Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Today, i decided to giving my basilisk II a custom boot chime. Well, i still cannot do that because when i booted it up, there is no boot chime played. Btw its macintosh LC III boot chime that i downloaded from a video cuz i have no real hardware
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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You do not tell how you tried.

You can use any sound in .wav format to play as startup sound when the file is (re)named "Startup.wav" and is placed in the same folder as BasiliskII application itself.
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Ronald P. Regensburg wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:50 am You do not tell how you tried.

You can use any sound in .wav format to play as startup sound when the file is (re)named "Startup.wav" and is placed in the same folder as BasiliskII application itself.
Weeelll, the sound doesnt play out
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Did you make sure the file is named "Startup.wav" and is it placed in the same folder as SheepShaver.exe?
Does the sound file play if you double-click the file?
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Ronald P. Regensburg wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:24 am Did you make sure the file is named "Startup.wav" and is it placed in the same folder as SheepShaver.exe?
Does the sound file play if you double-click the file?
i use BII
and yes it is
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Yes, sorry. It should work the same way in BasiliskII.
I have no idea why it does not work for you.
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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You didn't say what the host system is (macOS, Windows, Linux).

Here, the startup.wav sound works correctly under macOS and Windows, but I haven't tested under Linux.

You might want to rename some other known-good .wav file as startup.wav and try it, to see if your file is somehow causing the problem.
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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Last time I tried using the "Startup.wav" for a BII chime on linux it did not work.
So I did a bash script that launch BII and play a chime sound.
You can use the play command from the sox package :

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sudo apt install sox
then use something like this :

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#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
BasiliskII &
sleep 0.5
play /home/galgot/macemu/sounds/si.aiff
the play command should of course point to your chime sound file.
If you goooogle "Macintosh startup sound", you will find a lot, for many Mac models.
like here :
https://www.soundboard.com/sb/Computer2
make the script executable, and try.
Tweak the delay between the actual BII startup and the sound play with the sleep command, depending on your system.
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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galgot wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:10 am Last time I tried using the "Startup.wav" for a BII chime on linux it did not work.
So I did a bash script that launch BII and play a chime sound.
You can use the play command from the sox package :

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sudo apt install sox
then use something like this :

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#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
BasiliskII &
sleep 0.5
play /home/galgot/macemu/sounds/si.aiff
the play command should of course point to your chime sound file.
If you goooogle "Macintosh startup sound", you will find a lot, for many Mac models.
like here :
https://www.soundboard.com/sb/Computer2
make the script executable, and try.
Tweak the delay between the actual BII startup and the sound play with the sleep command, depending on your system.
i use windows guest
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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psh wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:55 am
galgot wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:10 am Last time I tried using the "Startup.wav" for a BII chime on linux it did not work.
...
i use windows guest
Ah sorry then, can't help.
But thanks, at least we know what your guest system is now, and that "Startup.wav" doesn't work either :lol:
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Re: Custom Boot Chime on Basilisk II

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It should work on Windows. It works for everyone else on both macOS and Windows.

Make sure you use a BasiliskII build that supports this feature. All recent (May 2021 and later) builds posted here support the startup sound.
Get a suitable startup sound file.
If it is not a .wav file, convert it to wav format.
Make sure the file is named "startup.wav".
Place the file in the same folder as BasiliskII.exe
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