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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fireworks mode</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="firewall-machine.html" title="firewall machine"/><link rel="next" href="firmware.html" title="firmware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fireworks mode</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firewall-machine.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="firmware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fireworks-mode"/><dt xmlns="" id="fireworks-mode"><b>fireworks mode</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is
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performing a <a href="../C/crash-and-burn.html"><i class="glossterm">crash and burn</i></a> operation. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of this term in the
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Amiga community. The word fireworks described the effects of a particularly
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serious crash which prevented the video pointer(s) from getting reset at
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the start of the vertical blank. This caused the DAC to scroll through the
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entire contents of CHIP (video or video+CPU) memory. Since each bit plane
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would scroll separately this was quite a spectacular effect.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="firewall-machine.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="firmware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firewall machine<6E></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>firmware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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