website/content/museum/micronique-victor-lambda.md

---
title: MICRONIQUE Victor Lambda
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- France
years:
- '1980'
cpus:
- Intel 8080 A
params:
  name: Victor Lambda
  image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_victor_lambda_noir.jpg
  company: /companies/micronique
  company_name: MICRONIQUE
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: Victor Lambda
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Micronique
  - label: TYPE
    value: Home Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: France
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1980'
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: |-
      None\
      Basic Level II (Microsoft Basic v4.7) and EDU-Basic (french Basic) available on tape
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: |-
      QWERTY, chicklet keyboard\
      53 keys
  - label: CPU
    value: Intel 8080 A
  - label: SPEED
    value: 2 MHz
  - label: RAM
    value: 16 KB (4698 bytes free when Basic Level II loaded)
  - label: ROM
    value: 2 KB
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 12 x 17
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 112 x 78 in 4 colors
  - label: COLORS
    value: '8'
  - label: SOUND
    value: 1 voice, 4 octaves
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: 2 joystick sockets, RGB video output, RS232 in option
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: Tape recorder (1500 bauds)
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Integrated power supply
  - label: PRICE
    value: 449 (France, december 82)
  tabs:
  - photos
  - adverts
  - hardware
  - software
  - emulators
  - links
  forum_thread: 163
  photos:
  - title: THE BLACK VICTOR LAMBDA
    subtitle: ''
    text: This is the first "french model". It's just an Interact computer with a scart video connector and a built-in PSU.
    image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_victor_lambda_noir.jpg
  - title: LES ENVAHISSEURS !
    subtitle: ''
    text: 'This is the Victor Lambda playing a space-invaders clone : "Les Envahisseurs"...'
    image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_victor_lambda_noir_space_invaders.jpg
  - title: THE WHITE MODEL
    subtitle: ''
    text: 'This model represents a new step in the Victor / Hector family : the new case is white and all the following Micronique models will be white two. This will also be the last model to have this awful keyboard.'
    image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_victor_lambda_blanc.jpg
  - title: MECHANICAL KEYBOARD
    subtitle: ''
    text: This model has a mechanical keyboard. This is the first amelioration made by Micronique from the first Interact Computer. Of course, there is still the integrated tape-recorder.
    image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_victor_lambda_meca.jpg
  adverts:
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (1980)
    subtitle: ''
    text: This french advert dated may 1980, shows the first model sold in France. It was called Victor Lambda and the company name was Lambda Systemes. This model was nothing more than an Interact computer, sold with an english documentation and a NTSC television !
    image: /media/museum/pubs/lambda-systemes_victorlambda_pub_svm752.jpg
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (OCT. 1980)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (1982)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/pubs/micronique_victor-lambda_pub_qui-dit-mieux_1.png
  hardware:
  - title: THE CONTROLLERS
    subtitle: ''
    text: Ok, they are ugly. But they are originals ! The joystick has 8 directions and there is a fire button. But the special feature is the knob at the top of the stick to play pong or breakout games. And this means that the Hector have analogic/numeric convertors and that it's possible to conceive very interesting devices.
    image: /media/museum/hardware/joystick.jpg
  screenshots:
  - title: ASTEROIDES
    subtitle: Surely an asteroid clone
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_asteroides.gif
  - title: BASE SPATIALE
    subtitle: A space game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_base_spatiale.gif
  - title: CHESS
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_chess.gif
  - title: CONCENTRATION
    subtitle: A classic memory game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_concentration.gif
  - title: LE DONJON HANTÉ
    subtitle: An adventure game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_donjon_hante.gif
  - title: GLOUTON
    subtitle: A pac-man clone
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_glouton.gif
  - title: HIBOU TAQUIN
    subtitle: A memory game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_hibou_taquin.gif
  - title: SOUS-MARINS
    subtitle: A classic submarine game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_sousmarins.gif
  - title: LE BAROUDEUR
    subtitle: Sounds like a Dungeon & Dragon type game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_baroudeur.gif
  - title: BOMBARDEMENT
    subtitle: Apparently you must destroy buildings
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_bombardement.gif
  - title: COMBAT
    subtitle: Classic game...
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_combat.gif
  - title: CRAZY 8
    subtitle: A card game ?
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_crazy8.gif
  - title: LES ENVAHISSEURS
    subtitle: A very playable space-invaders clone
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_envahisseurs.gif
  - title: GRENOUILLE
    subtitle: A Frogger clone
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_grenouille_2.gif
  - title: LE PENDU
    subtitle: A hangman game
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_pendu.gif
  emulators:
  - title: DCHector
    url: http://dchector.free.fr/
    platform: Windows
    text: Excellent Interact/Hector emulator !
  - title: MESS - Interact, Hector1, Victor, 2HR, 2HR+, HRX, MX40, MX80
    url: HTTP://WWW.MESS.ORG/
    platform: Multiplatform
    text: All machines are emulated since 0.136 and Disc2 until 0.141 by Yo_Fr
  links:
  - title: Hector - l'ordinateur français!
    url: http://hectorvictor.free.fr/
    text: French website dedicated to Hector / Victor Lambda computers
  related:
  - /museum/micronique-hector-hrx
  - /museum/micronique-hector-mx
  - /museum/micronique-victor-hector-1
  - /museum/micronique-victor-hector-2hr-2hr
  oc_id: 151
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609144115/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=151
    date: '2023-06-09'
---

The Victor Lambda is in fact an american computer : the [Interact](/museum/interact-home-computer-system/).

A french company (based in Toulouse), Lambda Systemes, bought the rights to sell the system in France under its own name in 1980. The Victor Lambda was born...

If you got tapes for the Interact or Victor Lambda (or Hector/Victor), please contact us. We are trying to save all programs released for this computer before there are lost forever.

<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>