Amiga 500 sound does not work???

[jjans]

There is no default boot-up sound.  The "SAY" program on your workbench (or extras?) disk will speak a word that you type in, though.  Also, I think there is a default error beep.  

The say command can be run from the Workbench disk (both 1.3 and 2.04). It is found in the Utilities Drawer. Just type a word or sentence and hit return from the bottom window, and the phonetic spelling is displayed in the top window. BTW to quit hit Ctl-C, then hit return.

The default error beep is not an actual audible sound, as from what I understand, there is not an onboard hardware speaker like the PC's. From what I remember reading from the Autodocs ( I could be wrong here), the error beep is simulated by a flash of the screen.

[jjans]

This consist (more or less) of the Horn Motif from Richard Wagner's "Siegfried", the third part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", transposed four half-tones down. The diagnostic routines of the boot ROM of the A1000 were written by a man called Siegfried Bleher.

(found in "The Amiga Guru Book")

Noster

Wow! That is an amazing fact. Thanks for that. You just gave me a reason to unpack my old A1000 and fire her up and give it a closer listen. I had forgotten about that little chime.  :-o

[jjans]

RedWarrior wrote:
ok- can you make an mp3 of it for us to listen to??  

Well I just fired the old girl up, but not a peep out of her during the boot. The rest of the machine is working fine however. I tried out 'Say' and recieved normal response from the sound.

I am not even sure now if it ever did chime during bootup now that I think of it? It has been so long now...

Did all revisions of the A1000 chime on bootup, or did someone just pull my leg!!! :lol:

[jjans]

Ahh yes, I was busy, but just got back to the A1000 and checked the connections, and cranked the volume to the max. Sure enough, The chirp is there again! It seems to be very low in volume, and with the noise of the hard drives on the A590 beside it, I could not hear it before. With age comes confusion, memory loss and now hearing I guess.

Relearn something old every day!

[jjans]

jjans wrote:

RedWarrior wrote:
ok- can you make an mp3 of it for us to listen to??  

I have a wav sample of the A1000 boot chime now if anyone still wants it.
I made it the default Windows start sound in my Windows XP sound scheme for old times sake...