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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> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <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
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
Amiga community. The word fireworks described the effects of a particularly
serious crash which prevented the video pointer(s) from getting reset at
the start of the vertical blank. This caused the DAC to scroll through the
entire contents of CHIP (video or video+CPU) memory. Since each bit plane
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> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="firmware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">firewall machine </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> firmware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>