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I don't know anything about programming the O2, but I know there are quite a few homebrews that push the Odyssey beyond what I thought it could to. For example H.E.R.O looks pretty good as shown in the video here: https://videopac.nl/forum/index.php?topic=3711.new

I've never played "The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt", but I've read that it's as exciting as you say. Neat idea to spice it up a bit.

@johannesmutlu, you might be interested in this comment about an Odyssey MegaCART (that never happened) and some other low level details:

Considering its small user base, the homebrew scene for the Odyssey 2/Videopac is surprisingly active. For low level programming info you really need to visit https://videopac.nl/forum/index.php Off the top of my head, Puzzle Piece Panic has polyphonic music and I know there are games larger than 8KB.

I missed a bunch of new threads last summer, so sorry for the late reply. To get this to run on CentOS 9 Stream I had to install the freealut and freeglut packages. I got freealut by downloading the EL7 RPM from https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/freealut/freealut/index.html freeglut was available in a built-in Repositories dnf install ~/Downloads/freealut-1.1.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm dnf install freeglut It's been a couple decades since I looked at any assembly, I assumed it'd only get more complicated the more instructions you have. Very cool little game. I tried to pay you on itch.io, but it says you're not accepting PayPal. Definitely the best Linux x86_64 assembly Odyssey port I've ever played!

You do need to be signed in videopac.nl (but accounts are free). That's some impressive hardware hacking. It's strange how some of the video output is missing though. In addition to SELECT GAME, there should be text in the Speedway and Spin Out games.

Cool stats. Weird that your web dev tools don't detect browser type. I'd think that'd be a pretty basic stat to have. Yeah, unfortunately us Firefox users are a dying breed.

Only two posts (with a couple attachments), but someone faced a similar challenge here: http://videopac.nl/forum/index.php?topic=3372 I noticed the g7400.bin file posted there is different than your bin file.

I keep forgetting we live in a mobile world. I still do 99% of my surfing on my old desktop PC. Good luck with your side quests!

Love the retro themed website. I normally use Firefox on Linux on an old desktop built way back in 2009. I wasn't getting the CRT effects, so I loaded your site in Chrome instead and I got the CRT effects. That's so awesome. Nice little game too. One suggestion, you might want to have some sort of "to buy click here to email me" on the product pages.

I'm a sucker for Christmas themed games, so I couldn't resist ordering this.

I wish there was an option to buy homebrew Odyssey ROMs. I understand why developers woudn't want to have their ROMs made available, but like others have said maybe after a set time period or after the run of carts is sold out it could be made an option?

Will that DB9 accept Atari style controllers or the Odyssey DB9 controllers? Will you have a companion adapter to convert hardwired O2 controllers to DB9?

There was a homebrew game that came with a controller coupler similar to this, was that Mars Menace? I think it was basically a big tray the controllers sat in. If you attached it to the bottom of the controllers it looks like the lip might hit your wrists and be annoying.

Monkeyshines is great as a competitive or cooperative multiplayer. You can even get three players working at the same time with one person working on the keyboard to add/remove pieces on the screen. I view this game as a distant ancestor of Towerfall. +2 for Quest for the Rings (haven't played Conquest of the World yet) Showdown In 2100 AD is one of my favorite Odyssey games. Love playing this against my brother or my kids. There's certainly skill in this game, but the randomness of the ricochets off the trees adds a lot of fun too.