DJ Nick's AmigaOS boot sound

[Karlos]

I thought it was a cool little sound... until it said "Welcome to Amiga System", then it just became way too cheesy for me to use for real...

I have to say, I agree. The sound is fine, but the speech ruins it. There are reasons why speech isn't generally used in startup sounds. Language issues aside, it just sounds, well, cheesy.

[Karlos]

What .wav format is this? Strange that it won't play on windows system...

RIFF WAV, as a container, is an abortion.

[Karlos]

Isn't RIFF WAV just a little endian IFF? Less an abortion and more of a miscarriage?

No, really, it's far worse than that. Trivial examples are just that - an IFF hunk format with little endian data, but it can get a lot worse.

I once saw some example windows source for dealing with RIFF with all the really nasty hunks they'd kludged in for different things over the years and it was amongst the worst spaghetti code I have ever seen. Never in my life have I seen so many goto statements in C code, and I've seen a lot of generated C.

I still have the odd nightmare about it now.

[Karlos]

And wait, aos4 can't play stereo sounds?

The default sound.datatype can't or doesn't, it seems. Had this problem on 3.x too, which is why I always replaced it with the one from aminet. It showed you the waveform in multiview too, which was nice.