fireworks mode

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fireworks mode - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  fireworks mode
  
     The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when
     it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

fireworks mode - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.