charliecron

I think I probably sold the last one of these, to a collector in Japan, about 2 years ago. Haven't seen one for sale since. I do have one myself, but not for sale sorry. The best advise I can give is to watch the German ebay. This is the only place I have seen them for sale.

I would guess that its as simple as it had to be 8K to run on machines without a lot of RAM. Like the Atari 400.

Build your own!

http://www.ramseyele...action&key=TV6C

Pretty sure you can connect standard 3.5 Floppy drive to an ATR-8000.

http://www.atarimaga...uctreviews.html

Great, success.

One thing to keep in mind. A couple years ago I was doing some conversions and I was having a terrible time with a tape that worked fine on real hardware. Someone here at atariage suggested it may be related to system load, the system could have trouble keeping up when recording, and you can miss samples. I believe I was recording in a virtual machine, and sure enough when I used Audcacity natively on the host, I succeded the first time!

I suppose maybe the reverse could also be true? When playing a wav file, maybe sound cards can sometime miss samples on playback. Who knows. One thing some folks who are really into tapes do is rather than make the recording from a sound card source, they will record it on to CD ROM first, and then make the tape from that. They don't trust the DAC. I guess nice audio CD players have some higher resolution DAC's (24bit vs 16bit? I really don't know). I haven't done this, but who knows maybe there is something to it.

If your into audio even a little bit, I suppose you know how to bias a tape, but if not definatley get a tape deck with adjustable bias and even adjusting by ear will produce superior recordings.