I miss startup sounds. I wonder if I can setup one on my computer…
The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive
Submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/windows_95_library_of_congress/
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vaionko@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
huaxie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t remember this at all because I changed all the system sounds. Why have chimes when you can have The Tick saying, “SPOON!”
Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I had one ‘Yeah’ from Yeah! for going through my start menu, and a different Yeah for when a program was selected. It was awesome.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Does the technology exist to do this today?
Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 months ago
adarza@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“tada.wav” as the startup sound for win3 was the best.
“hey lookie here, i actually booted up without a config.sys error… tada!!!”
Psythik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I never got to hear the “tada!” because we had a budget Sears 3.1 machine with a 386 at the time; the only sounds I heard were the beautiful pulse-width modulated screeching from the PC speaker.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 months ago
Fourth week of getting NixOS running on an aarch64 laptop here… If I could get the adsp running by the time I get to userspace, you better believe I’d play a tada.
(In all seriousness, it’s not that bad. But it does make you very aware of just how delicate the whole stack of software is.)
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I could get the adsp
Author Domain Signing Practices? Requires internet access by the looks of my quick search, so your race is between your Ethernet/wifi and the boot-up process. The only ways to fix it are to make the computer connect to the Internet faster, which is impossible for many. Most people substitute by adding a delay for getting into user space until after connection is establish
Codandchips@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s the Win XP install tune for me