> In fact, the Amiga computer's monitor output was used to display the Toaster user interface but when a video effect was running the interface was entirely replaced with odd patterns that looked like bar codes. These were the addresses being fed from the Amiga to the Toaster hardware in real-time.
No way, that’s why the wipes took over the switcher screen and where that peculiar vertical line pattern came from?
I can still remember these with an odd intensity from playing with the Toaster at the studio where my dad worked 30 years ago.