Someone on /. says that the sosumi sound was lifted from the Crystal Quest game.
<http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143415&cid=12020084>
Can anyone fact check this ?
- Well, there's nowhere else on the Internet where anyone's claiming that. I'll be looking into it in more detail soon. --Carnildo 19:12, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/24/early_apple_sound_de.html
Jim adds, "Funny, it may actually be true. The sosumi beep may have originally came from Crystal Quest!"
So, it's true, sosumi was indeed lifted from crystal quest.
- "May have". Doesn't mean yes, doesn't mean no. The exact quote from the Slashdot thread is "Well, I'm responsible for Sosumi, the System 7 beeps, and the startup sound (which all remain in use today). I don't actually remember where or how I obtained the original sound." Any claims that it was stolen from Crystal Quest are simply unverifiable rumors. --Carnildo 23:39, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I doubt that the Sosumi sound came from Crystal Quest. As far as I remember Crystal Quest, it's a game that came to the Mac relatively late - at least after these system sounds were added. --TorbenGB 28 July 2005
What about "wild eep"? Does it have a story, too?
- I doubt it. It seems to me like it's just a wild eep. --Carnildo 03:56, 27 July 2005 (UTC)