--- title: Société Occitane d'Electronique OC 2000 categories: - Consoles params: name: OC 2000 image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000-black_1_s.jpg company: /companies/societe-occitane-d-electronique company_name: Société Occitane d'Electronique tabs: - photos - adverts - software - emulators - links forum_thread: 1024 photos: - title: BLACK OC-2000 subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000-black_1.jpg - title: OC-2000 & BOX subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000_back-and-box.jpg - title: WHITE OC-2000 subtitle: '' text: Some white models were marketed under the "Karvan" name... image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000-white_1.jpg - title: CLOSE-UP subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000_white_zoom.jpg - title: KARVAN AND ITS BOX subtitle: '' text: Don't ask me why, but SOE sold some of its white systems under the "Jeu Video TV - Karvan" name... image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000-white_box.jpg - title: 'BOX #2' subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000_karvan_box_2.jpg - title: CARTRIDGE STORAGE subtitle: '' text: Up to 7 cartridges could be stored in the system itself. Bottom of the picture are the function buttons and cartridge slot. image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000-white_storage.jpg - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: |- Quite simple... The two white chips are Signetics one (2650A & 2636). Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000_inside.jpg - title: 4 MODELS ! subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/photos/soe_oc2000_4models.jpg adverts: - title: BROCHURE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/pubs/soe_oc2000-black_catalogue.jpg screenshots: - title: BOX subtitle: Tic-tac-toe game text: Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/software/soe_oc2000_morpion4_15_box.jpg - title: BOX OPENED subtitle: '' text: |- Instructions are written on the box itself, and plastic layers for the controllers are attached to the small cartridge. Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/software/soe_oc2000_morpion4_15_box_inside.jpg - title: BOX subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/soe_oc2000_calcul-mental_5-1_box.jpg - title: BOX OPENED subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [Musepat](http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/) for this picture. image: /media/museum/software/soe_oc2000_calcul-mental_5-1_box_inside.jpg emulators: - title: WinArcadia url: http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/ platform: Windows text: Arcadia 2001, Interton VC 4000, Elektor TVGC emulator! - title: AmiArcadia url: http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/ platform: Amiga OS text: Arcadia 2001, Interton VC 4000, Elektor TVGC emulator! links: - title: 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System FAQ url: http://www.consoledatabase.com/faq/1292/1292faq.txt text: Very interesting info by Dale Hansen about this whole console family - title: Emerson Arcadia 2001 Central url: https://amigan.yatho.com/ text: World's largest Interton site - title: INTERNAL LINK url: https://www.old-computers.com/magazine/view.asp?r=2&a=7 text: We have made a page describing the VC 4000 and different compatible systems - title: Radofin 1292 FAQ url: http://www.digitpress.com/faq/1292faq.txt text: Excellent FAQ created by Dale Hansen - title: sig2650.wordpress.com url: https://sig2650.wordpress.com/ text: Website dedicated to Signetics 2650 based systems, by former Voltmace developper Derek Andrews - title: VC4000.de url: http://www.vc4000.de text: Website dedicated to the Interton VC4000 (in German) related: - /museum/acetronic-mpu-1000-2000 - /museum/cabel-universal-game-computer - /museum/interton-vc-4000 - /museum/itmc-video-ordinateur-mpt-05 - /museum/korting-tele-video-computer-tvc-4000 - /museum/rowtron-television-computer-system - /museum/t-r-q-talleres-radioelectricos-querol-h-21-video-computer - /museum/voltmace-database-games-computer oc_id: 1051 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230325054329/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1051 date: '2023-03-25' --- What a funky system ! This is a french system, made in Toulouse, south of France. Société Occitane d'Eléctronique often released systems (pongs, consoles and computers) with original 70's cosmetic design. It is software compatible with the [Interton VC-4000](/museum/interton-vc-4000/) and "clones". This doesn't mean that it can use the Interton cartridges, as they won't fit, but the internal specs and software are the same. The CPU is the 2650A from Signetics and the Video Controller is the 2636 from Signetics as well. About 40 cartridges has been released for the Interton VC-4000, but we can't tell how many were available for the OC-2000, nor if exclusive games were developped for it... Like with all the systems of this "Interton family", there are two controllers with 12 buttons keypad + a joystick. Controllers were designed to use informative plastic layers delivered with each games, showing the functions of each key. The control panel is composed of an ON/OFF switch and 5 buttons. But the most original feature is the cartridge storage compartment located in the middle of the case. Here you can store up to 7 cartridges, waiting to be played. The whole compartment is covered by a removable transparent plastic part. The cosmetic aspect of the console is thus excellent ! There were several models only different by their case colour. Strangely some white models were not marketed as OC-2000 but under the "Jeu video TV - Karvan" name. The most interesting feature of the OC-2000 is surely the cartridge N°13 called "Hobby Computer". It turned the console into a real Signetics 2650-based computer, with 2 KB RAM and 2 KB ROM. You had to program it in assembler via the two controller keypads and the console function buttons. There was even a tape-interface so you could save your creations onto tapes. This was maybe never commercialy released but was at least produced and sent to some journalists (Thanks to François Houste for the info). One particularity about this videogame "family" (VC-4000 & clones), is that they seem to be the only systems which required the game to be loaded into internal RAM from the cartridge, before being able to play (generally through a LOAD PROGRAM or equivalent button found on the control panel).
We need more info about this pong ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.