cgfatari79 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) I just picked a load of my old atari gear up from storage. I also picked up a load of old audio cassettes. No longer having a Walkman or cassette deck I was wondering how I could play them through the atari. Wasn't there some poke or command to do so obviously cload will cancel out with an error. It's been too long. Can't remember help please. Edited May 31, 2020 by cgfatari79 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 POKE 54018,52 turns on tape motor enable. But the audio only comes through one track, the other is data and you'll not hear it other than a bit of bleed through. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 What tapes do you have? Would you be interested in selling them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voxel Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 On 5/31/2020 at 4:42 AM, Rybags said: POKE 54018,52 turns on tape motor enable. Brings back memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgfatari79 Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) On 6/1/2020 at 12:09 AM, Stephen said: What tapes do you have? Would you be interested in selling them? Well they're mostly old personal recordings of some friends bands I used to hang with way back. But also some old Xfm (UK alternative radio station) recordings when the radio station was actually cool in its infancy. Which I will probably have to convert to digital at some point. I haven't sorted through them just yet but I expect mostly heavy metal music. Also I have a fair collection of atari games on cassette. Edited June 1, 2020 by cgfatari79 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 8 minutes ago, cgfatari79 said: Well they're mostly old personal recordings of some friends bands I used to hang with way back. But also some old Xfm (UK alternative radio station) recordings when the radio station was actually cool in its infancy. Which I will probably have to convert to digital at some point. I haven't sorted through them just yet but I expect mostly heavy metal music. Also I have a fair collection of atari games on cassette. OK - no worries. I just repaired my 1st 3-head cassette deck and while I have all of my old tapes, like a dumb shit I threw away all the pre-recorded ones when I moved to this house 5 years ago thinking "I'll never listen to those again". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgfatari79 Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 14 minutes ago, Stephen said: OK - no worries. I just repaired my 1st 3-head cassette deck and while I have all of my old tapes, like a dumb shit I threw away all the pre-recorded ones when I moved to this house 5 years ago thinking "I'll never listen to those again". What tapes are you missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 1 hour ago, cgfatari79 said: What tapes are you missing? Oh man - I can't remember all of them, but it was a large collection. Basically everything my dad collected post vinyl and before we went CD. I'm certainly not going to try to recreate the collection, I'm just mad I don't still have them. I normally don't throw away much and this is why. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilsaluki Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I kept all my LPs and cassettes. I have a Walkman, I listen to them at work to drown out the talking heads. People give me all sorts of gruff about my 'old tech'. If they only knew. PS. Still have 8-tracks as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 (edited) just be ready with new glue for the pressure pad, damn things just started falling off on all of mine.... Edited June 2, 2020 by _The Doctor__ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 11 hours ago, gilsaluki said: I kept all my LPs and cassettes. I have a Walkman, I listen to them at work to drown out the talking heads. People give me all sorts of gruff about my 'old tech'. If they only knew. PS. Still have 8-tracks as well. Oh yeah - I kept all mu albums and have never stopped collecting. I'm up to almost 390 titles now, with quite a few being double albums. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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