Posted By
Stinaris
on 2018-11-12
17:58:34
 |  Re: what is all the fuss about the plus4 not having hardware sprites?
It's not fuss, it's a genuine disadvantage.
As others have said the CPU side of it is very time consuming.
Memory is a factor but considering most sprites are animated it's not a drastic, although still drastic, as it could be.
The HW Sprites can each be coloured independently also giving a more colourful display.
Plus of course you can multiplex them.
HW Sprites do make a difference, check out Uridium on the speccy compared to the C64.
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