In Union City, in the southeast of the Bay Area of 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 titled "Desktop copies of the popular arcade games Tank Wars> and Hong Kong Wars > landed in the United States." 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, not rushing to get a copy of the game for the customer.

"ABC computers from Aikang?" Rost shook his head, "No, I already have an Apple computer!"

Jamie spread his hands and smiled bitterly and said, "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 the ABC computer. If you don't buy an abc, even if you buy a copy of the game, it won't work on your Mac!"

"Whose idea is this, it's disgusting!" The young man immediately scolded after listening to 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 was playing it just now, 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.

"Do these two games really only work on ABC computers?" Rost asked again.

"Yes, they all only run on the ABC computer's proprietary East-DOS operating system. 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 the ABC computer, but the software on the ABC computer cannot be run on other computers!" Jamie explained in detail.

"Is this the ABC computer from Akon?" 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-102 keyboard of the ABC computer can be set to play in two-player mode, one person uses the arrow keys, and the other person uses the four keys "W, S, A, D" to control the direction of up, down, left and right. These were the most common settings in later computers, but in 1980 they were a very nice innovation. Because before the Key-102 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 various 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 two more ABC-1 computers were added to the store's sales list for today. These days, the main product in his store is the ABC computer of Aikang, and the original Apple computer of Apple 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 Apple computer. As a result, Jamie has been going all out to sell Icon's ABC computers to customers lately.

Since August 1, ABC computers have quickly entered 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", "Tank Wars", and the computer game version of "Pac-Man", 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.

For half a year, the legal department of Dongfang Electronics Company has been keeping a close eye on the US computer game market, and as soon as it discovers that other companies have infringed on "Hong Kong Cube" and "Tank Wars", it 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 landed on personal computer platforms 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 two copies of "Hong Kong Cubes" and "Tank Wars" can only run on IC computers of Akon, 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 ABC computer.

As a result, Jamie has been meeting customers like Rost who buy ABC computers to play games. Of course, it is a minority to have an Apple computer and buy an 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 the ABC computer 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 2200、2400 chapters I owe before.,I'll do my best to make up for it!