Heh I know. Haven't they had the same sound since beige Macs? Even before the G3 they made this Aaah sound. It's the longest running sound probably. A Surround Sound Chime would be sweet.
Or you could try the volume on your speaker. I know what you mean though, when I'm at home I have my PowerBook and Blue G3 plugged into a 400 watt amp. Arr arr arr! </Home Improvement>
Just for everyone's general knowledge... the inital macintosh start-up chime is in B flat and is meant to be like an orchestra warming up (IIRC). It draws a nice correlation between the warming up of an orchestra and of a computer.
Speaking of awesome startup sounds, the PowerMac 6500 rocked (and possibly some others like it.) Had like an internal subwoofer but no midranges, and if you turned the speakers off on the monitor/turned the sound all the way up, all you got was crappy bass and it sounded evil as hell.
Also, on Macs with old world ROMs, you could trip the various crash tones. Right after powering on 680x0s, you could press command and power at the same time to get this freaky little chime. On PPCs, you could do the same thing and get the chime, and if you waited a little longer the sound of a car wreck and the little "ba-doom chh!" that drummers do after jokes. Doesn't work on USB equipped Macs (with new world ROMs.) In addition, if you waited for a little longer you could press command and power and freeze the machine, making the Happy Mac a sweet white on black Sad Mac
I always thought that PPC crash Sad Mac sounded like a car crash, not joke drums. Hmm.
There was this one sound, some AV Mac maybe the Quadra 840 AV or 950 that owned. I have all the start up sounds, but it didn't say which they were. Do new Macs even make a sound when they get Sad Macs? Or the Do Not Enter sign? I didn't even know that picture had changed until I read today's MacAddict. I thought the code was useful under the Sad Mac to programmers, I think black and blue even interprets it. They should bring back the oldskool Happy/Sad Mac in 128x128 glory!
The 6100/7100/8100 had a car crash as the death chime, and the rest of the PPC Macs with death chimes sound like breaking glass.
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Hmmm, I cant recall my 6100 having a car crash death chime.
Then again, in 6 years of service, I only had one death chime screen.
I still remember why.
System 7.5 had just come out and our university labs had 7.5. So, I started taking MacOS System Control Panels I thought were cool to have on my System 7.1. (yes, I was definetly a newbie back then... but heck, no one else had a Mac and I was a curious little monkey, so...)
I put a few 7.5 control panels in my 7.1 control panels folder, rebooted, and WHAM, got a Death screen. I was scared sh!tless. I remember getting an adrenaline rush from hell thinking I had broken it forever (and obviously, I had to hack around with the poor thing towards the end of paper due dates).
somehow I knew that you could press shift at startup and disable all extensions and control panels. I did that or I booted from my original system CD... or maybe even booted off an emergency Floppy (my lord... I had forgotten all about floppies;.. hehe, to imagine I could put MacOS on a floppy.. sigh...)
Anyway... back to 2003 where a floppy isnt even supported by the OS. Or is it? Does anyone know? Has anyone even TRIED???? I havent used a floppy in over 4 years
My Silicon Graphics makes this godawful jazz hit every time it starts up, I hope Apple keeps it simple.
You must be running an Indy. Cute little machines I remember reading an issue of Macworld where they reviewed it against the high end mac of the day running Photoshop and Illustrator.
Actually, I realize a lot of other SGI boxes made similar startup and shutdown sounds. I personally liked the one from the Onyx I used to own: Sounded like a jet powering up
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Originally posted by chu_bakka
Is it determined by the OS? And could it possibly be different than the G4?
No, it is hard coded into the ROM. It could possibly be different.
"AHHHHHHHHH"
Originally posted by chu_bakka
It should sound like a gigantic gospel choir....
"AHHHHHHHHH"
hahaha
My 8500 use to shake the room whenever I forgot to turn down my speaker volume before restarting.
Originally posted by Tuttle
I really hope there is some way of disabling it.
My 8500 use to shake the room whenever I forgot to turn down my speaker volume before restarting.
Maybe an AppleScript to mute the volume on shutdown and unmute at startup?
A@ron
Also, on Macs with old world ROMs, you could trip the various crash tones. Right after powering on 680x0s, you could press command and power at the same time to get this freaky little chime. On PPCs, you could do the same thing and get the chime, and if you waited a little longer the sound of a car wreck and the little "ba-doom chh!" that drummers do after jokes. Doesn't work on USB equipped Macs (with new world ROMs.) In addition, if you waited for a little longer you could press command and power and freeze the machine, making the Happy Mac a sweet white on black Sad Mac
There was this one sound, some AV Mac maybe the Quadra 840 AV or 950 that owned. I have all the start up sounds, but it didn't say which they were. Do new Macs even make a sound when they get Sad Macs? Or the Do Not Enter sign? I didn't even know that picture had changed until I read today's MacAddict. I thought the code was useful under the Sad Mac to programmers, I think black and blue even interprets it. They should bring back the oldskool Happy/Sad Mac in 128x128 glory!
Originally posted by Aquatic
A Surround Sound Chime would be sweet.
Oooh!
Where it kind of swirls around the room, before culminating on the G5 itself!
To hear it, do a search for Mactracker at Versiontracker
Originally posted by Aquatic
Heh I know. Haven't they had the same sound since beige Macs? Even before the G3 they made this Aaah sound. It's the longest running sound probably.
It dates back to August 1995.
Originally posted by Aquatic
I always thought that PPC crash Sad Mac sounded like a car crash, not joke drums. Hmm.
The 6100/7100/8100 had a car crash as the death chime, and the rest of the PPC Macs with death chimes sound like breaking glass.
The 60K Macs like the Quadras have joke drums.
Do new Macs even make a sound when they get Sad Macs?
No, it stopped with the NewWorld machines.
Originally posted by JLL
The 6100/7100/8100 had a car crash as the death chime, and the rest of the PPC Macs with death chimes sound like breaking glass.
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Hmmm, I cant recall my 6100 having a car crash death chime.
Then again, in 6 years of service, I only had one death chime screen.
I still remember why.
System 7.5 had just come out and our university labs had 7.5. So, I started taking MacOS System Control Panels I thought were cool to have on my System 7.1. (yes, I was definetly a newbie back then... but heck, no one else had a Mac and I was a curious little monkey, so...)
I put a few 7.5 control panels in my 7.1 control panels folder, rebooted, and WHAM, got a Death screen. I was scared sh!tless. I remember getting an adrenaline rush from hell thinking I had broken it forever (and obviously, I had to hack around with the poor thing towards the end of paper due dates).
somehow I knew that you could press shift at startup and disable all extensions and control panels. I did that or I booted from my original system CD... or maybe even booted off an emergency Floppy (my lord... I had forgotten all about floppies;.. hehe, to imagine I could put MacOS on a floppy.. sigh...)
Anyway... back to 2003 where a floppy isnt even supported by the OS. Or is it? Does anyone know? Has anyone even TRIED???? I havent used a floppy in over 4 years
Originally posted by mook
My Silicon Graphics makes this godawful jazz hit every time it starts up, I hope Apple keeps it simple.
You must be running an Indy. Cute little machines
Actually, I realize a lot of other SGI boxes made similar startup and shutdown sounds. I personally liked the one from the Onyx I used to own: Sounded like a jet powering up
Originally posted by Tuttle
I really hope there is some way of disabling it.
My 8500 use to shake the room whenever I forgot to turn down my speaker volume before restarting.
You can always hold mute key when powering on your system...
Probably not the solution you were looking for but still something.