bigjohnjr Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 I do not own a mac, I showed my osx86 to a person who does and he was very impressed it worked to well. The question he asked me was were was the startup chime, it seems that mac play a little song when booting up. Something like windows does. Is there a way to get that sound as a wave file and have osx play it when it boots up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
neztik Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Yeah it would be cool to have the chime with OSX starts up on my hackintosh. I always get that warm fuzzy feeling when my iMac Core Dou startus up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 The famous Mac startup sound was recorded by a sound engineer called Jim Reekes, and was created on a Korg Wavestation, according to a bunch of articles on the web. If you want a ready-made mp3, I've put one here. Someone made a jingle out of all the Mac sounds and you can get that here - a 60k wav file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neztik Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Thanks. I grabbed it. To bad there is no way to play that before the gui starts, like at the grey screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohnjr Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 If I convert it to a wave file, is there a way I can get it played from the apple.boot.plist file? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohnjr Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 Is there a way to get this to play during startup? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 I know that on PPC Macs the startup chime was located on the EEPROM, and played by OpenFirmware upon powering up. I'd guess that EFI does something similar, which is why Apple Mactels still make that ohh-so-cool chime. I'm not sure how you'd go about getting it to chime on boot. Besides, even if you *could* get it to chime, It would most likely be a delayed chime, and happen after loading past the Darwin bootloader and Kexts. It probably wouldn't be as "authentic" as you'd like it to be. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohnjr Posted March 9, 2006 Author Share Posted March 9, 2006 I did not know that. I thought it was like windows, a sound file on the hard drive. Thanks for the info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stelriah Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 just get a USB device that intercept your audio cable that plays an audio file the moment it turns on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11373-startup-chime/#findComment-71846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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