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Steam Step
Sound effects layer for Speed Step monitoring. | |
Adds a steam engine audio accompaniment to PC use.
Using a range of steam engine mp3's, speed step monitoring software sequences them to mirror cpu, memory and disk.
An application causing cpu frequency to go up could cause the virtual steam engine to accelerate according to its memory usage e.g.
how many cars its pulling. Top speed would always be analogous to current power use.
When the cpu is idling, various in-station noises could be played e.g. an infrequent steam letting sound to accompany a disk IO burst of a background process.
Additional sound-schemes can be purchased for different steam engines to give each of your power hungry apps a character.
Sad trombone
http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Wah wah waaaahhhhh [Veho, Mar 16 2009]
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And when your system memory is maxed out and the whole thing bogs down and starts dragging, it plays the sound of the train going off a cliff. |
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//train going off a cliff// |
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Accompanied by that "wah wah waaaaaah" sad trombone effect. |
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[+], this would give feedback without crowding the desktop (even more than it already is). |
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