"BOSS, this is a new newspaper today, you see. As soon as Billy entered the house, he waved the newspaper in his hand and shouted to Jack.

Li Yixuan has no habit of reading newspapers, he always feels that the content of the newspaper is too far away from him, he has no heart to care about national affairs, if it is entertainment gossip news, just look at it on the Internet, there is no need to buy newspapers to read. Billy and Jack knew about this habit, but seeing that Billy solemnly told him to read the newspaper, something big must have happened.

The first article on the front page of Ming Pao, newly published today, is that a few days ago, Hong Kong Governor MacLehose went to BJ, and Deng met him at the Great Hall of the People and said that the Cultural Revolution is over and we must develop the economy. China could change dramatically.

This title shocked Li Yixuan unclearly, could it be that history has changed, Deng ascended the throne in advance, and changed it in advance?

After reading the whole article,, it turned out to be the title party, how to sensationalize and how to come, the whole article is speculation.

Li Yixuan was angry, and said to Billy: "In the future, I won't buy more newspapers like this." Flicked the newspaper in his hand, and couldn't help but say: "I didn't expect the famous "Ming Pao" to start a headline party. ”

"Billy, I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about the last page. ”

At the end, there was a self-advertisement advertisement from "Ming Pao", recruiting novel manuscripts, and the remuneration was lucrative.

Speechless asked Cangtian, I didn't expect this robot to have this hobby.

"You're not going to let me submit anything, are you?"

"Why not?" asked Billy rhetorically.

Li Yixuan was asked, and he really didn't know how to answer him for a while. He has read a lot of rebirth articles in Hong Kong, most of the time in the early 80s, and said that the first pot of gold for the protagonist to start a business in Hong Kong after coming to this world was to make a fortune by writing novels.

Later, someone retorted that it was impossible for the protagonist to start by writing novels, and that your manuscript was closed by the junior editor before it reached the editor-in-chief's desk. Because you are a newcomer, many famous authors have been gunmen for famous authors for many years in exchange for the opportunity to publish their work in newspapers. He also cited many celebrities in Hong Kong as examples.

Ni Kuang, one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, has been a gunman for Jin Yong for many years, and the most famous is the novel "Dragon Babu" You Tanzhi that paragraph was written by Ni Kuang, and later he directly wrote Ah Zi's eyes blind, and later Jin Yong spent countless brain cells to bring it back. Jin Daxia later said that Ni Kuang was deliberate, so from then on, Jin Yong opened a column for Ni Kuang in "Ming Pao" to publish his novels.

There is also an even more famous Gu Long, when he first submitted the manuscript to "Ming Pao", Gu Long's flat and straightforward writing style did not please Jin Yong, saying that his writing was too poor, so there was no need to use his manuscript. Later, after Ni Kuang found out, he sent Gu Long's manuscript to Shaw Brothers Film Company, which was taken by Run Run Shaw and made a movie, and then Ni Kuang took the opportunity to publish Gu Long's novel, and Gu Long became popular.

Therefore, it is impossible to cross the characters and make the first pot of gold from the novel.

It makes sense, Li Yixuan can't figure out whether it's true or false, after all, those time-traveling novels are the author's own YY, so Li Yixuan can't refute Billy's words.

After thinking about it carefully, I feel that this path is still feasible, not to mention whether you can become a rich man by writing novels, but once your novel is reported, it has a very practical benefit, that is, it can instantly improve your social status in Hong Kong, which is a benefit that money can't buy. The literati were very respected in any dynasty.

The more Li Yixuan thought about it, the more feasible he felt. If you mix the name of a writer, it will be much easier to do things in Hong Kong in the future.

Looking for that novel to copy, Li Yixuan can't write it by himself, the best way is to work as a copyist, and he found one.

But it's all simplified Chinese, and the traditional Chinese version doesn't have it, so you have to sort it out first.

It took a week for Li Yixuan to complete all the traditional characters. I used my mobile phone to keep the bottom line, and then took out a part, about 50,000 words, and sent it to "Ming Pao".

Writing novels can only improve his reputation, but he can't make any money. If people don't adopt it, just continue to restock?

Li Yixuan shook his head, he didn't have much interest in doing it for so long. Li Yixuan thinks it's a good note, the seventies and eighties were the period of electronic development, maybe in the future, there will be game giants like Nintendo.

Handheld,Li Yixuan directly no,CPU is easy to do,LCD screen is not easy to do,Now I use the most primitive NT LCD screen,Not to mention the price,The display effect can't meet his requirements at all。 The most important thing is that the basic patent of liquid crystal will not expire until 85 years, and it is too early to do this.

Game consoles, no, there are no overseas sales channels, and they will definitely die in the end.

Arcade machines are good at that time, and now is the golden age of arcade machines, if they are done well, Hong Kong alone can sell about 10,000 units a year.

After choosing it, he decided to finish Nangong Meng's "Tank Wars" as his first arcade game.

Speaking of "Tank Wars", many people will say that this is RB Nangong Dream Company released on the FC console in 1985, in fact, "Tank Wars" was released as early as 1980, but it was not called this name at that time, but "Tank Battalion", which was released by Nangong Dream in 1980 on an 8-bit MSX machine, which is the predecessor of "Tank Wars".

But it didn't get good sales at the time, and then it was redesigned and re-released in 1985 on the FC console, and it was a great success, with a total global sales of more than 500 sets, and it was one of Nangong Meng's successful works, which was later developed into a series and is one of Nangong Dream's golden signatures.

The first time the Chinese came into contact with "Tank Wars" was not a genuine version, but a cracked version made by a domestic Smoky Mountain Software Company.

Smoky Mountain Software did not simply copy, but made a lot of modifications to the original version, adding and adding some levels and settings. And we are playing the Smoky Mountain version of "Tank Battle", the most famous of which is "90 Tank Battle".

It's very funny here, after Smoky Mountain Software improved "Tank Wars", I felt that I should have the "copyright". In order to prevent other pirates from maliciously cracking copies, Yanshan Software added a bunch of easter eggs to the game, cracked some levels, and some numbers appeared. Those numbers are, in effect, the phone numbers of Smoky Mountain Software. Moreover, some text will also appear to let players know that Yanshan Software Company is the "genuine".

Later, piracy of "Tank Wars" was rampant, and tens of millions of cartridges of "Tank Wars" game cartridges were sold in the entire mainland market. However, the "genuine" version of "Tank Wars" cracked and improved by Smoky Mountain Software sold tens of thousands of boxes. And that's not all, this Smoky Mountain version of "Tank Wars" finally rushed to Asia and went to the world. In the end, I don't know how many boxes were sold, you must know that Nangong Meng's genuine "Tank Wars" alone sold 5 million boxes, which shows how popular this game is.

The game is chosen, and the motherboard is changed. Li Yixuan doesn't plan to make a motherboard specifically for "Tank Wars", it would be too costly, he plans to make a universal motherboard platform, and other 8-bit arcade games can use him as a platform in the future, maybe this motherboard platform can be sold to other game companies.

Li Yixuan decided to make a fuss about the FC game console released by Nintendo, changing the FC motherboard to an arcade motherboard.

FC console is Nintendo in 1983 released game console console, the United States alone sold more than 67 million units, Europe also sold more than 55 million units, other places do not know how much sold, 98 years Hong Kong's "Hong Kong Economic Journal" to do a survey, Hong Kong alone FC console sold a total of more than one million units, this is not counting the copycat FC.

The FC uses an 8-bit 6502 CPU made by Ricoh with 2KB of RAM and video memory. An image controller (PPU) that can display 64 colors, which can be regarded as the earliest GPU. Unfortunately, the memory is limited and can only display up to 16 colors. A programmable sound generator (PSG) provides 4 analog channels and 1 PCM digital channel, which provides continuous background sound.

Li Yixuan decided to change it and increase the video memory capacity to 4KB, which can display 32 colors. Everything else remains the same.

These parts will definitely not be sold in the future, and I don't know if they will be sold in Hong Kong. So Li Yixuan went to Yaliao Street.

Apliu Street is a famous electronic street in Hong Kong, and its status is like that of Shenzhen/Shenzhen, where in addition to military electronic components, all the civilian electronic parts you can think of can be found here.

The first thing to look at is the CPU, the 6502 is a processor released by MOS Technology in 1975, which is famous for Apple as the CPU of the Apple 2 and the processor of the FC.

Although it is an 8-bit processor, its addressing is 16-bit, the advantages are low power consumption, low cost, strong stability, and the disadvantages are obvious, slow speed, and few types of tasks that can be processed.

"Boss, do you have a 6502 processor?"

"Yes, which company is it from?"

After the design of MOS Technology 6502 came out, in order to raise funds for the construction of a chip factory, the design was licensed, and it could be produced as long as the patent fee was paid, and the licensing fee was only 3 million US dollars, RB Ricoh, Taiwan's VIA, etc. The price of 6502 produced by different manufacturers is also different.

"How much does MOS Technology cost?"

"180 Hong Kong dollars. ”

"Where's RB Ricoh?"

“150。 ”

"What about Taiwan?"

“120。 ”

"That's it. ”

After purchasing all the spare parts, Li Yixuan calculated that he spent a total of 2,800 Hong Kong dollars. In fact, he didn't need so much money, mainly because he only purchased 2 CPUs, and more of them purchased a lot of memory chips, including those from the United States and RB.

The biggest difference between an arcade motherboard and an FC motherboard is that there are neat rows of chips on it, except for a CPU, most of them are DRAM memory chips, and the more exquisite the game, the more content there is, the more memory chips are needed.

Li Yixuan's design treatment of the motherboard is that it is possible not to make major changes to the FC motherboard, only make small changes, replace the video memory chip with 4K, cancel the card slot on the FC motherboard, and then extend it on this basis, and use the extra part as a DARM area.

DARM adopts a redundant design, and the number of DRAM memory chips is determined according to the size of the game capacity. If the capacity is small, install a few, and if the capacity is large, install a few more DARM chips, which can save costs to the greatest extent.

With the designed drawings, Li Yixuan opened the door of time and space and returned to the 23rd century. He asked the company to make a sample tape-out and test for design defects.