I recently activated this accessory to see if I could get one of my 410 tape machines to work. I can hear the motors running but the tape no move. I hope you have better luck.

The Atari Program Recorder is a stereo recorder/player. The right channel is used for program storage and the left can hold audio information. This audio channel can hold music or speech and is sent to the TV or monitor speaker. Of course you can control this from the computer, which makes for some interesting options.

This accessory makes it possible to play music(left sound track) using the program recorder while using Diamond. First plug in your Program Recorder. Copy RECORDER.ACC to your Diamond BOOT disk, then re-boot. Put a prerecorded cassette into the recorder and push play. Now point to the accessories in the menu bar and click on CAS ON/OFF. The recorder motor should start and you should be hearing whatever is on the left channel of the tape. Click CAS ON/OFF again to turn off the music.

Be sure to keep in mind that you can not have the motor on and use the disk drive. Stop the recorder motor before you try to access the disk drive.

The accessory is about 25 bytes long. There is only enough room for about 300 bytes of accessories. Deactivate one if you need to.

RECORDER.zip

The ZIP file contains RECORDER.ACC and RECORDER.M65