Atari Speed Reading CX4126 (C) 1981 Atari, Inc. ; please use with BASIC cartridge.#

Introduction#

Atari Speed Reading is not just another Voice & Data program from Atari. It is the(!) template how a Voice & Data cassette has to be digitized. Peter Dell and Stefan Meyer had made a masterpiece here, showing us, how this can be done. First, we have a marvelous recording with the best parameters, which made the nowadays standard for recording Atari cassettes. Second, we have a manual in a top condition to quickly and easy find entries for the users and third, we have here an incredible good separation of the Voice & Data layers for further needs.

Peter Dell and Stefan Meyer recording Atari Speed Reading CX4126

Abstract#

Do it yourself self paced program, in only 30 days of practice you can increase your Reading, Speed and Comprehension.  8 Workbook units / lessons with 6 Elements in each unit (Warm-Up Exercise / Phrase-Reading Exercise / Paced and Timed Readings / New Techniques / Flexible Reading / Reading Progress Graph, also includes Voice-over Audio track which provides encouragement and instructions while the programs are loading.  Requires an Atari Joystick, 410 or 1010 cassette recorder and the Atari BASIC cartridge. Ages 15 - adult. Requires 16K RAM. Thank you Bradley Koda from best-electronics-ca for the text.

References#

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading ; Speed reading in Wikipedia in English
  
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnelllesen ; same as above in German
  

Box#

Atari Speed Reading CX4126

Manuals#

• Speed Reading manual in the printversion ; 205 pages ; size: 138.7 MB
• Speed Reading manual in the screenversion ; 205 pages ; size: 44.7 MB
• Atari_Speed_Reading_CX4126_Workbook.pdf ; 222 pages ; size: 27.2 MB

Cassette-Images in FLAC-format (Voice & Data)#

• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_1-Tape_1-Side_1.flac ; size: 105.0 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_2-Tape_1-Side_2.flac ; size: 93.4 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_3-Tape_2-Side_1.flac ; size: 95.9 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_4-Tape_2-Side_2.flac ; size: 95.2 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_5-Tape_3-Side_1.flac ; size: 91.5 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_6-Tape_3-Side_2.flac ; size: 89.9 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_7-Tape_4-Side_1.flac ; size: 92.0 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_8-Tape_4-Side_2.flac ; size: 94.3 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Speed_Reading_Unit_9-Tape_5-Side_1.flac ; size: 23.1 MB

Cassette-Images in FLAC-format (Voice only)#

• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit1.flac ; size: 45.2 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit2.flac ; size: 40.2 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit3.flac ; size: 41.2 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit4.flac ; size: 41.5 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit5.flac ; size: 40.1 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit6.flac ; size: 39.5 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit7.flac ; size: 38.8 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Unit8.flac ; size: 40.6 MB
• http://data.atariwiki.org/FLAC/SR/Timer.flac ; size: 10.3 MB

Cassette-Images in ATR-format (Data only)#

• Unit 1
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
• Unit 4
• Unit 5
• Unit 6
• Unit 7
• Unit 8
• Timer

Separation of Voice & Data#

After recording a cassette in the WAV-format, we can see the following picture in a program called Audacity:
Voice & Data track of a typical Voice & Data - Atari cassette ; thanks to tschak909 from AtariAge for the screenshot

The voice layer is at the top, the data layer at the bottom. With Audacity it is possible to separate the 2 layers. For Atari users with a Mac, this is important, because the emulator Atari800MacX in version 4.6.0 from Mark Grebe is not ready to read in WAV-files. Mark will take a look at that, when he has finished his PhD. Up to that time the Mac users must have that separation in order to use Voice & Data cassettes.

Images:#

Atari Speed Reading cassettes

Atari Speed Reading box

Atari Speed Reading ad 1

Atari Speed Reading ad 2

Atari Speed Reading ad 3

Atari Speed Reading ad 4