| Ozyr's Odyssey2 Archive Index | |
updated 06/11/2007 - added
PPP to game listing! |
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Welcome to the unofficial Odyssey2 Video
Game Archive
Here you will find instructions, box scans 
,
cartridge scans 
, and screen shots
for all the U.S. Odyssey2
released game cartridges.
Special thanks to the following people for helping complete the U.S. game
list:
John Dondzila (for permission
to post his Amok! instructions.)
René van
den Enden (for permission to post instructions for his homebrew game
and application - the instructions were created by myself with some help
from René, and artwork was done by Earl Green! Thanks also to René for
being one of the most knowledgeable, helpful and friendliest O2/Videopac
persons I have
met
on
the net!)
Jason Gohlke (Computer Intro and some others)
Soren Gust (for
permission to post Kill The Attacking Aliens, and for supplying me with his
original manual graphics!)
Ted Szczypiorski - (for
permission to post his homebrew game instructions, and for his help in dealing
with Adobe Acrobat when creating the Calculator instructions!)
A lot of games for the Odyssey 2 were very similar to Atari 2600 games, but with much simpler graphics and gameplay. The Challenger and Master Strategy Series games, which came out in the later half of the Odyssey era, were of a much better design, even though the graphics still lacked when compared to other current systems. There were also more games released over in Europe, where the system was slightly more popular than in the United States.
Technical Specs:
-Intel 8048 (8-bit) processor, 5.37 MHz, 2.79 micro sec. instruction cycle
-64 bytes Ram internal, 1k Rom internal, 8 level stack,
12 bit address bus with external
address latch, 8 bit data bus
-Ram chip 6810, 128 bytes
-VDC Intel 8244 chip (video display controller), 3.58 Mhz, 176 x 122 pixels,
NTSC, 60 frames per second, vertical blanking 22 lines,
16 colors (8 colors with 2 brightness levels),
1 color per Sprite, 8x8 Sprite size, 4 Max Sprites on Screen,
built-in character generator, 64 different characters, 28 max on-screen
-30 pin cartridge port
-Standard cartridge size: 2k, 4k or 8k (some exceptions with extra hardware
inside the cart)
-1 sound channel, noise generator, sound generated by 24 bit shift register inside
the VDC,
shift frequencies approximately 1kHz or 4Khz, 16 volume levels, mono sound.
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