Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System is a book by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort describing the history and technical challenges of programming for the Atari 2600 video game console.
RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer System is a book by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort describing the history and technical challenges of programming...
to sync the code to the screen on the part of the programmer was labeled "racingthebeam"; the actual game logic runs when the television beam is outside...
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames and the co-author of RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer System and Newsgames: Journalism at...
Beam is an American brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky, by Beam Suntory. It is one of the best-selling brands of bourbon in the world...
RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer System. MIT Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-262-26152-4. The idea of a game with a virtual space bigger than the screen...
Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved November 3, 2020. Monfort, Nick & Bogost, Ian (2009). RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer...
the display, creating a full screen requires the game program to update the registers on the fly, a process known as "racingthebeam". To start the process...
The Film Yearbook, 1984 (illustrated ed.). Random House. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-394-62488-4. Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). RacingtheBeam: The Atari...
relative to the display hardware's refresh cycle, known as raster interrupt or racingthebeam. In that case, the software writes to the areas of the display...
(2009). RacingtheBeam. MIT Press. p. 150. Biggs, John (August 2, 2010). "Halo 2600: Halo Redone For the Atari 2600". Tech Crunch. Archived from the original...
Drag racing is a type of motor racing in which automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be first to cross a set finish line. The race...
Bogost, Ian (March 31, 2009) [1st. Pub. 2009]. "Chapter 2: Combat". RacingtheBeam. MIT Press. pp. 20. ISBN 9780262012577. "Atari 2600 | Toys with a History...
March 15, 2017. Bogost, Ian; Montfort, Nick (2009). RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer System. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7. "A Brief History...
Beam Breakers is a racing game released in 2002. It was published by JoWooD Productions and developed by Similis. The game takes place in the year 2173...
wrote RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009), a study of world's first widespread gaming system, the Atari 2600. Racingthe Beam...
Adrienne Beames from Australia is frequently credited as the first woman to break the three-hour barrier in the marathon. In the 1953 Boston Marathon, the top...
games consoles and home computers resulted in limited color palettes at the highest resolutions. RacingtheBeam: The Atari Video Computer System v t e...