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From: russ@oakhill.UUCP (Russell Schwausch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II Sound Mover
Message-ID: <968@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 10:38:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.968
Posted: Wed Aug 19 10:38:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 01:58:41 EDT
References: <966@oakhill.UUCP> <1484@apple.UUCP>
Reply-To: russ@oakhill.UUCP (Russell Schwausch)
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Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Keywords: Can Too!
Summary: MacII beep init on Mac Plus

In article <1484@apple.UUCP> batman@apple.UUCP (Ken Laws) writes:
>In article 5168, Russell Schwausch writes...
>	"I'm interested in replacing the beep sound
>	on my Mac Plus with one of the
>	Mac II sounds, specifically the "boing" sound.
>	Is this possible?"
>
>Oh, if only it were. The Mac II sound manager hasn't been ported to the
>Plus or SE yet. Rumor has it that they will sometime next year (it's very
>complex compared to the managers they did port in the last system).
>
>To summarize: no, you can't use an snd as your alert sound on a Mac Plus.
>
>-Ken Laws

I am not up on snd resources and Mac II sound managers. HOWEVER, another
net reader was kind enough to send me a Mac II beepinit that replaces the
obnoxious elevator gong on my Mac Plus when I put the file in my system folder
and reboot. The resulting sound is not quite like the "boing" on a Mac II but
I suspect the cause to be the difference in processor speeds. The sound I get
resembles a harpsicord note toward the lower end of the scale. Anyway, it is
much more pleasant than the original equipment, especially in an office
environment.

I don't know what magic was performed to generate this beepinit but it does
what I wanted. I am also led to believe that I can use resedit to replace the
init resource in this file with other sounds. I haven't tried this yet but I
will post results when I get around to it. Please don't send me any Round
TO-ITs. The exchange ratio for foreign currency to Round TO-ITs coined by my
wife makes yours worth about as much as a peso compared to a dollar! And she
deserves the high rate of exchange for tolerating me and my MacAddiction.

I will let my benefactor decide if he wants to reveal his identity and the
process by which he created the MacII beepinit. I, for one, would like to
know how he did it. He might also be willing to post the beepinit to the net.
It is really short so the size is no problem for comp.sys.mac.

Excuse me. I seem to be out of breath. Just didn't want to mislead anyone or
have anyone misled by the other posting.

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