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The SAM group's "Calculator Upgrade" project, after Lin Hong's publicity at the ball, gained a lot of popularity, and because of its own fun and practicality, it quickly spread in Latin schools. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the cracking method is very simple, and they did not limit the cracking program to their own hands, anyone who asks for it, can be transmitted to the other party, and then let the other party help crack other people's calculators, and later, even in the name of the SAM group, the cracking program and two game programs were released in the BBS of major technical classes, of course, which naturally includes "Tulip" BBS.

With the Internet, the computer cracking trend quickly spread to other major colleges and universities in the United States, including colleges and universities in addition to middle schools.

There is a wave of calculators on campus, because the cracked calculator can indeed complete a lot of functions, freely program within the scope of hardware resources, and add some special mathematical and graphical functions that Texas Instruments engineers have not added for a long time, such as the calculation of function values, maximums, minimums, integrals and derivatives, as well as matrix operations, row transformation operations, transformations between matrices and arrays, and so on.

Of course, this is naturally indispensable to everyone's favorite games, but due to the limitation of storage space, when porting the game, everyone had to completely reprogram it according to the original, abstracting complex graphics into a variety of simple black and white patterns, and the characters in the game were often abstracted into a stickman, and the famous TV and arcade games soon began to appear on calculators, "Super Mario", "Street Fighter", "Thunderbolt", ......

After the Homecoming Festival, the "SAM Group" was officially upgraded to a student club, and began to accept other students to join, and the name was officially set as the "SAM Technology Frontier Association", and the content of the temporary research was to crack, expand and develop around the computer.

However, to join the SAM Association, it is not just anyone, it must promote the SAM Association's projects, and in the past few days, only one student has been successfully recruited, he is the author of the calculator version of "Super Mario" Pissen, a mixed race with black ancestry, who usually gives the impression of being a nerd at school, silent, and no one wants to associate with him.

After the SAM Association was founded, he was the first to respond, and in a day he wrote the first working version of Super Mario, and then, with his continuous improvement and optimization, the game became more and more perfect, and soon surpassed the SAM Association's previous releases of "Ping Pong" and "Tetris" to become everyone's favorite game on the calculator platform.

Of course, at present, the game is only a stand-alone version, and cannot be connected to other calculators, and he is studying the infrared communication protocol invented by Lin Hong, thinking about how to add a connection function to his Mario, which will undoubtedly increase the fun of this game.

Today, after school, the four-member team of the SAM Association came to the headquarters of their association, which is a small room next to the school's computer room, to discuss the next development plan.

This headquarters stronghold, is the association after the formal establishment, to the school to apply, because the members are still relatively small, so in the end only to apply for an area of only about 40 square meters of empty room, fortunately the location is good, just located near the school computer room, the headquarters door is also right in front of a small garden, they are still more satisfied.

At present, there is only one conference table and a few stools in the headquarters, and the oval conference table is still empty, only a stack of application forms for association membership.

The president of the SAM Association is Matthew, because Lin Hong and Arthur both feel that his character is more suitable to be the president, the two of them are vice presidents, who are responsible for technology, and Pitson is the officer inside, of course, Matthew has promised a long time ago, this is only temporary, and after the infrastructure of the association is improved, it will continue to absorb members, and Pierson will also be the veteran of the association at that time, and his status will naturally not be low.

Pissen has no opinion on this, he is already very happy to be able to join the SAM Association, you know, usually he is very miserable at school, not even a friend, and now the SAM Association has given him a platform to let his skills be recognized by everyone, which was something that he could never dream of before. He felt very proud and happy just to think that the game he had written was installed in the calculators of almost all the students in the school. And, as the first member of the SAM Association, his popularity index at the school immediately soared, and he was completely out of the realm of marginal students at the moment, and gradually began to be accepted by everyone.

Everyone sat down in their seats, and President Matthew began today's speech, only to see him clear his throat and say solemnly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first official meeting of our association since its establishment, and today there will be an important plan to announce......"

"Well, Matthew, can you please not speak with that emphasis."

Arthur couldn't help but interject.

Lin Hong also laughed: "I agree with Arthur's opinion, Matthew, we feel too awkward for you to talk like this, let's be casual." ”

"Hey, hey!" Matthew also smiled and said embarrassedly, "This isn't the first meeting, I'm wondering if it should be more formal." ”

Matthew is as good as he is, and since everyone is not used to being so dull, he is happy to do so.

"In the past few days, our upgrade plan has been going very well, and almost all of our students have upgraded their calculators in a short period of time."

Considering that cracking this statement is a bit unpleasant, it is likely to be troubled by Texas Instruments, so the official statement is to upgrade the calculator, liberate the functions of the original calculator, and maximize the function of the calculator.

"In addition, with the help of BBS, this upgrade program has quickly become popular in other schools, mainly thanks to Stone, which allows the cracked program to be transmitted directly to the computer wirelessly, without even having to connect to a computer......

"As of now, we have a total of eight games that can be run on the platform, as well as some useful gadgets, and these things are growing rapidly."

"Today, we are going to discuss the next development plan of our association and set a rough goal, so that we will not be confused in the future."

Since everyone believed that he had elected him as president, Matthew felt that he had to take on this responsibility, so these days, he has bothered a lot for the affairs of the club.

He himself knew that his role in this project was actually not as good as that of Stone and Arthur, so he was even more concerned about it. In the future, more members will be added to the association, and if he doesn't work hard, he may be eliminated.

Matthew continued: "I'll start with one question, and that's the hardware platform. At present, our cracking program is only focused on the TI-82 calculator platform, Texas Instruments also has other models of calculators, in addition to the hardware limitations, there are still several models that can be considered to crack together, such as TI-82E, TI-81 series, etc. In addition to this, calculators of other brands can also be considered for inclusion in the scope of cracking. ”

Lin Hong nodded, since the TI-82 has been cracked, the cracking of other calculators of Texas Instruments is similar, and many codes and principles can be reused, but minor modifications are needed. As for other brands, it depends on the specific situation. Among the members of the SAM Association, he is the only one who knows more about hardware, so this is basically his job.

"The second point is how to make our association grow rapidly, form an influence in the school, and make everyone proud to join our association." Matthew threw out another thesis, "Although we have also applied for a lot of membership, I know that many of them are impulsive, they just think the program is cool, so they want to join, of course, stone may account for a large part of the reason." ”

Asking a question in this way and then discussing ways to find a solution was a common practice for teachers in class, and it was now a good practice for him to use in discussions within the association.

Arthur: "yes. I looked at these membership applications, and many of them didn't even have the most basic technical knowledge. ”

The three of them passed the gas before, they want to build the "SAM Technology Frontier Association" into a more influential association, naturally they can't let anyone join, and among the three of them, only Matthew is more suitable for management, Arthur and Lin Hong are afraid of trouble, so they strictly control the members.

The overall purpose is to recruit only those who have made great contributions to the association, implement an elite membership policy, and have opportunities as long as you can promote the development of the association, regardless of whether they are popular in the school or not.

And there is another advantage of having fewer people, that is, the relationship between members and members will be better, and it will not be used for hundreds of members like those clubs that have been flooded, and even the members of the club don't know each other.

"I think that as long as we can bring benefits to everyone and write more software and games on the calculator, the influence in the school should gradually increase." Pissen thought for a moment and offered his opinion.

"Pissen has a point." Lin Hong nodded, and then said some of his thoughts these days, "But our own strength is limited after all, it is still a little too thin, and we still have our own studies to complete, so it is impossible to spend all our time on it." I think we harness the power of the web. ”

"Harnessing the power of the web?"

After hearing Lin Hong's words, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.