Hardware Sprites

Here you can see a crude demo of hardware sprites doing some parallax scrolling on the raspberry pi 4. I know, it's not impressive. But it's important.

At the time I am writing this, the linux vc4 driver does not give you full access to hardware sprites as one can accomplish the same using alpha compositing with OpenGL ( and Vulkan ).

However, hardware sprites are the least expensive path to do old style 2D games, both in terms of latency and of required computational resources.

In simple terms, with this setting we can start creating amiga-like games on the PI, hopefully with way much higher performance.