Amiga rasterbars are cool -- Meet the Copper, the hardware that helps make them happen

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Rasterbars are a common special effect on early computer games and demos. The Commodore Amiga's take on rasterbars are special due to the Copper, a special processor that synchronizes its activity to your monitor's image rendering hardware.

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References

Documentation:

* Amiga Coprocessor Docs (http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_...) - Commodore's official documentation on the Copper

Examples:

* Code examples on Hackerbun (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustr...) - The code I wrote for the example copperbars in the video, written in C
* Copperbars in Assembler (http://vikke.net/index.php?id=copperb...) - Another description and demo for building copperbars, this one in Assembler

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Credits

* "Funin and Sunin" by Kevin MacLeod
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