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Post #Ao5JsepBcy7JxX7oZ6 by [email protected] |
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just watched an intro to a video game pretending to be a windows 95 pc.the crea… |
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Post #Ao5K0rnhGcMeWJLJPU by [email protected] |
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@foone which game out of curiosity? |
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Post #Ao5K4zAtn9RMY79wTg by [email protected] |
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technical info:So the bios accesses the floppy drives in two ways at boot, whic… |
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Post #Ao5K7WlVsF0zJ8UtqS by [email protected] |
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@gatewayy ProgressBar95. Watching it on a stream, not playing it myself |
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Post #Ao5KDmbftBgiAysWNU by [email protected] |
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@foone đź‘Ť |
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Post #Ao5KJfUXFvqzqXLTQO by [email protected] |
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The density check is to figure out if you have a double density or high density… |
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Post #Ao5KO5lLWS6gU1JlfU by [email protected] |
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The drive has a physical "am I on track 0" sensor which triggers and … |
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Post #Ao5KSRfK1viXZWZllQ by [email protected] |
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so that buzz-buzz happens because the BIOS is trying to determine if the drive … |
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Post #Ao5KWu6UEvROvhPMQK by [email protected] |
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@foone was the crunchy noise that you heard during the windows startup sequence… |
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Post #Ao5Kc31CWRl01gO8yO by [email protected] |
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@foone also the head position check. vvvvvv d d d vvvvvv d d d |
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Post #Ao5KfiqRT8cmcL6lrE by [email protected] |
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Noise 2: *click* or *mushy click* is the sound of the BIOS checking a floppy dr… |
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Post #Ao5KljWTrRHsSRdb1s by [email protected] |
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So the click is a check for a disk: The BIOS is trying to boot off a disk if on… |
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Post #Ao5KsE5T8W8UzN6DNQ by [email protected] |
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The floppy noises can't happen later. They happen when the system is trying… |
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Post #Ao5KumI0wa3He2BSro by [email protected] |
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this is because if the system is already loading windows 95, it by definition i… |
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Post #Ao5KxYzuorMtI02xAu by [email protected] |
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@foone These are some of the reasons I would want to actually write a BIOS that… |
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Post #Ao5L2ZWaHthGN5iQ8O by [email protected] |
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There's a large variation in the number of sounds you can get, actually. Di… |
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Post #Ao5LPwKHg5pPkY6YdM by [email protected] |
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@foone There's a thukita-thukita too, or was that only ][GS et al? |
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Post #Ao5LPwS5D64C8jkmn2 by [email protected] |
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@Phyxis Apple II drives did the thukita-thukita: It's because they had no t… |
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Post #Ao5LSUbnBhiKebVlrM by [email protected] |
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It's not directly relevant to my topic of "what do windows 95 machines… |
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Post #Ao5LWnUav5bSNbCID2 by [email protected] |
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Apple II was common in schools for over a decade, and it had a very distinctive… |
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Post #Ao5LgJL5sqZTkzI2JU by [email protected] |
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And this is because the Drive II doesn't have a track-zero sensor, but it s… |
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Post #Ao5LlrKGwuJSc3YEnA by [email protected] |
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this lowered the price of the Drive II by a bit, but it did make it much louder… |
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Post #Ao5Lx07ObFap4DqD9k by [email protected] |
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It's a very memorable sound, especially because of computer labs where peop… |
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Post #Ao5M5Gte6QPTQ8LyRk by [email protected] |
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But that was always an Apple II thing. PCs have always (I believe? Please prove… |
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Post #Ao5MBdWastflL1bdr6 by [email protected] |
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some older-than-would-run-windows-95 computers did click at power on (for the m… |
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Post #Ao5MRWSkuMs84MNz7o by [email protected] |
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@foone I love the sound of the Disk ][. The Unidisk not so much. |
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Post #Ao5MUm0NZwCN8qfAwK by [email protected] |
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@foone that’s the sound I was thinking of |
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Post #Ao5N3qMXMzfwn7kZIu by [email protected] |
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@foone I had wondered what that buzz-buzz was for years. A double seek. That ma… |
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Post #Ao5NbCkp8fs7nJ1AGm by [email protected] |
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@foone we need to go back to the 5150's Tandon drive noisesIf it was at tra… |
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Post #Ao5NeHYLkmNnXveOqO by [email protected] |
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@foone I think all of the BIOSes I had which supported HD floppies just made it… |
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Post #Ao5NeHgVGSu9xDSuYK by [email protected] |
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@fluffy I think it's more common on brand name computers, like packard bell… |
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Post #Ao5O6E7g6HlZ13V4N6 by [email protected] |
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@foone I knew most of these things but it's still been delightful to read y… |
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Post #Ao5PYuCLMJzZZYvBAm by [email protected] |
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@foone It’s annoying that the only currently still available (produced?) usb … |
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Post #Ao5PvsdtJE8xPMlHoO by [email protected] |
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@foone Now I wanna know if anyone has simulated the audible effect of an Amiga … |
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Post #Ao5QdIqjkNxT8lTYZs by [email protected] |
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@foone I wonder if you would have been able to boot Windows 95 from an LS-120 f… |
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Post #Ao5QkF0sPRZFGjWj56 by [email protected] |
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@foone See also: OPEN 1,8,15,"N0:FLOPPY,01":CLOSE 1 |
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Post #Ao5Sm5RDBGRe3jqvJo by [email protected] |
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@foone unless you have a boot sector virus on your hard drive that is trying to… |
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Post #Ao5UXXIfVVjY2M2v8S by [email protected] |
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@foone but did they include the sound of me crumbling to dust? |
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Post #Ao5UiXyPLQLzJIossa by [email protected] |
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@foone the best floppy noise |
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Post #Ao5WYTVbHycETZfchs by [email protected] |
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@foone I had a machine with some wacky-ass BIOS that was still ticking when I p… |
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Post #Ao5bG8O3a0BRWiDQzw by [email protected] |
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@foone Track0 is one of the pins on the cable, presumably it's actually req… |
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Post #Ao5d6ADC8kMiCNVad6 by [email protected] |
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@foone The BIOS did that recalibrate in POST from the very beginning when the o… |
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Post #Ao5g5hkEHQffluQtdY by [email protected] |
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@jamesh good question! it connects as a hard drive, not a floppy drive, so mayb… |
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Post #Ao65Ouikkz6GNAzzDE by [email protected] |
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@foone I still remember the sound our 286 made when it was booting up. First th… |
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Post #Ao8axx9FD4fkvoUubQ by [email protected] |
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@foone I'm pretty sure a track 0 switch was just always part of the PC flop… |
