Lesson 17: Cycle Counting — The Heart of Beam Racing

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This lesson is under development.

Part: Part 2: TV & TIA

What you'll learn:

• 76 CPU cycles per scanline
• Cycle costs of every instruction category
• Counting cycles by hand
• When every cycle counts: critical scanlines

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This lesson is part of Racing the Beam — 72 hands-on lessons in Atari 2600 assembly programming.