I managed to reverse engineer some of the raspberry pi hardware up to the point that I have all the ingredients to make a retro-like gaming console.
Particularly, I have audio over HDMI and hardware sprites.
Particularly, I have audio over HDMI and hardware sprites.
"Hardware sprites" means you can tell the graphics hardware to draw the sprite itself, as opposed to the programmer having to redraw the background and then copy the sprite's pixel data on top of it for every frame.