Hulstar Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Hey all, My Macbook is sad. It's sad because it's confused older brother the Hackintosh is feeling a little blue. Sure it can play nice songs on iTunes, play with all those adorable little PowerPC apps with some help from it's friend Rosetta and even show screensavers in all their Quartz accelerated glory, but it's missing a little something. A tiny little something that my Macbook does every day and you can almost hear how happy it is when it does it that it makes you want to sceam. Now i've finally got 10.4.8 working (sorry to irk those of you who haven't, but i struggled for about a month sorting it out so I feel your pain and thank you to those who made this wonder possible), i'm so happy with it's titan-ey goodness that I could cry, that I have decidied there is one more step needed to make my sad Hackintosh feel like a real mac, and not just one of these pinnochio macs, caught somewhere in the crossfire (ATI - no pun intended) but enough of this chat. The thing my little Hackintosh wants is a something to make it go 'Daaaahh' when I switch it on. It's not a lot. It's not like native OSX NVIDIA nForce4 SATA drivers or anything, but it's a start. After all, how can you deprive this little darling's right to sing it's happiness when it sees that darwin bootloader and realises it doesn't have to load Windows anymore! So I put it out there, for some crazy genius to do something about this. To rise to the challenge for all us sad hackintosh users and tell me, heck, tell the world how to let our little hackies go 'Daaahh' and sing out their little hearts (/DSPs) for all the joy they have. Good Luck, Hulstar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 its been thought of before. just be glad someone around here remembers. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=122419 *Remember, Try this at your own risk, we arent responsible for what happens* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/#findComment-293192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulstar Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Thanks DiaboliK, it's an interesting read, but I wasn't thinking about going down the BIOS route, but maybe something a easier to implement, such as an app which plays the sound when you boot into OSX, akin to how the windows startup sound plays (gosh! did he just say that?) which could be done in software? Or tied to the initialization of the sound driver by OSX? Has anyone thought of that? It would be less risky to the user's BIOS and one could use any startup noise they wanted, or use one of the many mac startup noises that they like, as there have been a few variations. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/#findComment-293500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulstar Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Ok, got it working... well, that I wanted anyway, not quite the 'mac' startup noise but a startup noise of sorts. Basically it involved downloading the apple sound, in WAV format. Then downloading PlayNow, Then setting the apple.wav (the chime sound file) to play with PlayNow Then Putting it in to 'Open at login' And now my hackintosh says 'Daaahhh' when I turn it on! Magic! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/#findComment-295552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeewiff Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Hulstar can u provide a d/l link to this program? Playnow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/#findComment-295622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hulstar Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Hey Skeewiff, The app is called 'PlaySound', not playnow, sorry, my mistake! You can get it at: http://microcosmsoftware.com/playsound/ Hope it works for you too! Hulstar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/#findComment-295820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeewiff Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Thanx I couldn´t find playnow I´m gonna check your tip. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41046-the-final-frontier-will-it-be-you-who-takes-us-there/#findComment-295878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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