News

31 July 2008
All the software titles have been upgraded! Get the new versions from the download page.
15 June 2008
Now Heart On Fire Screensaver and Fire Heart Desktop Gadget are 100% FREE! Grab them from the download page!
5 September 2007
Check this out - Free Fire Wallpapers!
5 July 2007
New version of Fantastic Flame Screensaver.
In this version (donwload):
- Ability to play playlist along with other media files.
4 July 2007
New version of Free Fire Screensaver.
In this version (download):
- Two new built-in soundtracks have been introduced - Romantic and Melancholic.
- Ability to play playlist along with other media files.
27 June 2007
We have released a new application - Heart On Fire Screensaver!
Please take a look here - Heart On Fire Screensaver.
10 May 2007
A new registration option is availabe - now it's possible to get our software for FREE!
More details at the registration page.
25 April 2007
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 5.40 has been released.
- Two new built-in soundtracks have been introduced - Romantic and Melancholic.
8 March 2007
Our site received completely new look!
7 March 2007
New Application! Fire Heart Desktop Gadget 1.00 has been released. Bring a real living flaming heart on your desktop!
Take a look here - Fire Heart Desktop Gadget.
14 January 2007
Free Fire Screensaver 1.10 has been released.
- A few improvements take place.
10 January 2007
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 5.30 has been released.
- Five nice flaming Fantasy Pictures have been introduced!
12 December 2006
New FREE stuff at our site! Free Fire Screensaver 1.00 has been released.
Take a look here - Free Fire Screensaver.
29 November 2006
Fantastic Flame 5.20 has been released.
- Now you can enjoy with the fire using MS Windows Vista!
21 October 2006
The page about fire styles and backgrounds has been added to the site.
On this page you can find the complete list of Fantastic Flame Screensaver fire styles and backgrounds.
10 October 2006
Our fire screensaver has been upgraded to version 5.15.
- Nothing special in this build, just some performance improvement.
18 September 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 5.1 has been released!
- Now Fantastic Flame screensaver has got 9 nice fire sounds to choose from!
06 September 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 5.0 has been released! We have tried to bring a new cool look to whole Fantastic Flame project.
- Totally new fire-style interface has been added to the program! New graphics, logos, icons, etc.! All the theme is fire-like!
- Total www.LaconicSoftware.com redesign has been performed.
14 August 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.75 available! Some new burning styles and backgrounds have been added:
  - "Magma" fire style
  - "Keep out!" fire background
  - "Skull and Snakes" fire background
15 June 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.71 has been released! New fire backgrounds have been added in this version:
- "Rose" fire background
- "Sword" fire background
30 May 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.7 here!
- The flame picture quality has been greatly improved. Now Fantastic Flame uses MMX instructions in the whole fire rendering algorithm. For example, it consumes 0% of CPU resources on Athlon-2800 computer with 1280x1024 desktop resolution.
12 May 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.6 has been released!
  - Fantastic Flame Agent introduced. It's a tiny (20 Kb) program that shows an icon in the System Tray and enables a hotkey. Now Pyromaniacs can launch Fantastic Flame easily anytime they want with the flame tray icon or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F hotkey.
  - In the free trial version the full-screen nag has been removed! The trial is NOT limited by time, so you can enjoy a realistic fire screensaver for free!
  - Perfomance greatly improved. Now Fantastic Flame runs on _very_ slow machines, on those most of 3D screensavers can't do.
25 April 2006
The version 4.5 of Fantastic Flame Screensaver is coming!
The program's interface becomes even more friendly. New helpful features has been added:
- Now you can adjust the delay before the screensaver's start directly from Fantastic Flame Settings window. It's not needed to open Windows' Display Properties if you want to change this time or even disable the screensaver.
- Fast switching between modes. Now it's possible to run the screensaver in full-screen mode directly from the Settings window, and open Settings window directly from full-screen mode.
6 April 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.4 has been released!
- A new feature - controlling the screensaver in full-screen mode has been introduced. You can turn fire sound and music on/off, load next flame styles and flame images and even change the fire parameters!
23 March 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.3 has been released.
- Some program refactoring.
- Now Fantastic Flame can change the fire backgrounds in the full-screen mode. A pretty fine fire effect - "burning" one image to another!
25 January 2006
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.2 available.
- Now you can choose any music for playing while the screensaver is running full-screen. Listen to your favorite music with the sound of fire in the background!
- Registration system has been changed.
9 December 2005
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 4.0 has been released.
- New general feature - ability to set custom backgrounds for the fire has been introduced. Many ready backgrounds. Bring more flames on your desktop with our fire screensaver! Please see the screenshots page.
1 October 2005
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 3.40 has been released.
- The program's interface has been slightly improved.
- Ability to take screenshots of burning desktop has been introduced. Get fire screenshots with one key press!
26 September 2005
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 3.30 has been released.
- Nice burning sound introduced! Be aware! They can think you have a big camp fire in your house and not just a fire screensaver!
18 September 2005
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 3.20 has been released.
- GREATLY improved performance! Now fire effect loads your system less than most of 3D screensavers.
8 August 2005
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 3.10 has been released.
- Fire rendering algorithm was slightly improved.
- More fantastic flame presets!
25-28 July 2005
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 3.0 has been released. More details about this program on the main page!
- Total www.LaconicSoftware.com redesign has been performed.
25 August 2003
Fantastic Flame Screensaver 1.0 has been released.
But the first step was nearly unsuccessful - the project was frozen for the next two years.