Copperbar

noun

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Noun
  1. 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)"

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"There a^([sic]) quite a lot of effects you can get with horz.retraces, eg a textmode copperbar (change color #0 with every scanline)"

Etymology

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

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