Mark and Trish's El-Fish Page
Welcome to our El-Fish Page. If you are not familiar with El-Fish, it
is a simulation game, written by team that created Tetris, that lets you
simulate the breeding and evolution of fish. You can set up your own aquaria
and watch your fish right on your computer screen.
We found El-Fish for dirt cheap at our local discount store, because
it is apparently no longer being distributed. It was carried by Maxis (best
known for The Sims and Sim City) until Maxis was acquired by Electronic Arts.
On these pages, we will be featuring some of our fishes. Each page will
feature one fish we caught from the "wild," as well as all of
its descendants. Click on any of the fish below to go to a page showing
a family tree of that fish's descendants. If you would like to use some
of our fishes for use in your El-Fish aquaria, you can download roe for
each family in either HQX or ZIP format.
Unfortunately, El-Fish just about impossible to find these days, and it seems to be very difficult to run on modern Windows systems. (We run it on OS 9.x on the Macintosh platform, but believe it works on Mac OS X in classic mode.) For this reason, we don't anticipate to be making many additions to these pages, as fewer and fewer people can run the game.
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The Veil Tail Family
The veil tails are a family of small, guppy-like fish. They come in a
variety of colors. Related to the veil tails are the chauncies, several
species of larger fish known for their pink and blue stripes and prominent
red dorsal fins. (Pictured: Common Veil Tail)
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The Schrank Family
The schranks range in size from quite small to fairly big. They can be
either spherical in shape or flat like a discus fish. Somehow they manage
to be ungainly and cute at the same time. (Pictured: Giant Scrhank)
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Camp Shaw Fish (Page 1)
Just a few of the many fish created by Jonathan Shaw, Catrina Shaw, and Josey Walton at Camp Shaw.
(Pictured: Batfin)
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Camp Shaw Fish (Page 2)
More fish created by Jonathan Shaw, Catrina Shaw, and Josey Walton at Camp Shaw. (Pictured: Plume)
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Guest Fish
We've also started making some guest fish available, for your viewing
and downloading pleasure. (Pictured: Swedish Disaster)
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AAA's Fish (Page 1)
AAA sent us a whole bunch of great fish, some beautiful and some bizarre.
(Pictured: Glasgow)
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AAA's Fish (Page 2)
More fish from AAA. (Pictured: Pyxis)
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Other El-Fish Resources
This list is dwindling as links expire...
- El-Fish FAQ Version 1.0--We are proud to host
the extensive El-Fish FAQ, courtesy of El-Breeder! (ZIP format)
- Aqua Zone--The next generation
of aquarium simulation programs. Aqua Zone lets you simulate real, rather
than imaginary, fish which live, breed, and die. We have not tried
it, but it sounds great!
- The El-Fish Tank--Phill
Spulick's El-Fish page, with fish, tanks, objects, and sounds to
download.
- Maxis's
El-Fish: From Russia with Gills--An article from Wired 1.2.
- Scootie and the El-Fish--Susan
Langston Pence's El-Fish page. This was first El-Fish fan page and is still
going strong. You can also find disk images of the El-Fish program (PC
version) to download!
- Senusi's
El-Fish Archive--Senusi Lewis' El-Fish page, with some very nice fish
and tanks. You can also find disk images of the El-Fish program (Mac
version) to download!
- The
Lady Phantom El-Fish Roe Archive--Hundreds of roe files for you to download.
- The
Virtual FishTask--The Museum of Science in Boston has an exhibit called the Virtual
FishTank, which it acquired from the Computer Museum.
Personal Sites
Please send us e-mail at: mark-and-trish@geocities.com.
http://geocities.datacellar.net/mark-and-trish/
Last Modified: November 11, 2003
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