The sprites of the A great feature of the Amstrad CPC plus is hardware sprites. Hardware sprites are handled by the [[ASIC]]. The ASIC can handle up to 16 sprites per [[scanline]], each hardware sprite is always 16 x 16 pixels of size.
== The data ==
Each sprite has the ability to show can display 15 distinct colours, the pixel colours are indexed #0 - #F.
Index #0 is always transparency, whereas index #1 - #F is the colour index in the sprite palette.
== The colour palette ==
The ASIC can handle 4096 colours. Each colour is defined as values of red, green and blue.
== Example ==
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