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The 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System is a second-generationhome video game console released by Hong Kong company Radofin in 1979. 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.
Programmable video interface: Signetics 2636N at 3.58MHz. This chipset was less powerful than the later model Signetics 2637N used in the Arcadia 2001.
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Misc
The early games cartridges used a 2KB ROM, later ones, such as Activision branded ones, up to 8KB[contradictory]
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User programming
An expensive £49 (equivalent to £288.01 in 2025 pounds[1]) Hobby Module was available which gave 6.5 kilobits of user-programmable memory and had a 5-pin DIN socket to allow software to be saved to a cassette tape player. This converted the unit into halfway between a home computer and an ordinary gaming console.
The user had to be familiar with programming in Signetics 2650 assembly language and the unconventional ways and register architecture of the Signetics 2650 processor.
Released versions
The console was produced by different companies and sold with different names. Although all variants have identical computational hardware, changes to the dimensions of the cartridge slot on some variants result in cartridges not always being interchangeable between systems. The following is a table of the console variants grouped by cartridge compatibility.
TRQ carts fit and work on Interton consoles. Interton carts don't fit in TRQ consoles.
Games
Although, not much information is known about the release dates of the cartridges, the total number of the games should be 59 (33 games released by Radofin between 1977 and 1978, 19 games for the Interton VC 4000 and compatibles after 1978, and 7 more games released around 1980).[2]
Name
Size
Platform
Year
Air/Sea Attack / Air/Sea Battle
2K
Fountain #5 + Palson #9 + Interton #7
Arcade (Voltmace)/Pinball (Interton)
2K
Interton #23 + Voltmace #20
Backgammon
4K
Interton #36
Basic Maths (Fountain)/Mathematics 1 (Interton)
2K
Fountain #7 + Interton #5
Bat & Ball (Voltmace)/Olympics (Fountain)/Paddle Games (Interton/Palson)/Sportsworld (Rowtron)
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