Chapter 346: Networking

It is also a modular software design, which starts from the most basic software main framework, and then goes further to do professional module design.

However, such as 3D CAD software, due to the face of too many different kinds of customer needs, it is obviously impossible to rely on developers to improve all the design, so it is also necessary to open up the secondary development function.

The so-called secondary development is to open part of the interface, allowing customers to develop professional modules that are more suitable for their own fields in accordance with the format specified in the software.

Only by fully mobilizing the masses and giving the masses the opportunity to develop various plug-ins according to their needs, when these routines are systematized, developers even need to visit customers on time, collect plug-ins developed by customers, and give customers some benefits, so that developers can justifiably use these customer-developed plug-ins as software upgrade content.

Doesn't it sound like a scoundrel, doesn't it feel like a genius?

That's right, this is the routine of European and American genuine software developers, anyway, it is to change all kinds of tricks to make customers happily slaughtered.

As a customer, although he knows this routine, he is willing to go to the routine, Wang Zhengguo had many classmates engaged in this line of work back then, which can be described as love and hate, and now there is an opportunity to operate this model first, he will definitely not be soft.

After all, the benefits of CAD software to users are far greater than the investment, so there is no need to have any soft-heartedness in this regard, this thing is not software for the public to use.

The developer conference was undoubtedly a success, and even two more days were added to the previous plan, and Yang Yong also received more than 40 project investment projects from application software developers, and the software types involved various aspects, but it can be seen that these are all software graphics in the previous DOS system era, and there is no major change in functionality.

The Xeon computer networking interface function that Wang Zhengguo is most interested in has not been paid attention to by any developers this time, they just think that this thing is a simple document printing interface, and no one has thought of the Internet concept at all.

Seeing that Yaoguang Electronics has successfully digested the Cisco router technology, and the Rongcheng government office network interconnection plan has been successfully built, but if no one develops various application software for it, this will naturally be a little too boring.

However, Wang Zhengguo doesn't want to get the Internet software out too early, but this time based on Cisco technology digestion, technicians have made a great technological breakthrough in building a small area network, and the network transmission speed has been greatly improved.

At present, the data transmission speed of the LAN has been improved, and some networking operations that can operate on the LAN can be put on the agenda, and the game network battle can finally see the light of day.

As a 21st century networm, the days without online games are boring and boring, and Wang Zhengguo can't wait to make online games.

Anyway, he has now broken through the bottom line of not developing games, so he will simply come to a wave of ruthlessness, with the current hardware technology, it is definitely impossible to make 3D games such as "Half-Life" and "Counter-Strike", but the time to develop 2D games is relatively mature.

And to say that the famous 2D computer games, and developed in the eighties and nineties, can ensure the smooth operation of computers of this level of Xeon, in fact, the range of choices is not large.

At the end of the day, we had to focus on Red Alert, and the reason why we paid attention to it was that it was a real-time strategy game, and many aspects could be cut without affecting the game experience too much.

The Red Alert 1 hardware requirements launched in '96 were at a medium level at the time, almost the top hardware requirements of the early '90s, and if some of the designs were reduced, maybe they could run on Xeon.

The image quality is reduced, the game combat units are reduced, the maximum support for eight players to play online directly cut to two or three battle levels, and the game character selection is reduced to six, so as to ensure that the game size is greatly reduced and the CPU burden requirements can also be reduced.

It shouldn't be a problem to run the simplified Red Alert with a top-of-the-line PC configuration from the mid-to-late 80s, and the greatest fun of real-time strategy games is the online battle, for which you can completely sacrifice the game quality, effects, etc.

Taizu said: "Fighting with the sky is infinitely fun, and fighting with people is infinitely fun!"

The online battle is to turn the past video games and predetermined program level fights into fights with people, which is naturally fun to imagine, just as the ABC-PC system will enter the American market in the future, Wang Zhengguo believes that this game can allow the Yankees to successfully experience the mysterious power from the East, that kind of unstoppable sourness.

In the face of Wang Zhengguo's request, the game developer is really a little difficult to digest, to say that he can't understand the essence of this game model, probably this previous experience in developing games for several years is in vain.

Now it's just a little skeptical about the LAN computer data exchange technology, before it was only clear that that thing can complete one-way data exchange, now it can be two-way data exchange in real time, and ensure game-level data service?

"Are you sure that Yaoguang Electronics can meet this in hardware at present, and ensure that the cost will not be too outrageous? After all, games need to be marketed to the mass consumer market, and even I have been worried that the price of Xeon series computers is too high, and I am afraid that few people will buy it for entertainment. ”

As a game developer, I am very clear about the current consumer market, if it is the hardware demand of one or two thousand yuan for Yaoguang computer, maybe those rich families will grit their teeth and consume it, but if it is a top-level computer product like Xeon that costs tens of thousands, I am afraid that in terms of the current domestic consumer market, there are really not many people who can grit this tooth ruthlessly.

A computer with a price of tens of thousands, which is equivalent to a million-level luxury car after 2000, ordinary people grit their teeth and get a grocery shopping car is reasonable, but if you want millions of luxury cars, then think about it, forget it, it's completely unreliable.

"You can rest assured, as long as you can develop computer games according to my requirements, without Yaoguang Electronics, I can personally guarantee that you will have at least tens of thousands of game sales, and even sign an order for you now, you don't have to worry about the market at all." ”

As long as the game is developed according to Wang Zhengguo's requirements, can this still make it a loss?

In the plan, in order to promote the popularization of computers to the masses, a huge project that has been in the dust for a long time has not yet had a chance to start, and this time it is just right!