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Re:How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming by vardump on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:14AM (#18844334)
Yeah, it is. Sprite originally meant a hardware layer, back from the ancient times. Nowadays it also sometimes means rasterized 2D objects.

C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, SNES, Sega Master System, etc. all supported hardware layer sprites back in the eighties.

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