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Phone alarm and other sounds

Y'know, other stuff, Sinclair related.
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Phone alarm and other sounds

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We have 'Phone wallpapers/screensavers' thread. So why not one of pleasant mobile phone alarm sounds to gently wake me up in the morning?

Like most android users, I am woken up in the morning to the default 'Helium' alarm. I'd much rather be put into a great mood, for the whole day, with the smooth tones of a spectrum based (or spectrum inspired) theme.

I hope to get your brain-cogs energised on this idea, Go crazy! :dance
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I absolutely agree! Great idea!



Waking up with the Cobra them must be like an adrenalin shot! 8-)
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Most of the little jingles from Head over Heels would work. Or work as well as any alarm does at making me hit snooze again.
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Loading noise of speedlock 6, such as slap fight! That'd be a good alarm!
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If I had loading noise as an alarm I'd be single very very very quickly.
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Actually, I think waking up to some Speccy music sounds like a nice idea. Quite fancy Chase HQ or Where Time Stood Still.

Netherworld would he quite cool too, as it builds to a crescendo.
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uglifruit wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 10:23 am If I had loading noise as an alarm I'd be single very very very quickly.
Might set my son’s to such a noise. Maybe it’ll get him out of bed.
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Surely you’d want the sweet sweet sound when you hang-glide from the 128K version of Glider Rider to gently wake you up.
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Very nice ideas so far. Feel free to post audio clips (or youtube links), anyone.
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Now there's a bit of me that wants to have personalised loading header noise of my common contacts, each with their own one

Just this bit...

PROGRAM: Uglifruit

...and over time I'd be able to discern the difference between them by sound alone, and confidently announce to my partner "ooh, Sean has sent me a message" before looking, and confirm her suspicions than my gradual transformation into cyborg is complete.
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I've had the first of these as a text alert for... a number of years that may now be into double digits.

This is the "alarm" sound I've had for every bit as long, and this is when I get a call, mainly because it's some kind of victory when someone out there who has my number remembers that I exist (and it isn't spam).

None of these are Spectrum sounds. Anyone who objects, cope and seethe.
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I think this thread should be to post sounds not only for waking up/incoming calls, but also short sounds to use when receiving a sms/whatsapp/etc message.

The 'metal' sound when dying in Firelord might be cool.
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Willy's jump for a text!
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I still occasionally get the 'up and at em!' jingle from Jack the Nipper in my head in the mornings.

You hear it when you start a new game. It sounds a big like an alarm jingle anyway.

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I've tried a few, with mixed results.

At this moment in time.

Pyjamarama (later version) title screen tune

3 Weeks In Paradise 128K Title, slightly different to beeper one

Alchemist title screen tune.

Easy to turn into a small .mp4 and use. The 3Weeks one is a bit quiet compared to the other two, beeper version seems OK.

I did try MM and JSW but they are (Spectrum version at least) not ideal for this purpose.

I on;y have those as a ringtone.
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uglifruit wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 10:23 am If I had loading noise as an alarm I'd be single very very very quickly.
If I can stay off Fortnite (if), I'll slap Audacity this evening :D



any use?
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