Chapter 8: The Gourd Brothers and the Great Wall Cube

While installing the game console, Wu Mingbian chatted with Gu Tianle and Gu Tianyin brothers.

"Brother Ming, you really drew a comic, what is the content of the story, is it good-looking!" Brother Gu Tianle asked first.

Wu Mingxiu raised his eyebrows, and then replied confidently: "Of course my drawings are good-looking, and when I finish playing the game, I will show you the "Hulu Brothers" I painted, and see how good I am." ”

Hearing the conversation between his brother and Wu Ming, his younger brother Gu Tianyin pouted, and then said loudly with admiration: "Brother Ming, you are really good, you can do anything, you can draw comics at such a young age." ”

"Of course, I'm a genius!" Wu Ming saw Gu Tianyin's adoring expression, he was in a very comfortable mood and replied happily.

After some time.

Gu Tian Le and Gu Tian Yin's little faces were full of depressed expressions, and the two brothers watched Wu Ming plug in the game cartridge for a while, and then played for a few minutes.

The longest time I played was the childhood memories of the post-80s and 90s, and I didn't know what it was like to play until I died, but I couldn't play it after five minutes. After several times in a row, Wu Ming finally turned off the TV directly, unplugged the interface of the game console, and then played for less than half an hour.

It's no wonder, after all, after being accustomed to seeing the big productions of later generations, Wu Ming has no interest in the game when the world first opened. Although I bought it back to study it in order to investigate the market, I felt too bored after playing for half an hour, and Wu Ming wanted to vomit when I played.

The brothers Gu Tianle and Gu Tianyin looked at Wu Ming pitifully, and said aggrievedly: "Brother Ming, why don't you play, you haven't even arrived for half an hour." ”

"Don't play anymore, what a garbage game, it's too boring, I'll take you to play a fun game, see the game I developed. Looking at the pitiful expressions of the Gu family brothers, Wu Ming couldn't help but smile and replied. Then he pulled the Gu brothers to pack up the game console and game controller, and the Gu brothers had no choice but to help.

As soon as she entered Wu Ming's room, you could see that Zhu Yin's little girl was sitting on the bed chattering with Zhou Huimin, and if you listened carefully, you could hear what Brother Ming was talking about, obviously Zhu Yin's little girl was brainwashing Zhou Huimin's classmate for her brother Ming.

"Brother Ming, why don't you play. After discovering that her brother Ming came in, the little girl Zhu Yin asked in a milky voice. Zhou Huimin also looked at Wu Ming and the three of them with the same curiosity.

Gu Tianle replied first: "Brother Ming said that those games are not fun, and he wants to take us to play the new games he developed." ”

Wu Ming also nodded in agreement, walked to the bed and scratched the nose of Zhu Yin's little girl, and then said to Zhou Huimin: "How about it, I can draw okay." Then he paused and said, "But I've only drawn the first word, and a lot of things haven't been drawn, and the wonderful part won't come out until later." ”

"It's really okay, it's not the same as the comics on the market in Hong Kong now. How to say it, it's the style of painting that Teacher Liu Hong said. Your comics don't have the same style as them, and they're not as violent as those comics. Zhou Huimin thought about it, looked at Wu Ming's expression and commented seriously.

Wu Ming was very recognized when he heard this comment, and replied with a grin: "Of course, I have also read those comics on the market, although some of the plots are okay, but they are too simple, most of them are fighting comics, too violent." It's far worse than RB comics, and some of the pictures are very abstract and I don't know what I'm talking about. My painting style is the style of painting in the mainland, and of course you feel fresh. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that, I'll talk about it when I draw a little more and save it for you to see, and I'll take you to play the game I developed. After talking for a while, Wu Ming took the initiative to stop the topic, after all, the Gu brothers next to him were still watching with blank eyes.

Wu Ming walked to the computer desk, sat down on the chair, and then turned on the switch of the apple II and began to wait quietly for the computer to turn on. In later generations, many Chinese people may not have heard of Apple II, and only those engaged in the computer industry will know about this information.

But in this era, the Apple II can be said to refresh people's old ideas. In the past, people thought that computers were bulky business items that would require an entire large room to fit. It wasn't until the Apple II appeared in the eyes of the people that a new concept of personal computing was created in the public mind.

That's why in 1981, IBM launched the first desktop computer model PC, and personal computers have since become a household for thousands of people.

Most people don't know that Apple II is actually a product of Apple, and almost all Chinese people in later generations have heard of the famous Apple, but Apple is famous for selling digital music players iPod in the impression of most people, and then developed the smartphone iPhone and became the overlord of the mobile phone industry.

In fact, Apple still has a glorious past.

Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and RonWayn on April 1, 1976. In 1977, Apple received its first investment of $92,000. and the Apple II was introduced at the first Computex West Coast, which became the first personal computer in human history.

On December 12, 1980, Apple went public, and in less than an hour, all 4.6 million shares were snapped up, and Apple's top management instantly produced 4 billionaires and more than 40 millionaires.

It was only later that Apple had internal strife and revoked Jobs's management power, and then the Windows 95 system was born, and the market share of Apple computers plummeted, and then slowly declined. It wasn't until 1997 that Steve Jobs returned to Apple as chairman that he began to re-emerge.

Wu Ming was busy on the keyboard and finally opened the game, you must know that the computer operating system at this time is not like the future operating system has a graphical user interface, some are just a command line interface. That is, the interface that shows rows of English letters when the computer is just turned on in our later generations.

Think of a computer that doesn't have any shortcut icons, no task windows, and no mouse. Just the rows of English letters feel terrifying. In this operating system, the user can only enter instructions through the keyboard, and the computer receives the instructions and executes them.

Fortunately, Wu Mingfu is a programming ape in this life, and he is familiar with this aspect, and he is super talented in this life, so he can quickly adapt to this operating system.

After opening the game, Wu Ming spoke: "My game is called the Great Wall Block, now I'll show you how to play it." ”

The "Great Wall Cube" in Wu Ming's mouth is Tetris, which will be popular all over the world in the future and has 9 Guinness World Records, including the most downloaded games from mobile phones, the most ported games, and so on.

The game has been voted one of the most classic games in several selections, and some magazines have even called it the greatest game out there, but there is no one of them. Originally, the game was supposed to be invented in June 1984 by Pakitnov, a mathematician working at the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

But Wu Ming knows very well that the father of Tetris will not get much benefit from it in the future, and it is Nintendo that has benefited the most from Tetris. And Nintendo is Wu Mingxin's imaginary opponent and future enemy. So Wu Ming took Tetris as his own with peace of mind, and renamed it "Great Wall Diamond", which was called "Great Wall Diamond" in English.

The development of the Great Wall Cubes was not all smooth sailing, although Wu Ming was a programming ape of the game company in later life, and probably remembered some Tetris program code. However, those program codes were developed by later generations of programmers, and the programming ability of later generations of programmers was much worse than that of programmers of this era.

In later generations, not to mention that the memory of computers is measured in "G", even the operating memory of smartphones has been expanded from the earlier 128M and 256M to the standard 3G/4G.

It can be said that the programming apes of later generations have no memory limit at all, and they can squander as much as they want. Therefore, the codes that Wu Ming remembered were relatively cumbersome, complex and not concise enough.

In this era, the Apple II only has 4 KB of RAM, and the Atari 2600 has only 2 KB of RAM, which is a million times the difference. Wu Ming can only run on the computer after optimizing and optimizing those cumbersome and complex program codes.

Fortunately, in this life, Wu Ming has a super talent because of his rebirth, and after studying with several university teachers for a period of time, he became a perfect teacher and successfully optimized Tetris.

Zhu Yin's little girl watched as with the divine operation of Wu Ming's hands, several Great Wall squares on the computer screen fell rapidly, and then at the bottom of the screen, a row of blocks was successfully eliminated, and the number of the scoreboard on one side was also increasing.

Finally couldn't help it, pushed Wu Ming coquettishly and said: "Brother Ming, your game is so fun, come down quickly, let me play, okay!" It seems that the charm of the Great Wall cube has successfully attracted the little girl Zhu Yin.

Gu Tianle couldn't help but say excitedly: "Brother Ming, the game you invented is so fun, it's amazing." ”

"Yes, Brother Ming, you really didn't lie to us. Gu Tianyin also agreed when he heard his brother's words.

Even Zhou Huimin, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but nod in agreement, even she was attracted by success, isn't this game fun?

Looking at the big guy's impatience, Wu Ming smiled proudly, and didn't embarrass Zhu Yin's little girl, stood up and said, "Little girl, you play first." ”

Zhu Yin's little girl, who couldn't bear it for a long time, heard Wu Ming say this, and couldn't wait to push Wu Ming away and sit on the chair, and played with the Great Wall square with both hands left and right.

Wu Ming also laughed when he saw this, ignored it anymore, and walked out of the room alone to the living room to drink water.