In Union City, in the southeast of the Bay Area in the San Francisco Bay Area, Li Xuan spent an afternoon at the computer park franchise store, and the store manager Jamie was playing gameBoy handheld in the store. Since Dongfang Electronics acquired the computer park company, the gameBoy handheld computer was quickly put on the counters of various branches.

"Hey, can I buy copies of Tank Wars and Hong Kong Cubes here?"

Rost confirmed that the store's sign was "Computer Garden" outside the door, and then pushed the door and walked in and asked. He is a game fan, and he really likes the new arcade game "Tank Wars" at the beginning of this year, but there is no place to play pick-up near his home, and he needs to drive out to play every time, which is very inconvenient.

Yesterday he stumbled upon a newspaper report, "Popular Arcade Games &> Tank Battles & &1t; Hong Kong Wars > PC Copy Deng 6 American". From the report, he learned that copies of the two games could be purchased at the computer park store. So he drove for nearly half an hour today, and finally found Jamie's store to buy a copy of the game.

"Yes, copies of these two games are available in our Computer Park store!" replied Jamie with a smile, as there are a lot of fans who come to his store every day these days.

"Yes! Give me a copy of each!" Rost decided to buy the disc without even asking the price.

"Sorry sir, do you have an aBc computer at home?" Jamie asked rhetorically instead of rushing to get a copy of the game for the customer.

"Aikang's aBc computer?" Rost shook his head, "No, I already have an Apple computer!"

Jamie spread his hands and smiled wryly, "Then I'm sorry, sir! Copies of the two games, "Hong Kong Cubes" and "Tank Wars", can only run on the east-dos operating system of aBc computers. If you don't buy an aBc computer, even if you buy a copy of the game, it won't work on your Mac!"

"Fuck! Whose idea is this, it's disgusting!" the young man immediately yelled at Jamie's explanation.

Jamie didn't hear it, almost every customer who came to buy the game disc couldn't help but curse a few words after hearing this result, he was used to it.

"Why don't you buy a gameBoy console? There's also a game of "Hong Kong Cubes" on it, I just played it, and this handheld game console is very small and lightweight, you can put it in your pocket and carry it around, which is very convenient!" Jamie raised the gameBoy handheld in his hand and immediately promoted it.

"Are these two games really only running on aBc computers?" Rost asked again.

"Yes, they all only run on the east-dos operating system, which is proprietary to aBc computers. East-DOS is compatible with CP/M, but CP/M is not compatible with East-DOS. So the software on other cp/m systems can be used on aBc computers, but the software on aBc computers cannot be run on other computers!" Jamie explained in detail.

"Is this the aBc computer from Aikang?" Rost asked, pointing to a black computer with sleek lines.

"Well, yes, this is a basic aBc-1!" Jamie said with a nod to the customer.

"Can you open it up and give it to me, if it's really good, I'll buy another one and give my old Apple computer to my brother Wynne!" Rost said after a moment's thought.

With the purpose of buying a copy of the game, Jamie has already met several customers who came home to buy an aBc computer!

But he just likes such wayward customers, so Jamie happily starts the aBc prototype on the counter and starts to show Rost some basic operations. Then I took a floppy disk of "Tank Wars", put it in the floppy drive of the case, and opened it to enter the game program.

The key-1o2 keyboard of the aBc computer can be set to a two-player game mode, one person uses the arrow keys, and the other person uses the four keys ", s, a, d" to control the direction of zhì up, down, left and right. These were the most common settings in later computers, but in 198o they were a very nice innovation. Because before the Key-1O2 keyboard came out, most keyboards on the market didn't even have the concept of arrow keys.

The two happily collaborated on a tank battle, and playing games together was a great way to communicate feelings. Jamie took the opportunity to continuously educate his customers on the benefits of this aBc computer.

"Dad, this game is so fun, I want to play it too!" I don't know when there will be another father and son customer in the store. Jamie hurriedly leaves the computer and says hello to the new guest.

"Can I let my son try it out too?" the father asked Jamie as he looked at his son's eager expression.

"Of course, sir, no problem!" Jamie smiled and nodded, then said hello to Rost and began to teach the little customer how to operate the game.

Twenty minutes later, Jamie happily saw off the two groups of customers, and the store added two more aBc-1 computers to today's sales list. These days, his store is mainly promoting the aBc computer of Aikang, and the original Apple's app1e computer has long been moved to an inconspicuous corner.

It is said that Aikang Computer Company and Computer Park Company are the same behind-the-scenes boss, but these have little to do with franchise stores like Jamie. All they know is that according to the company's policy, it is more profitable to sell an aBc computer than to sell an app1e computer. As a result, Jamie has been going all out lately to promote Akon to customers; Since August 1, aBc computers have been entering the counters of large and small computer sales companies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Along with the computer, there is also a series of useful software. For example, the previous arcade games "Hong Kong Cubes" and "Tank Battles", as well as the computer game version of "PANET", which has just entered the North American market.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the year, when the arcade machines of "Hong Kong Cube" and "Tank Wars" had just become popular in the American market, Dongfang Electronics had received offers from many American game companies to buy the copyright of two game computers, but all of them were rejected by Li Xuan.

The legal department of Dongfang Electronics Company has been keeping a close eye on the US computer game market for half a year, and as soon as other companies infringe on "Hong Kong Square" and "Tank Wars", they will immediately send a sternly worded lawyer's letter to the other party. If the other party still doesn't converge, just see you directly in the law.

For this reason, the legal department of Dongfang Electronics has sued three small American software companies in court in the past six months, and the legal fees have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. And this has also caused American computer game fans to be extremely enthusiastic about "Hong Kong Cubes" and "Tank Wars", two games that have not been released on the 6-PC platform for a long time.

As a result, relying on the huge popularity accumulated by the arcade versions of the two games, the computer copies of "Hong Kong Side" and "Tank Wars" instantly detonated the enthusiasm of players as soon as they were released. After all, when you go to a grocery store or a small store to play arcade, how can you play comfortably and worry-free on your own home computer.

However, the copies of the two games, "Hong Kong Cubes" and "Tank Wars", can only run on aBc computers of Aikang, which makes countless players who are ready to buy game disks frustrated.

In the future, Dongfang Electronics will naturally launch copies of games based on other operating systems, but that will be a few months later. At least for now, the only way to play both games on a PC for the first time is to buy an aBnetbsp; As a result, Jamie has been meeting customers like Rost who buy aBc computers to play games. Of course, it is a minority for someone like Rost who already has an app1e computer and buys another aBc computer after all. What Li Xuan really wants to win over are those customers who happen to be ready to buy computers.

For example, the father and son who bought an aBc computer with Rost, maybe they didn't have a clear preference before, but decided to choose aBnetbsp because of these two games; ps:The new week has started again.,Szki kneels down and begs for a recommendation vote!Everyone has a ticket, please smash it to Szinky.,I didn't forget the two chapters of 22oo and 24oo that I owe before.,I'll do my best to make up for it!

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