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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Windows 95 boot sound added to Library of Congress
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: Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too
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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!!!”

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      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.)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86CLkoDcyAc

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      So whimsical.

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    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!”

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    I guess Microsoft really changed the world.

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