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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
fireworks mode
The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when
it is performing a crash and burn operation.
[{Jargon File]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]
fireworks mode n. 1. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when
it is performing a crash and burn operation. 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.