FishTank Aquarium Screensaver

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JoeA said:
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.
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Thanks, I was one of the people looking for one. Had it installed, it's
a nice one.

Mike Sa
 
Ummmmmm said:
Neat!!!
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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.
 
John said:
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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I agree, John. Screensavers and games are categories that programmers
insist on packaging with installers.

Mike Sa
 
* John Corliss Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 2004-01-19:
Ummmmmm wrote:
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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.
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Install at your own risk.
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FYI an scr file is an executable with a different extension. No more
risk installing SCR file then the above.
 
On 19 Jan 2004, ms wrote
John Corliss wrote:
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I agree, John. Screensavers and games are categories that
programmers insist on packaging with installers.
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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?
 
Ummmmmm wrote:
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-snip-
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.
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Install at your own risk.
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FYI an scr file is an executable with a different extension. No
more risk installing SCR file then the above.[/QUOTE]

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?
 
Harvey said:
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FYI an scr file is an executable with a different extension. No
more risk installing SCR file then the above.
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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?[/QUOTE]

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.
 
Sietse said:
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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I just figured it was for newbies who don't know how to put a
fishtank.scr file into the C:/Windows/System folder
 
While strolling through alt.comp.freeware, JoeA was overheard
plotting:
I just figured it was for newbies who don't know how to put a
fishtank.scr file into the C:/Windows/System folder
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That's the typical reason when there is nothing more then an SCR file.
 
Harvey said:
On 19 Jan 2004, ms wrote



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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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.
 
While strolling through alt.comp.freeware, Roger Schlafly was
overheard plotting:
http://www.littlebitsmultimedia.com/littlebits/html/littlebits_down
loads.htm

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?
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Microsoft Plus comes with a pretty realistic one:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/windowsxp/ss.htm
 
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:07:44 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:

Hi,
I have that one and it is VERY impressive. It is called Marine
Aquarium and can be found at the SereneScreen site. Just google for
it. Also, on the site is a link for A goldfish saver from a company
called Prolific which is just as impressive.
Bob
 
Bob said:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:07:44 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:

Hi,
I have that one and it is VERY impressive. It is called Marine
Aquarium and can be found at the SereneScreen site. Just google for
it. Also, on the site is a link for A goldfish saver from a company
called Prolific which is just as impressive.
Bob
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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.
 
* John Corliss Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 2004-01-20:
It's not freeware though. In this group, we are supposed to be
discussing freeware.
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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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