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    I agree that this is a very interesting topic. For quite some time, I thought I was the only person on the planet that appreciated and actually oddly "enjoyed" the sound of an Atari's SIO. It was strangely comforting that your 8-bit was firing up normally when the SIO sounded "right." I was always unnerved around friend's C64's since they always had this slow, silent IO. You could never tell what was happening with a C64 while it was doing any IO. Bad sector? Still loading? It was just a sit and wait game. With the A8's, your ears told you immediately if loads/writes were progressing as they should.

     

    I also thought I was the only one who enjoyed an 800's keyclicks. I suppose it had to be a part of the original OS for the 400's flat keyboard and was a part of every A8 from that point forward. I've always appreciated that snick snick sound. It makes me feel like I'm typing REALLY FAST even though I'm probably not.

     

    Absolutely - I love all the sounds of the A8's. And yes, even that lovely mechanical keyboard. The nice snick snick / chunk chunk sound it made. One day I may get a mechanical keyboard for my modern PC, but they are a bit pricey! My dream would be to find a way to convert an A8 keyboard to a USB input so I could use it with a modern PC, but that's a bit beyond me I'm afraid.

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    Hahaha you guys are the best, this is an awesome thread!!! Thanks for more excellent boot sounds.

     

    I love the compiled boot MP3!! Yess! So cool!

     

    I saw you mentioned tape-loading drives... I was talking to my Uncle about all this, and he said it would be neat to hear a 1040 tape drive loading. So maybe kr0tki (as you mentioned) has one of those and we could get the sound for that too!!

     

    He also mentioned he liked the "1040/Percom disk boot" - is that the same as the 1050 sound, or different? (my knowledge of Atari's & disk drives doesn't extend this far)

  8. Posted · Edited by FatMagic

    @Stargunner

    You are correct after I listened to it. It isn't the sound I was looking for, but close. I'm still saving the one @Hiassoft made for me. I've put it on my phone :P

     

    If anyone else can get the exact sound I'm looking (see Video in first post) that would be AWESOME :) Thats the sound I remember from my childhood rocking out to the Atari 800 :)

  10. Posted · Edited by FatMagic

    Hello!

     

    AtariAge newbie here.

     

    I was curious if anyone had a good quality recording (no background noise) of the Atari Booting/Beep sound? Many people found it annoying, but I find it nostalgic from my childhood days loading game after game on my Atari 800. An example of the sound I'm talking about can be found in this video -->

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOLWRVbZRI

    -- jump to around 17 seconds and you'll hear the sound. I love that boot sound! All the blips, sometimes the long farting type noises LOL - awesome.

     

    Anyone have this, or can they get it in a nice format? I don't care how long the sound is. It can be 1 minute of booting. I love it!

     

    Just curious, thanks :)

     

    -FM

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