The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/windows_95_library_of_congress/

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adarza@lemmy.ca · 59 pts · 1y (3 replies)

"tada.wav" as the startup sound for win3 was the best.

"hey lookie here, i actually booted up without a config.sys error.... tada!!!!"

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.)

JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

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

Psythik@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

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.

huaxie@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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!"

Albbi@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Does the technology exist to do this today?

Albbi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

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.

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

So whimsical.

Codandchips@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
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vaionko@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

I miss startup sounds. I wonder if I can setup one on my computer...