commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons) (02/20/91)
Another really fun and easy way to change your beeps sounds is with Polly MacBeep, a sound utility available for $10 from Delta Tao Software, 760 Harvard Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087. Phone: (408)730-9336. (Delta Tao also published ColorMacCheese, Spaceward Ho!, and Strategic Conquest 3.0). Polly MacBeep comes with an entire disk of sounds and an application that allows you to add/delete more. When you put a sound in the Polly MacBeep sound file, you give it a percentage weight. Every time your machine is supposed to beep, Polly MacBeep randomly picks a sound to play from the list it has - based on the percentages you gave. In other words, rather than just playing one sound every time, it will play any number of sounds. It's a lot of fun and not very bothersome- I have the regular system beep weighted about 80%, so most of the time my machine acts normally, and then, every once in a while, it surprises me. And at $10, who can go wrong? -- Peter Commons commons@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Department, Stanford University