I.E. comes as an .exe in a .zip download. I see no reason why a
screensaver shouldn't be an .scr in a .zip file download.
Install at your own risk.
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- Posted by ms on January 19th, 2004
John Corliss wrote:
insist on packaging with installers.
Mike Sa
- Posted by SINNER on January 19th, 2004
* John Corliss Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 2004-01-19:
FYI an scr file is an executable with a different extension. No more
risk installing SCR file then the above.
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- Posted by Harvey Van Sickle on January 19th, 2004
On 19 Jan 2004, ms wrote
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Generally for no good reason, as far as I can tell.
Is there any way to extract the .scr from installers like these -- any
*legitimate* way, that is?
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- Posted by Harvey Van Sickle on January 19th, 2004
On 19 Jan 2004, SINNER wrote
-snip-
That's true, but not all executables need to be installed to the
registry.
Risk questions aside, why should it be necessary to "install" a .scr
program?
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- Posted by Sietse Fliege on January 19th, 2004
Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
This one screensaver is made with one of Clickteam's products.
It installs their Multimedia Fusion runtime library cncs232.dll in the
system(32) folder.
If you already have that dll (from another screensaver or game), the
installer checks it version and tells you if it is older/newer than that
version and asks you if it should be overwritten.
It keeps a shared use count of that dll in the SharedDLLs key in the
registry.
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Sietse Fliege
- Posted by JoeA on January 19th, 2004
Sietse Fliege wrote:
fishtank.scr file into the C:/Windows/System folder
- Posted by SINNER on January 19th, 2004
While strolling through alt.comp.freeware, JoeA was overheard
plotting:
That's the typical reason when there is nothing more then an SCR file.
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David
- Posted by John Corliss on January 19th, 2004
Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
It depends. Sometimes distros are packages in a self extracting
executable. Those can be opened in most .zip compatible archiving
programs. However, if the distro is an installation package, then one
is pretty much out of luck.
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- Posted by Roger Schlafly on January 19th, 2004
Last time I was in Circuit City, they were showing off a couple of monitors
with a fishtank demo. It looked really good. In fact, I thought that it
looked
better than a real fishtank. Any idea where I can find that program?
- Posted by SINNER on January 19th, 2004
While strolling through alt.comp.freeware, Roger Schlafly was
overheard plotting:
Microsoft Plus comes with a pretty realistic one:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/windowsxp/ss.htm
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David
- Posted by John Corliss on January 20th, 2004
SINNER wrote:
It's not freeware though. In this group, we are supposed to be
discussing freeware.
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nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.
- Posted by John Corliss on January 20th, 2004
Bob Horvath wrote:
Bob, that's probably the one all right, but just to clarify things,
it's not available as freeware. Only a demo download is available.
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or warez please.
- Posted by SINNER on January 20th, 2004
* John Corliss Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 2004-01-20:
John, get off my back, the poster asked about a specific program which
is not likely freeware but the question stemmed from a freeware
discussion. The day you stop posting OT shit in this group With or
without an [OT] tag is the day all discussion other then freeware can be
given the door, until then stop being so anal. Next time read the
previous post rather then jumping on someones back.
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- Posted by Rob on January 20th, 2004
JoeA wrote:
Anyone tried the Marine Aquarium at
http://regman.freeze.com/survey/mari...ex.asp?f=forum ??
It looks like registrationware
Rob
- Posted by JoeA on January 21st, 2004
Rob wrote:
http://camtech2000.net/Pages/SpySite...l#SpySitesFree
lists the freeze.com as being at least a little shady.
If you download it I would run Ad-aware and Spybot pronto. It may be ok.
- Posted by Vic Dura on January 21st, 2004
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:39:33 GMT, RE: Re: FishTank Aquarium
Screensaver SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.INVALID> wrote:
Well said.
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