Sokoban version 2.4 adds sound support. The sounds are in the file “Sokoban Sounds”. If you don’t like sound, you can either turn sound off (look on the Edit menu) or rename or delete the “Sokoban Sounds” file.
To substitute your own favorite sounds, make sounds with the following names:
“Sok Push” — for pushing a treasure
“Sok Walk” — when you don’t push a treasure
“Sok No Move”—played when no move is possible
“Sok Finish Level”—played when you finish a level.
Or you can be more specific. To play different sounds for different kinds of pushes, make sounds titled
“Sok Push In” — for pushing a treasure into a goal area
“Sok Push Out” — played when you push a treasure out of a goal area
“Sok Hit Wall”—when you run into a wall
“Sok Blocked Treasure”—when a treasure can’t be pushed because a wall or another treasure is behind it.
You don’t need to include all of these sounds; any sound not found will not be played. If both a specific sound and a general sound apply to the current move, the more specific sound will be used.
You can either put these sounds into the “Sokoban Sounds” file, or put them into your System file (perhaps using the Sound control panel to record from a microphone). If you put the sounds into the System file, you may need to delete or at least rename “Sokoban Sounds” because Sokoban looks for sounds in that file first and will ignore the System file sounds.
If you use very long sounds (more than about 50K), you’ll need to increase Sokoban’s memory partition. If Sokoban doesn’t have enough memory to load a sound, it can’t play it.
The current sounds aren’t very interesting. If you come up with something better, let me know. I’ll include the sounds I like best in the next update of Sokoban.
