It by “blitting” you mean the Apple had a single 6502 chip which could move bytes around, then yes. But it had no dedicated blitting chip like the Amiga had (wh

It by “blitting” you mean the Apple had a single 6502 chip which could move bytes around, then yes. But it had no dedicated blitting chip like the Amiga had (which I never got to work). The Atari graphics were awkward, too, or so I was told by my boss at the time who did the Atari versions of our products. Good though. What I mean by awkward is just that I was surprised, as someone with no training in computer engineering, how many little quirks you had to work around. Apple graphics were primitive compared to the others, using a seven bit architecture for pixels and the high bit used for color information. At least the C64 had all eight bits for pixels, which made rendering a little faster. C64 sprites were interesting, but like the OP said we had to do tricks with interrupts to reuse them as the screen rastered. I guess another reason I said awkward is that we had to do every trick we could to squeeze the art into memory. Alphabet Zoo was shipped as a 16k cartridge. I did an entire game with art in 16 kilobytes! I used nine bytes to encode my name, then later I needed those nine back again… so no easter egg for me.