Disk noise
For those who miss the gentle whirring and clicking of old hard drives and floppies, dosbox-automation can play emulated disk noises. It's a small touch, but it adds a surprising amount of atmosphere - there's something oddly satisfying about hearing the floppy drive chatter while a game loads.
For the full "waiting for the game to load" experience, pair disk noises
with throttled disk speeds (see the
floppy_disk_speed and
hard_disk_speed settings). The
volume is adjustable via the DISKNOISE mixer
channel.
If desired, the FLAC samples can be replaced with custom sounds in the
resources/disk-noises directory, as long as they are in 22 kHz format.
Configuration settings
You can set the disk noise parameters in the [disknoise] configuration
section.
floppy_disk_noise
Enable emulated floppy disk noises. Plays spinning disk and seek noise
sounds when enabled. It's recommended to set
floppy_disk_speed to lower than
maximum for an authentic experience.
Possible values:
off(default) -- No floppy disk noises.seek-only-- Play floppy disk seek noises only, no spin noises.on-- Play both floppy disk seek and spin noises.
Note
You can customize the disk noise volume by changing the volume of the
DISKNOISE mixer channel.
hard_disk_noise
Enable emulated hard disk noises. Plays spinning disk and seek noise
sounds when enabled. It's recommended to set
hard_disk_speed to lower than
maximum for an authentic experience.
Possible values:
off(default) -- No hard disk noises.seek-only-- Play hard disk seek noises only, no spin noises.on-- Play both hard disk seek and spin noises.
Note
You can customize the disk noise volume by changing the volume of the
DISKNOISE mixer channel.