The 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System is a video game console

Video game console

A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...

 released by European company Radofin in 1976. It is part of a group of software-compatible consoles which include the Interton VC-4000

VC 4000

The VC 4000 is an early 8-bit cartridge-based game console released in Germany in 1978 by Interton. The console is quite obscure outside Germany, but many software compatible systems can be found in many European countries...

 and the Voltmace Database. The 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System included its power pack inside the console instead of an exterior power pack.

Specifications

• CPU: 8-bit
  8-bit
  The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system. The Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers...
  
   Signetics 2650
  Signetics 2650
  The Signetics 2650, was a very early 8-bit microprocessor. According to Adam Osborne's classic book An Introduction to Microprocessors Vol 2: Some Real Products, it was "the most minicomputer-like" of the microprocessors available at the time....
  
  AI 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
  Arcadia 2001
  The Arcadia 2001 is a second-generation 8-bit console released by Emerson Radio Corp. The game library was composed of 51 unique games and about 10 variations. The graphic quality is similar to that of the Intellivision and the Odyssey²....
  
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• Data Memory: 43 bytes

Graphics

• Sprites
  Sprite (computer graphics)
  In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene...
  
  : 4 single colour sprites (1 can be 8 colours)
• 1 Score line displaying 4 BCD
  Binary-coded decimal
  In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal is a digital encoding method for numbers using decimal notation, with each decimal digit represented by its own binary sequence. In BCD, a numeral is usually represented by four bits which, in general, represent the decimal range 0 through 9...
  
   digits
• Background consisting of a series of alternating lines

Misc

• Controllers: 2 × 12-button with 2-axis control stick
• Power Supply: Input 250V, 50Hz; Output 9.5V, 0.4A & 15V, 0.11A

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 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System 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...	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 Grandstand (game manufacturer) Grandstand was a video game console and electronic game manufacturer and distributor. It was based in the United Kingdom and New Zealand and was active in the 1970s and 1980s.-Overview:...
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 Waddington Waddington is a large rural commuter village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Situated approximately south of Lincoln on the A607 Grantham Road... /Voltmace	United Kingdom
Television Computer System	Rowtron	United Kingdom	Television Computer System
Jeu Video TV	Karvan Karvan Karvan may refer to:*Claudia Karvan, an Australian actress*FK Karvan, an Azerbaijani football club*Kayavarohan, a village near Vadodara, Gujarat, India, famous for Pashupata Guru Lakulish and Shiva temple...	Francia	Video TV Game
OC-2000	Societe Occitane Electronique	France
MPT-05	ITMC		MPT-05
Super Play Computer 4000	Grundig Grundig Grundig AG is a German manufacturer of consumer electronics for home entertainment which transferred to Turkish control in 2004-2007. Established in 1945 in Nuremberg by Max Grundig, the company changed hands several times before becoming part of the Turkish Koç Holding group...	Germany	Interton VC-4000
VC 4000 VC 4000 The VC 4000 is an early 8-bit cartridge-based game console released in Germany in 1978 by Interton. The console is quite obscure outside Germany, but many software compatible systems can be found in many European countries...	Interton

External links

• Interton VC 4000 and relatives cart list
• Emerson Arcadia 2001 Central also covers this console