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Wall-E 開機聲 at MacGrass, on June 26th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

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A MATCH MADE IN SPACE: WALL-E AND APPLE « MRod says: Is the crew ready? Like spaghetti., on June 27th, 2008 at 6:40 am

[...] a doubt, the big movie of the weekend is going to be WALL*E, and Pete Mortensen over at Cult of Mac notes that the film offers some nice easter eggs for Apple fans (aside from the Jonathan [...]

Bites from the Apple: iPhone Turns One, on June 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am

And the voice of Auto is listed as Macintalk

bob, on June 27th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Took my family to see Wall*E this afternoon, and happened to notice that MacinTalk actually gets a voice credit for Auto, the Axiom’s steering-wheel-shaped autopilot.

Jim Thompson, on June 27th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Also (SPOILERS HERE!):

WALL•E’s circuit board is BLUE. Like, Logic Board Blue.

I don’t know, maybe that’s reading too much into it, but It still struck me as a little odd (all the other boards shown in the film are green).

Cameron Talley, on June 27th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Here’s two more:

The space theme for Leopard is really similar to the space images in Wall-E (IE: the bright pinkish/purplish celestial clouds).

“Also Sparch Zarathustra” by Strauss is also featured in the movie (it was in Apple’s 1984 commercial).

C Rolls, on June 27th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

Awesome — I love inside jokes.

Partners in Grime, on June 28th, 2008 at 9:55 am

Don’t forget about Auto’s voice, played ably by Macintalk

Dave, on June 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Several people have mentioned that “Macintalk” is listed as the voice of Auto — if you’d like to hear Auto in Leopard, you can use the voice “Bad News.”
Also, in the scene where Eve and WallE are sent down the garbage chute, the first scene has some “mice” scattering — and the mice certainly appear to be styled like the Mighty Mouse.

Todd Gunther, on June 28th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

I’m not certain what the intended demographic for the movie is, but I can report that my 8 year-old son just walked in the door after having seen Wall•E on a field trip with his day camp buddies today.

I asked him how it was and he said, “horrible.”

Surprised, I asked “how come?” And he replied, “because it was totally boring.”

“What made it boring?”

“Nothing fun or exciting happened.”

Lonnie Lazar, on July 1st, 2008 at 4:46 pm

Come’on. Loads more than that.

The hand on red octagonal background on the security bots screen when they’re told to “Stop!” - straight from Mac System 6 / 7.

Startup chime is Mac II, Quadra is a bit longer and more fancy. Any Mac II owner will confirm. I still have them all as ’snd ‘ resources from my old Macs.

Original Apple keyboard in the trash at the start, I still have one of these too.

simon, on July 11th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

I take it back, the startup chime is from a Quadra, maybe a Quadra AV, not Mac II. Very similar to a PowerPC, but the PPC chime is a bit richer.

And the white hand is on a square red background, when the bots chasing them command “Halt!” (not “Stop!” that I said earlier).

Looks like a Mac II extended keyboard. Two keyboards are visible when Eve is bouncing around in Wall-E’s home. One is unrecognisable, but the one bihind has the Power button top right.

simon, on July 12th, 2008 at 1:36 am

Yes indeed, Auto is voiced by the voice “Bad News” from Macintalk.

However all “Bad News” does for me is sing. I don’t want a singing Auto! Any one know how to get it to “not sing”?

The “Bad News” voice from Leapord should be the same as the one I’m using on Mac OS 9. Unless the Leapord version doesn’t sing….

Spenser, on July 14th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

I just tried out “Ralph” voice and it is identical to “Bad News” The only difference is that “Ralph” doesn’t sing. Or at least I was able to make Ralph sound like “Bad News” by changing its modulation with “Tex-Edit” Unlike SimpleText or the Speech control panel, Tex-Edit allows me to change the modulation, and Pitch. so with a tiny tweak (modulation is the only differance between the two voices, except the singing of coarse)

“Bad News” had a modulation of 0, while “Ralph” had a modulation of 50. The pitch were the same, and according to my ears, they are the same voice. Except that Ralph doesn’t sing.

So if you want your own version of Auto, choose Ralph, and use Tex-Edit for text to speech (since Tex-Edit gives you more voice edit options)! SimpleText doesn’t even let you change the speed of the voice, so I don’t recommend this for text to speech, especially if you want your own Auto.

More then likaly most of you are using more “modern” MacOS’s, so it may be possible the Leaperd version of the Speech control panel may let you change pitch and modulation (or even more settings?). But I only have MacOS 9, so thats all I have for referance. Not sure what the Leapord version of Ralph sounds like, but I would suspect it would be the same.

Spenser, on July 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

What about the “TADAA” at the end of Wall-E’s dance for Eve?
I thought that referenced the TADAA at the end of the Apple Puzzle in Macintosh LC II.

kohlcass, on August 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm