[NTLK] Newton 2100 startup sound

[Victor Rehorst]

For some reason, this question and its replies piqued my interest and 
put me down a rabbit hole.  (The good kind, the kind that's fun to explore)

My data manipulation side said to me "that should be easy!  the sounds 
are in the ROM somewhere, just extract them!"

tl;dr:  it looks easy but it's not that easy but I got an extremely 
clean copy nevertheless.

Most (all?) the sounds in the OS 2.x ROM have, from NewtonScript, magic 
pointers assigned to them.  There is a little app I found on UNNA called 
ROMSND2 that walks all of the magic pointers, finds the ones with the 
correct class, and lets you play them.  Seems easy to find.  The startup 
sound seems to be at magic pointer @16 ... and @289?  I wanted to use 
ViewFrame to extract the raw data through NTK Inspector, or maybe 
through Sloup, but I can't get Einstein and its not-quite-working 
pseudo-serial port to do anything.  My actual 2100 is put away.

The sounds themselves (most? all?) are not simple uncompressed sound 
samples.  They use a NewtonOS sound codec called "TDTMFCodec" which is 
sort of like QuickDraw, but for sounds?  I don't know.  The Newton 
Research project has an implementation of this codec.

I also ran into the fact that I haven't been able to build Einstein on 
Linux (Fedora Linux 27 on x86) in a while.  So first I fixed that, and 
then I realized that sound wasn't working, so now I'm working on fixing 
that.  I have sound output but the PortAudio stuff is b0rked and sound 
is very very choppy.  I want to fix that though.

On the other hand, I have a Mac Mini and xCode, and Einstein runs great 
there, and Audio Hijack exists, so .... here you go ... recorded 
straight out of the Emulator and trimmed.

https://ritsuko.chuma.org/Newton_2.0_startup_sound.wav

On 25/03/18 10:58 AM, "Piotrowski Paweł (Newton)" wrote:
> Hi Newtons,
>
> I’m looking for 2100 startup sound. I’ve tried to find something on Google and UNNA, but I only found 1x0 sounds. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Pawel
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