Atari 800 User Manual

Atari 410 Program Recorder 195
1. The computer's built-in speaker will so und one time. This is
a signal to th e operator to place th e cassette containing th e
program to be lo aded in the Atari 410 Program Recorder.
2. Use the rewind and fast f orward keys to position the tape to
th e area o n the tape near the beginning of th e pro gram . It is
a
good practice to save a program at the beginning point of
a tape as it is then easy to loca t e.
For programs not recorded at the beginning of a tape, the
410's tape cou nter can be used to locate a program's
beginning position.
3. Once the beginning po s ition of th e program on the tape is
l ocated, the play button on th e 410 Program Recorder
sh ou ld be pressed. Also, the Return key on the Atari
co mput er's keyboard must be pressed to s ign al the
co mput er that th e casset te is ready.
4. The casse tt e tape will
then begin moving as the program is
l oaded into memory. By turnin g up the volume on your
monitor or televisi on se t, you ca n actually h ea r th e
program being l oaded. You will h ea r s hort e ruption s of
so und followed by long periods of silence. Ea ch so und
e rupti o n is em itt ed as a block of data is loaded from th e
casse tte.
When the so und er upti ons st op, the t ape will s top as well.
The en tir e program has now bee n l oaded into RAM. The
st
op key on the 410 Program R eco rder s hould th en be
pressed to st op the tape.
RUN "e:" Statement
The RUN "C" statement is a variation of the RUN stateme nt
which all ows th e user to both load and run a program from the
410 Program Recorder in a single step.
The
RUN "c" st ateme nt is in fact a comb in a tion of the LOAD
"c" and RUN statemen t s. Th erefo re, RUN "c" ca n only be used
to load
programs saved with the SAVE "c" st ate ment.

Atari 800 Specifications

General

Processor	MOS Technology 6502
Processor Speed	1.79 MHz
ROM	10 KB
Graphics	ANTIC and GTIA chips
Release Year	1979
Display Resolution	up to 320 x 192
Colors	128 colors
Sound	4 channels
Storage	Cartridge, cassette, floppy disk
Ports	Cartridge, serial, monitor
Operating System	Atari OS