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Complete with the loud BING as the startup sound?
by strangecasts 11y ago
Complete with the loud BING as the startup sound?
- boondaburrah 11y agoYou bet. Also a 1-bit dithered screen mode and rounded screen corners.
- devindotcom 11y agonot sure why you were getting downvoted, i would love a monochrome rounded display.
- duskwuff 11y agoNot to burst your bubble, but the sampled startup sounds didn't come until after the SE. The SE just went BEEEEEEEEEP.
- marssaxman 11y agoNot sure what process generated that tone, but it really was a bell-like BINNNNGGGG and not a flat PC buzzer-like BEEP. At least, that's the sound I remember from the 512K and the Plus - I never had an SE myself, so I am assuming it used the same sound as the original models.
- boondaburrah 11y agoYeah but the beep had an envelope to it. There was definitely a strong attack followed by a less-than-square wave rather than a uniform beep. Though whether that was part of the sample (which the mac SE definitely could've played) or an artifact of some analogue circuitry I don't know.
- duskwuff 11y agoIt was a software thing. Here's the story of how it came to be: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Boot_Beep.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Boot_Beep.txt