In order to better develop arcade products, a total of 7 people from the new venture electronics company directly rented a warehouse on Apliu Street and used it as a laboratory. The entire Apliu Street has become a spare parts warehouse for product research and development www.biquge.info

After a month of continuous research and development, the arcade machine finally has an eyebrow, because, the game "Chinese Cube" is relatively simple and does not require too complicated circuit diagram design.

Actually, Gao Tian doesn't know much about arcade design, but since the game "Chinese Cube" is too simple, don't take the design too seriously.

In order to rush the work, Gaotian's circuit diagram borrowed a part of the Apple II, and the CPU was also MOS6502.

There is no peripheral keyboard for computers, but instead uses the joysticks and keys of arcade machines. But at the end of the day, it's still a microcomputer in arcade skin, and there's a suspicion of plagiarism from the Apple II.

"Borrowing from this thing, how can it be said to be plagiarism. Gao Tian blushed and defended, "You are a filthy and innocent ......"

Lin Qi couldn't help but laugh, a few months ago, he seriously despised plagiarism and copycats, but now, Gao Tian is secretly "borrowing"!

Yes, borrowing is not plagiarism...... Just learning and paying tribute......

The reason why I pay tribute to the Apple II is also because this machine is currently the most mature, popular, and the largest road design scheme in the world.

The Apple II was Apple's first industrially mass-produced computer and the most successful computer since Apple's founding, and it was originally planned to be discontinued in 80. But then Apple launched a number of more technologically advanced computers, but it still couldn't make up for the continuous losses. The Apple II, which was mainly sold in conjunction with typewriters, was long-lasting, so this rather classic machine was sold until 1993 before it was officially discontinued.

It seems that after Apple discontinued the production of the Apple II, there were still people in China who improved the Apple II as a prototype and made it into a learning machine, well, it can learn computers and ...... The kind of learning machine that plays games sells for a few hundred yuan a piece, and hundreds of thousands of units a year. This kind of hot sales is second only to Xiaobawang.

As for Xiaobawang, it is a copycat FC, because the game console was shouted and killed by parents and education experts, so it was also made into a learning machine.

Those learning machines in the 90s, the cartridges all had some basic programming software and software to practice typing. It's a pity that basically they sell dog meat on sheep's heads and buy them back, and few of them use this thing to learn computers.

The Apple II, which came out in the 70s, was active until the 90s, which can be described as a generation of miracle machines!

Of course, AppleII is not the most godly, the real god is MOS6502, this CPU on the market in 75 years, because of its cheapness, was adopted by Apple, and it was developed as a basis for AppleII!

It is precisely because of the amazing performance of the Apple II after its launch that this classic chip has begun to be favored by the computer industry and the game industry.

Nintendo's later FC red and white machine also uses 6502!

The Apple II can later be transformed into a learning machine that can play games by Chinese copycat manufacturers, and the Xiaobawang, which imitates FC, can also be transformed into a game machine that can learn.

It can be seen that the 6502 chip is very related to the game industry.

Identified the 6502 chip, so that the arcade project of the new venture electronics is not dangerous. Although, a lot of R&D costs were spent, and a bunch of parts were scrapped. The progress of the project is still quite amazing!

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March 1980.

After a month and a half, day and night research and development, even, the Chinese New Year only had one day off, and the next day I came back to continue working.

The game console equipped with "Chinese Cubes" is finally done!

"It's a success!" The R&D team of Xinchuang Electronics let out a burst of cheers.

There is a simple prototype in front of me, which is similar to the enlarged version of the GB, except that the directional operation is a joystick, not a cross key, and there is only a round button next to the joystick, which is very simple in design.

The joystick is to operate the block to move or accelerate downward. As for the circular buttons, they deform when the block falls in mid-air.

The game's screen is a picture tube of a black-and-white TV.

In addition, there are rudimentary speakers that allow players to make sounds when operating "Chinese Cubes", which increases the sense of participation in the game.

Lin Qi tried to play for more than ten minutes, which was basically the same as the Tetris he had used before, and if there was any difference, it was that Lin Qi had not played Tetris on an arcade platform!

The whole team took turns on the machine, and everyone was immersed in the game.

"Boss, this arcade machine must have a future, the game "Chinese Cube" is very interesting, and the creativity is unprecedented, it will definitely be able to make money!" Liu Zhendong said.

Lin Qi nodded and said: "Everyone has worked hard, the project is completed! I also count, from this month, Gao Tian's monthly salary is 20,000 yuan, the company's chief technical consultant, and all kinds of R&D project teams of the entire company are under your leadership, and you have the right to review R&D projects, and small creative projects with R&D expenses of less than 50,000 yuan, without my consent, Gao Tian can approve and sign." ”

"Wait......" Gao Tian said with a twist, "the third test has passed! Then, it's time for me to resign!"

"What??," Lin Qi couldn't help but be surprised, "Why?"

"That...... At the job fair, I swore that I would give the boss a look on your face so that you would not be so arrogant...... Therefore, it was planned at that time, let the boss show me what I can do, and Corporal Lixian retained it, and then, I proudly refused the high salary and left categorically. This script ...... It's so beautiful, I wake up laughing when I dream at night......" Gao Tian said a little hesitantly.

"What about now?The arcade project has achieved phased success, and you are complacent about making such a toy-like thing?" Lin Qi shook his head and said, "I misread you! I also think you will be a little arrogant, at least, after launching a product that shakes the world, and after the entire industry is famous, you will release a resignation press conference that shakes the world." Now, you're gone, what's the point? Who in the world cares about you as a nobody?"

"Don't say it, I want to stay!" Gao Tian said hesitantly.

"Mr. Gao, stay! Technically, we will obey you!" other employees persuaded one after another.

"Stay!" Lin Qi said, "If you want to prove it, it's not for me to see! If you show it to the world, at least, you can be on an equal footing with Jobs, that's really great!"

In Lin Qi's stay, Gao Tian, who didn't really want to go, stayed squirmed.

Of course, he said that when the company develops to be better than Apple in the future, he will leave no matter how much he wants to keep it......

For Gao Tian's statement, everyone present was amused.

Of course, Lin Qi readily agreed: "If you still want to leave at that time, I will definitely approve it!"

In fact, Lin Qi couldn't help but curse in his heart, sluts are hypocritical, when it comes to that time, see if you are reluctant to leave!