A review by sbossen
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Ian Bogost, Nick Montfort

3.0

This was a neat book to read. It was particularly interesting to me because of my strong programming background and fond memories of the system. With today's programs it's hard to imaging fitting any thing playable into a cram packed 4k bytes of program ROM space and a measly 128 bytes RAM. This book details the technical challenge of the system and several of the top selling programs. I'm not sure that this book will be for someone who is not very technical.