The 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System is a video game console released by European company Radofin in 1976. It is part of a group of software-compatible consoles which include the Interton VC-4000 and the Voltmace Database. The 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System included its power pack inside the console instead of an exterior power pack.
[edit] Specifications
PCB Scan of the Acetronic MPU-1000.
- CPU: 8-bit Signetics 2650AI at 4.43MHz
- Audiovisual co-processor (video chipset, I/O Processor): Signetics 2636N at 3.58MHz, addressing 32Kb of memory in 8Kb banks. This chipset is powerless, unlike the later model Signetics 2637N used in the Arcadia 2001.
- Data Memory: 43 bytes
[edit] Graphics
- Sprites: 4 single colour sprites (1 can be 8 colours)
- 1 Score line displaying 4 BCD digits
- Background consisting of a series of alternating lines
- Controllers: 2 × 12-button with 2-axis control stick
- Power Supply: Input 250V, 50Hz; Output 9.5V, 0.4A & 15V, 0.11A
[edit] Released versions
The console was produced by different companies and sold with different names. Not every console is compatible with others due to differences in the shapes and dimensions of the cartrige slots (but all of the consoles are software compatible). Here a table of the consoles grouped by compatibility family (due to the slots).
| Name |
Manufacturer |
Country |
Compatibility family |
Other |
| 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System |
Radofin |
|
1292 Advanced Programmable Video System |
Known also as "Radofin Programmierbares Video System" in Germany (1976) |
| 1392 Advanced Programmable Video System |
|
(1976) |
| HMG-1292 Advanced Programmable Video System |
Hanimex |
|
|
| HMG-1392 Advanced Programmable Video System |
|
|
| Force 2 |
Fountain |
|
|
| 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System |
|
|
| 1392 Advanced Programmable Video System |
|
|
| Advanced Programmable Video System |
Grandstand |
|
|
| Lansay 1392 |
Lansay |
|
|
| PP-1292 Advanced Programmable Video System |
Audiosonic |
|
|
| PP-1392 Advanced Programmable Video System |
|
|
| VC-6000 |
Prinztronic |
|
(1976) |
| Tournament |
|
|
| MPU-1000 |
Acetronic |
|
(1979) (Pictured) |
| MPU-2000 |
|
(1979) |
| Database |
Videomaster |
|
Database |
|
| Database |
Waddington/Voltmace |
United Kingdom |
|
| Television Computer System |
Rowtron |
United Kingdom |
Television Computer System |
|
| Jeu Video TV |
Karvan |
Francia |
Video TV Game |
|
| OC-2000 |
Societe Occitane Electronique |
France |
|
| MPT-05 |
ITMC |
|
MPT-05 |
|
| Super Play Computer 4000 |
Grundig |
Germany |
Interton VC-4000 |
|
| VC 4000 |
Interton |
|
|
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