Do fireballs make a sound in AD&D?

[The Mad Monk]

The 1st edition Players' Handbook explicitly states that the fireball spell does not produce any pressure. Since pressure is required to make the waveform necessary for sound, this implies it is nessarily soundless.

What say ye?

[Jamski]

How does it produce an explosive burning effect without pressure? Fireballs should go BOOM!

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Unless you want to make the weak excuse that they are magic, and therefore do not follow the rules of physics, then they'd have to go wooooooosh.......kaboom! as they toast another bunch of goblins.
Although the woosh would depend upon the air through which they were being fired. If your wizard wears gloves then will his fireball just burn them to pieces, or will it be created at a distance from his hands.

[Jamski]

I had the idea that a fireball opened a microscopic hole to the elemental plane of fire for a split second....

But who knows how ANY spell really works?

-Jam

[Drogue]

The fireball is created a short distance away from the mage's fingertips, and then travels to its destination and explodes. In BG it makes a sound.

However I am intrigued by the idea of this huge explosion making a sound of badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerba dgerbadgerbadgerMUSHROOMMUSHROOM

[duke o' york]

Well the fire boomerang goes
banananananananananananananananananananananananana nananaboom!

[General Ludd]

I expect its more of a "woosh" then anything.

[The Mad Monk]

I'm in the *poof* camp, myself. The fireball is 100% fire damage, none "physical", so there can't be much concussive force involved.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
I'm in the *poof* camp, myself.

Yeah, Asher told us all that.

[Drogue]

No, he said he was in the *poof* camp, not a camp poof

[rah]

If this slides all the way to spam, it will be closed.

[Drogue]

And the answer, obviously, when a fireball explodes, it makes a sound of badgerbadgerbadgerbadger

[Alinestra Covelia]

I believe a fireball makes a sort of slapping/punching sound when it hits, provided that the caster pronounced the words "HAI DO KEN!" at its inception.

[duke o' york]

I remember that the exact words were written in the manual of the Amiga version, but it was definitely something like "Hya Ryu Ken!" - naming both the pupils of whichever master it was who had taught them that (and also saving on sound files ).

[The Mad Monk]

I knew the badger selection was a mistake.

Anyway, I'm going to dig up my old PH, to see if it adds anything.