I still have that no bloat mindset. I originally planned to use OpenAL EFX hookups for all the case sounds but ended up hacking up my own echo/reverb effects.Enjay wrote:Sometimes I miss those simpler days when programmes fitted into a few KB of disc space and the oprating system consisted mostly of a directory full of small com and exe files and it wasn't a massive behemoth full of bloat and hidden settings up the wazoo so that I am never fully confident (despite my best efforts) that I know what my machine is doing in the background.
though the samples i used were recorded from a very very noisy take and it's a miracle it sounds as good as it currently is. I haven't tried with cleaner drive samples
Tackling those larger floppy drives shouldn't be that far off... (pretty much the same mechanism, just bigger) and i'm thinking about the same for CDs (which should be easier, just two spin samples maybe, and perhaps the horrible fear-inducing noise of a still-spinning cd ejecting from the tray). I am uncertain if i'll do iomega zip drive sounds (as the nowadays-relatively-obscure zip drive is emulated)