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copperbar

copperbar noun: an animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.

Noun

copperbar (plural copperbars)

  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)1996, WolfMan^iNSaNiTY, “Which scanline???”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)
    • 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.1998, Paul-Jan Pauptit, “Raster trix are a problem nowadays.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Forms of copperbar

pluralcopperbars

Origin of copperbar

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

Questions about copperbar

What does copperbar mean?
Copperbar means an animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.
What part of speech is copperbar?
Copperbar is a noun.
What is the plural of copperbar?
The plural of copperbar is copperbars.

Words near copperbar in the dictionary

  1. copperah
  2. copperahs
  3. copperas
  4. Copperas Cove
  5. copperases
  6. copperbar
  7. copperbars
  8. copperbellies
  9. copperbelly
  10. Copperbelt
  11. Copperbelt Province

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