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fireworks mode
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n. 1. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a
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crash and burn operation. 2. There is (or was) a more specific meaning of
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this term in the Amiga community. The word fireworks described the effects
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of a particularly serious crash which prevented the video pointer(s) from
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getting reset at the start of the vertical blank. This caused the DAC to
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scroll through the entire contents of CHIP (video or video+CPU) memory.
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Since each bit plane would scroll separately this was quite a spectacular
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effect.
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