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copperbar

noun

Etymology

From copper + bar, after the "copper" (coprocessor) component of the Commodore Amiga chipset.

  1. derived from *barra✻
  2. derived from barre
  3. inherited from barre
  4. compounded as copperbar — “copper + bar”

Definitions

  1. An animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.

    • There a^([sic]) quite a lot of effects you can get with horz.retraces, eg a textmode copperbar (change color #0 with every scanline)
    • Although most cards still support screen-tweaking, you can just forget about copperbars (writing within horizontal retrace fuks up the screen BADLY) and other effex. Same goes for changing the font.
    • There was also the (really pretty famous) RSI Demomaker that let u make up your own intros/demos from a load of stock effects (bobs, starfields, copperbars, scrollers etc).. havent been able to find that tho...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copperbar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA