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The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive
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It's the Win XP install tune for me
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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"tada.wav" as the startup sound for win3 was the best.
"hey lookie here, i actually booted up without a config.sys error.... tada!!!!"
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.)
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
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.
Edit: At least I had a Turbo button, though.
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!"
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.
Does the technology exist to do this today?
Probably, but I find user interfaces now don't really have you go hunting through multiple dropdown menus, so it doesn't hit the same.
I miss startup sounds. I wonder if I can setup one on my computer...