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Re: PC Speaker To Eleven

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Post by Mister_Snuggles »

glhaynes wrote: post #34
Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I recall, if you muted the sound before shutting down it would stay muted and not play the startup sound. My Mac experience starts at the white iBook G3 running OSX 10.2 though, so it could be that this behaviour is a new thing. I now have a 13" TouchBar MacBook Pro and it makes a sound when I plug the charger in no matter what I do to the volume settings. When I have it muted and open I can actually see it unmute…

Just fyi: I believe (but haven't gotten to try it myself) that this command will turn off the power chime when you plug in a USB-C charger. defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool false;killall PowerChime

I haven't tried this yet, but based on some quick searching it might need some tweaks[0]. This is a pretty easy change to make, so I'll try it out later.

[0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282752/turning-pow...

Re: PC Speaker To Eleven

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Post by DougN7 »

What always amazes me is this could have been done back in the day if someone had had the vision and belief that it was possible. Understandable that they didn’t because it’s so far beyond the then current level of expectation.

So that makes me wonder what could be done with what we have now if we only had the vision and belief that it was possible? What will someone demo if 50 years on an “ancient” Windows 10 PC or iPad?

Re: PC Speaker To Eleven

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Post by Zibri »

userbinator wrote: post #8

The most amazing thing I've heard done with a PC speaker is in the last part of this equally amazing demo (starts at 6:37 --- the parts before have more "normal" beeper music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y Explanation here: https://www.reenigne.org/blog/8088-pc-speaker-mod-player-how...

I completely agree with you! The tune at 6:30 is the best I heard on PC Speaker!

Re: PC Speaker To Eleven

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Post by grkvlt »

DougN7 wrote: post #52

What always amazes me is this could have been done back in the day if someone had had the vision and belief that it was possible. Understandable that they didn’t because it’s so far beyond the then current level of expectation. So that makes me wonder what could be done with what we have now if we only had the vision and belief that it was possible? What will someone demo if 50 years on an “ancient” Windows 10 PC or…

I'm not 100% sure that's true - for example, today we have hugely improved development environments, IDEs, source control, collaboration tools, simulators, debuggers, documentation (particularly in terms of easily available and instant access to low level details and also searchability) and so on, which (probably?) make it easier to produce code, and perform tasks that would have been impossible or intractable back then...

Re: PC Speaker To Eleven

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Post by DougN7 »

grkvlt wrote: post #54
DougN7 wrote: post #52

What always amazes me is this could have been done back in the day if someone had had the vision and belief that it was possible. Understandable that they didn’t because it’s so far beyond the then current level of expectation. So that makes me wonder what could be done with what we have now if we only had the vision and belief that it was possible? What will someone demo if 50 years on an “ancient” Windows 10 PC or…

I'm not 100% sure that's true - for example, today we have hugely improved development environments, IDEs, source control, collaboration tools, simulators, debuggers, documentation (particularly in terms of easily available and instant access to low level details and also searchability) and so on, which (probably?) make it easier to produce code, and perform tasks that would have been impossible or intractable back t…

Yes, the environment definitely makes it easier and more feasible.

Still, what if we have Star Trek-like transporter building blocks today but just can’t see it yet?

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