Random Sound Starter (RSS)
About
RSS is a program I originally wrote in 1996 to randomize the Windows startup sound. At the time there were no programs I could find which would do this
without constantly running in the system tray (yuk). This program is now obsolete as it is DOS-dependent, and Microsoft decided to get rid of DOS in
all Windows versions after Win98. It won't run in the emulation either as it uses DOS before Windows loads. It will still work nicely on all editions
of the following versions:
- Windows 3.x
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
RSS is freeware. I am actually going to release a v1.2 at which point the source code will be available, simply because right now all the code is in one
single main(), because I intended for the program to be a very simple one but it grew far bigger than I would have thought. This is obviously embarassing
source, so I'll chop it up into functions at least to make it a little bit less embarassing. I'm not going to rewrite it / modify it to work with current
Windows versions as I'm sure by now there are plenty of programs which can do this, the feature might even be built into the latest Windows versions, and I
don't really use Windows anymore anyway. However, I'll probably port it to Linux. This should be fairly simple since I used GCC (DJGPP) to compile it in
the first place.
Download
Latest Windows version is 1.1 - RSS11.ZIP
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