Index of Boot Sounds

[_b8r0]

http://titan08.free.fr/Boot%20Sounds/

[sliverstorm]

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 → sliverstorm]

Something like this? ;)

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

[tzs]

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/ar...

[rbanffy]

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.

[castis]

Man, the amiga one was rather epic.

[wazoox → castis]

You didn't listen to the Indy, did you? The shutdown sound is equally surprising.

[z303]

Some more SGI boot/shutdown sounds here http://www.spam-filter.de/irix/sgi_kultmusik?s[]=irix

[wazoox → z303]

This is some part of the magic that makes me still own an Indy and an Octane...

[jarin]

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.

[thomasfl]

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-%20Bo...

BTW, the MacinTalk software is listed as the voice of the villain robot in the same movie.

[khookie]

Apologies for my ignorance, but what's Indy? I'm assuming it's not related to the race of the same name.

[rryyan → khookie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy

[wazoox]

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).

[shrikant]

What's with the white banner iframe following the page-scroll..?

[tripa → shrikant]

It used to be an ad box. Not sure why it's currently white.

[pdx → tripa]

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.

[mitjak]

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