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Index of Boot Sounds

• shrikant 16y ago
  What's with the white banner iframe following the page-scroll..?
  • tripa 16y ago
    It used to be an ad box. Not sure why it's currently white.
    • pdx 16y ago
      It's still an adbox with flash in it that displays properly on my Nexus1, but on my desktop PC, it's just the white box.
• castis 16y ago
  Man, the amiga one was rather epic.
  • wazoox 16y ago
    You didn't listen to the Indy, did you? The shutdown sound is equally surprising.
• tzs 16y ago
  Interesting background on the Windows 95 Startup sound early in this interview with Brian Eno: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/06/02/PK70006.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ar...
• rbanffy 16y ago
  Give me some time and I'll capture some of my machines. But it's strange to hear the Apple II beep and not hear a 5.15" floppy doing it's initial scan.
• z303 16y ago
  Some more SGI boot/shutdown sounds here http://www.spam-filter.de/irix/sgi_kultmusik?s[]=irix http://www.spam-filter.de/irix/sgi_kultmusik?s[]=irix
  • wazoox 16y ago
    This is some part of the magic that makes me still own an Indy and an Octane...
• jarin 16y ago
  I have fond memories of the Mac Plus disk scan sound and startup beep as a kid. But then one day, the computer delivery guy came by with a Mac Centris 660AV, set it up, and turned it on. The orchestral chime blew my freaking mind. I literally felt hairs standing up on my neck. edit: The Mac Plus sounded like the "Macintosh SE" file, and the Centris is marked as Quadra AV there, since they renamed the Centris line later.
• sliverstorm 16y ago
  Damn, I was expecting a searchable archive of different types of boots (hiking, combat, riding, etc) striking pavement or other surfaces. Not sure why, but that's what I thought of when I heard "boot sounds".
  • camtarn 16y ago
    Something like this? ;) http://www.hollywoodedge.com/Foley-Footsteps-Sonic-Boon-P39.aspx http://www.hollywoodedge.com/Foley-Footsteps-Sonic-Boon-P39.... Foley is a pretty interesting area for one whose ultimate aim is to be completely unnoticed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist
• mitjak 16y ago
  Windows NT is still the most epic one to me, being the inspiration of the library startup sound prank, it would seem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQDKZmhD9A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQDKZmhD9A
• wazoox 16y ago
  Also notice that "Titan" made some wonderful DVDs of amiga demos and game compilations. He's a great Amiga specialist (he wrote some well known games on the platform back in the time, too IIRC).
• thomasfl 16y ago
  When the robot Wall-E, from the movie by pixar, wakes up in the morning he makes the Macintosh PowerBook sound: http://titan08.free.fr/Boot%20Sounds/PowerMac%20PCI%20-%20Boot.wav http://titan08.free.fr/Boot%20Sounds/PowerMac%20PCI%20-%20Bo... BTW, the MacinTalk software is listed as the voice of the villain robot in the same movie.
• khookie 16y ago
  Apologies for my ignorance, but what's Indy? I'm assuming it's not related to the race of the same name.
  • rryyan 16y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy