Chapter 004: Snake Eater
The next day, Yang Yun joined the asset reorganization and reorganization team of Huamao Electronics Factory, which was privately called by Zhao Yongping and his Soviet expert friend named Alexey Pagetzhov.
It took another week, under the leadership of the local driver, the three of them touched the bottom of the large and small electronics factories in Chongshan City, and worked tirelessly to go to Dongguan and Shenzhen, and visited many peers.
Back in Huamao, everyone was heavy-minded.
In the factory director's office, Zhao Yongping had a gloomy face and said: "Alexey, Xiao Yang, don't wait for me!" The little genius cassette company has begun to set up sales channels, the pyramid of learning machine sales are also good, Nintendo red and white machine firmly holds the high-end market of Shenzhen, we are a big step behind! β
Alexei rubbed his big nose and spread his hands: "Since both of you are optimistic about the cassette market, then don't hesitate, build the production workshop, Xiao Yang and I will build the 6502CPU development platform first!" β
Zhao Yongping nodded, looked at Yang Yun and asked, "Xiao Yang, what do you think?" β
Yang Yun laughed: "Director Zhao, Alexey, Weishenme want to build a platform in person?" We Weishenme don't find another way to directly acquire a set of ready-made cassette programming equipment? β
The two didn't react for a while, and Zhao Yongping asked: "You mean, we learn from those miscellaneous small factories and secretly burn cassette tapes?" β
Yang Yun nodded, that's what he meant.
Each game console has a corresponding development machine and independent development software, the development machine is a complete set of equipment produced by the host, and the cassette motherboard is the most important product on the development platform, using an independent pseudo-solidified operating system, the ROM size is different, and the cost is different.
And the development of software, smart Chinese are the best at cracking, so those miscellaneous small factories are not lacking these jishu, that is, how to make games, or how to crack the games made by others, and then how to turn the computer language into data instructions to the CPU, and then through the development machine platform, burned to their own cassette motherboard.
When making cassette, the cassette motherboard carries various sizes of memory ROM on it, and the solidified operating system is integrated, so that the machine card is separated, and the card must be inserted on the game console to boot up, and several M ROMs contain dozens of games, according to the size of each game and the capacity of the cassette, divided into four in one, sixty-four in one, and so on.
How troublesome it is to design an original game, it's better to directly crack someone else's game to make money!
This is the cottage spirit that makes the whole shijie stunned! A mobile phone contains 7 operating systems, and you can switch them at any time through the option, which is not something we haven't done!
What the Chinese are best at is these things, buy a genuine Nintendo game cartridge, crack the software inside, and then burn it directly into their own cartridge, a game 256K, no problem, I take a 1M cartridge, all stuffed into it becomes a four-in-one, a game 32K, get a 2M cartridge, instantly become sixty-four in one.
Everyone understands this truth, and it is clear at one point.
Alexei hurriedly shook his head: "This is not good!" Unauthorized is subject to legal liability. β
He is Soviet, and in any case, in terms of patent rights and legal awareness, he is much stronger than the vast majority of Chinese.
Zhao Yongping was silent, he is a graduate student of the National People's Congress, he has been in the capital for many years, of course he knows the word patent, the country set up a patent office a few years ago, but the legal awareness of people in society is too thin, so the vast majority of people don't take it seriously, Yang Yun said that the few miscellaneous small factories, it is estimated that they don't even know what a patent is!
Of course, Yang Yun knew everyone's scruples, and he smiled slightly: "Who said we want to infringe?" We're just using this off-the-shelf platform and software to make our own games. Director Zhao, it is too risky to fight the world empty-handed, and time does not allow, Nintendo and Xiao Tiancai have already run 100 meters away, but we have not yet stood on the starting line. Extraordinary moments, use extraordinary means! β
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Yongping gritted his teeth and said, "It's decided!" Let's go buy a set of equipment and come back! β
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"Huamao Electronics Factory is crazy!"
"They sold the machines in the factory! Get back a few sets of equipment that no one will use! β
"Loser! We have to react to the factory! β
Although the workers of Huamao Electronics Factory have been suspended for a long time, they cannot be hidden from the large and small incidents that have occurred in the factory.
Zhao Yongping is the factory director who was hired, although he is in charge of production and operation, but he can't do anything to sell machines!
Fortunately, Zhao Yongping withstood the pressure of the group and let Alexei and Yang Yun build a platform, his future was bound to this unknown project, and now he can only give it a go.
The relationship between Yang Yun and Alexei is getting more and more harmonious, everyone is a jishu man, although Yang Yun is not as good as the Soviet experts in compilation and VB language, but he has many ideas, and he has made great achievements in data structure, and what he said shocked Alexey.
There's no way, who called my brother from 2013! In the first year of college, the basic courses that computer science students must learn are assembly and data structures......
Yang Yun also learned a lot from Alexey, especially the platform software they bought, after seeing visual programming, Yang Yun's heart itched, he now has a lot of ideas, the first game from his hands, is about to be born!
Finally, on May 4, 1989, the fifth day after the platform was built, it was a memorable day, and three people gathered in the R&D workshop of Huamao Electronics Factory.
"Xiao Yang, why did you call us here in a hurry?" Zhao Yongping is busy with his head full of bags, writing reports, processing assets, and integrating sales and R&D teams.
Yang Yun skillfully clicked on a program, handed over a handle, and signaled: "Play and see!" β
The monitor presents a square area surrounded by frames with a stick in the middle and a small square highlight not far from the stick.
Zhao Yongping pressed the START button and muttered: "What the hell!" How to play this? β
"Control the snake's path up and down, left and right, eat that individual point of light, and then the snake's body will become longer. Be careful not to touch the wall and do not eat your own body. β
Gluttonous snakes!
It's just that it looks very simple, where does it look like a snake? It's just a square stick!
And the interface is too simple,A circle of black light points is the wall,The pure black and white snake body moves,The food light point of the snake is more like a black smudge on the displayγ
Soon, though, everyone became interested.
"Alas, alas! A dot came out on the right! β
"It's going to hit the wall! Hurry up and turn right! β
"I've eaten 20 spots of light!"
"It's too long! Hurry up and turn! Look, it's too late! β
"Director Zhao, you are too awesome! Are you wrapping flower rolls? β
Zhao Yongping's palms were sweaty, the first gluttonous snake, he ate 22 points of light, and when the result was refreshed, the 23rd point was refreshed inside, and he was careless, he didn't leave a way out, and the snake's head was close to the tail, and it became smaller and smaller in a circle, really like a big flower roll!
Alexei couldn't help it, snatched the handle, and shouted: "I'm coming!" β
Yang Yun wanted to tease him, modified the source code, and then opened the game, only to see the snake body controlled by Alexey, moving twice as fast as Zhao Yongping!
"Oh my God! ΠΠ±οΌΡΠ²ΠΎΡοΌΠΌΠ°ΡοΌ @#Β₯%......" Alexey couldn't help but burst into foul language, which made Zhao Yongping, who was watching the game, look sideways.
The snake has successfully aroused everyone's interest, so does it have any market prospects?
Zhao Yongping squinted his eyes, looked at Alexei and Yang Yun who were shouting, was silent, quickly calculated in his heart, and gave a conclusion, this game can be sold!
But he still had an important question to determine, and he looked at Yang Yun.