Chapter 83: The Beginning of the Great Change (22)
It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon when he came out of Jiang Jingfeng's side, Liang Yuan didn't run in vain this trip, Jiang Jingfeng really made a big surprise.
Although compared to the 1990s, 3D is a high-end and high-grade thing, but if the requirements for resolution and image quality are not high, it is not particularly difficult to achieve from a technical point of view.
However, the biggest difference between this era and later generations is that there is no graphics card, and those responsible for processing graphics data are often called PPUs in the industry, which is basically the peripheral processor of the system.
The birth of this thing has a lot to do with the lack of CPU performance, and there are few examples of computers in the early 90s where a single processor core is responsible for the entire system operation, and computer systems are almost always composed of multiprocessor subsystems.
For example, the coprocessor, such as the Hanka that was popular at this time, is a Chinese character processor in the system that specializes in performing input, output and other operations, and has the ability to process data in parallel with the host.
The function of PPU in the system is similar to that of Hanka, and it is mainly responsible for the calculation and output of graphics data in the system.
Don't look at the pet egg is not big, but in terms of system composition, it is even more complex than the Chinese character pager, a C2 processor is responsible for the entire system operation, and a graphic PPU by the C2 processor variant - Col2 is responsible for the graphic output of the pet egg.
The main frequency of the Hong Kong-based collector C2 processor jumps from 16MHz, up to 22MHz, which is a performance monster in the 286-level chip, but the pet egg is selected as the main processor for problems such as power cost and other issues, and the main frequency of the graphics processor Col2 is selected as 20MHz.
Now is not comparable to the era of the future processor core theory G, don't look at the data of the two inconspicuous, the data of the processor and graphics processor have already beaten Nintendo and Sega.
A year and a half later, the core of the Super Nintendo main processor is less than 8MHz, but the graphics processor is similar to the pet egg, which is the main frequency of 20MHz, but as a typical home console, Super Ren has four graphics PPU, which is not comparable to the pet egg.
Of course, the high frequency and fast computing speed are not without sequelae, and the biggest consequence of using high frequency for pet eggs is the lack of battery life.
Limited by the egg space, the pet egg itself is powered by a No. 5 battery, if it is just a pet, do it to feed and feed the water to appease the pet to spoil the daily life or something, a battery can last for three days, if it is used as a game console to play a battery that battery life is a bit hehe, it is best to match the battery box This peripheral can have fun.
If it weren't for Liang Yuan's big thoughts on the battle, a separate graphics processor would be almost unnecessary in terms of pet egg cultivation factors.
But with this separate graphics processor,After the pet egg adapts to the interface converter,You can smoothly output images on the TV without being limited to the function of the card to death,The function of external display output is almost necessary for regular large-scale competitive competitions。
Whether it's Sega or Nintendo, no one has ever developed a console that can only run one game in this era, and this idea is a mental idea in the eyes of normal people.
As for video game competition or something, it's just a joke, and it's almost something that doesn't even have a concept, except for Liang Tuhao, no one will make such a strange thing.
The overperformance of the pet egg hardware makes Jiang Jingfeng's 2D+3D plan extremely successful, limited to time, Jiang Jingfeng only chose three characters to make the battle ring link 3D, verifying that his idea is possible, but in Liang Yuan's view, the implementation of the 3D version is already a matter of course.
Normal game consoles want to implement 3D, must have universality, such as racing, RPG, jerking off or something must be taken into account, development tools should also be easy to use, preferably a simple C language, etc., but pet eggs don't need to think so much, anyway, a game development language is directly assembled, and then optimized for the code from the hardware level, what chemical changes will this produce?
The first Sony PS with 3D performance was officially released at the end of 1994, and the main chip used in the PS was the famous 32-bit RISC processor:
MIPS—R3000A—33.8688 MHz。
Sony's PS game console development plan began at the end of the eighties, the processor selected the latest model of the American MIPS company at that time, in addition to the use of 1.5 micron process technology production, the performance of this MIPS processor and the C3 processor that has just come off the assembly line of the Hong Kong base collector is the same as the same level.
The processor used in the pet egg happens to be C3C2 at the upper level, after using the most concise machine language programming and optimization, Liang Yuan judged from the experimental program run by Jiang Jingfeng that if the elf pet is 3D, this game can reach 80% of the PS visual effects when it is output to TV, which means that Liang Yuan can lead global players into the 3D era five years in advance.
This shock is absolutely subversive, and the game of Elf Pet is equivalent to pulling gamers around the world directly from the 8-bit era to the 32-bit era.
Liang Yuan decided at that time that only the RPG content would remain in the 2D version, and the two pieces of content, the ring and the cultivation, would be reversed and changed to 3D, and Jiang Jingfeng would ask people to give money to people, and strive to get it within a month.
Fortunately, the core of the battle game is data balance, as long as the artists and programmers are sufficient, gritting their teeth and changing the texture can still be completed in a month.
After spending a little more time in the pet egg project team, Liang Yuan walked along the lakeside path to the main entrance of the Affiliated Primary School of Dongda just in time to ring the bell after school.
Listening to the wide music and electronic ringtones of a big river, Liang Yuan pondered if the bells of the electronic imitation science and technology park attached to the elementary school were replaced with happy birthdays, and he didn't know what the expressions of the two girls would be when they heard it.
Before the students could get out of school, the little doorman came out of the guard room with a hammer.
Liang Yuan watched across the road as the doorman wielded a hammer and divided five by two, and directly knocked down the white door sign with four big characters hanging on the doorpost.
What is this for, but what's the matter?Liang Yuan watched with some confusion as the big brother of the guard dragged the demolished door number into the guard room.
"What's going on?"
Since he often comes to pick up two girls, someone and the little doorman are already quite familiar.
"Yo, when did Xiaoyuan come over? I didn't even see it, why don't you come in and wait for someone." ”
Since Liang Yuan and a certain girl teamed up at the school gate to beat up the influential people in the attached elementary school, and then they were safe and sound, and now the one who was beaten now sees Liang Yuan either taking a detour or pretending not to know and leaving without raising his head, the doorman knows that this person is not small.
"As soon as I arrived, I saw you on the other side of the road tearing down the door number and being reprimanded by the leader for retaliation against this?"
Liang Yuan smiled and pointed to the small door number on the ground.
"I didn't have a leader to say how dare I dismantle this, I called to dismantle it, this time the school leaders are going to laugh crookedly, just informed me on the phone that the attached primary school was successfully upgraded, and it was later renamed Dongda High School. ”