Glossary - Commodore Amiga Hardware Reference Manual

Aliasing distortion
Alt keys
Amiga keys
AmigaDOS
Amplitude
Amplitude modulation
Attach mode
Automatic mode
Barrel shifter
Baud rate
Beam counters
Bit-map
Glossary
A side effect of sound sampling, where two additional fre-
quencies are produced, distorting the sound output.
Two keys on the keyboard to the left and right of the
Amiga keys.
Two keys on the keyboard to the left and right of the space
bar.
The Amiga operating system.
The voltage or current output expressed as volume from a
sound speaker.
A means of increasing audio effects by using one audio chan-
nel to alter the amplitude of another.
In sprites, a mode in which a sprite uses two DMA channels
for additional colors. In sound production, combining two
audio channels for frequency/amplitude modulation or for
stereo sound.
In sprite display, the normal mode in which the sprite DMA
channel, once it starts up, automatically retrieves and
displays all of the data for a sprite. In audio, the normal
mode in which the system retrieves sound data automati-
cally through DMA.
Blitter circuit that allows movement of Images on pixel
boundaries.
Rate of data transmission through a serial port.
Registers that keep track of the position of the video beam.
The complete definition of a display in memory, consisting
of one
01
more bit-planes and information about how to
organize the rectangular display.
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