[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'235004\' date=\'Jan 26 2010, 02:17 PM\'][quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'235002\' date=\'Jan 26 2010, 11:11 AM\']Which my Dad solved by rewiring the Odyssey to use Atari joysticks.[/quote]
My first reaction: "You could DO this?"
My second reaction, remembering what I know today about electronics: "Of course you could. Then I wonder why someone didn't make an adapter accessory of some kind, like the one that existed at one time for the Apple II?"
Then I remembered the O2's market share, and sighed.
Oh, would that I had the electronics skills I have today back in 1980...
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Only the first gen O2s had hook-in-the-back joysticks, the later models had hard-wired-to-the-board ones, making it impossible without some serious knowledge. We had a first gen box, so he either just changed the wiring on the hookup control or went to radio shack, got the 9 pin atari controller and added it (I don't recall). We sold it (plus about 30 games) right before the crash for $300, which we used to fund a C-64. About 15 years ago, I found an O2 at a garage sale for $1. I attempted the same thing but it was fail, since it was second gen and the joystick component was the on-the-board variety.