Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Cora (Cora) accidentally saw a report in the newspaper yesterday, "The popular arcade games <Tank Wars> and <Great Wall Cube> computer version games are about to launch in the beautiful country."

He had learned from reports that computer copies of the two games were available at computer park stores.So he drove for nearly half an hour today, and finally found Ai Rui's store, planning to buy a copy of the game back.

Seeing that the business came, Ai Rui put down the Great Wall Cube Gameboy handheld he was playing, and replied with a smile: "Sir, yes. The copies of the computer versions of these two games are available in our computer corner store!"

Cora (Cora) waved her fist excitedly, decided to buy without even asking the price of the game copy, and said ecstatically: "Good! Please give me a copy of the two games each!" .

Ai Rui didn't rush to get him a copy of the game, but asked, "Sorry! Sir, do you have an abc computer at home?"

Cora froze for a moment and shook her head and said, "I already have an Apple computer, but I don't have an ABC computer from Icon."

Ai Rui answered patiently: "Then I'm sorry, sir! The copies of the two computer games "Great Wall of Cubes" and "Tank Battle" can only be run on the RoyalTek-Dos operating system of the abc computer.

If you don't buy an abc computer, even if you buy a copy of the game back, it won't work on your Apple computer! "

After listening to Eric's explanation, Cora said angrily, "fuck! Whose idea is this? It's disgusting!"

Ai Rui pretended not to hear his cursing. Almost every customer who came to buy a copy of the game couldn't help cursing a few words after knowing the result. He has been used to it for a while.

Ai Rui promoted: "Sir, why don't you buy a Gameboy handheld game console? There is also the game "Great Wall of Cubes" on it. I was playing it just now, and this handheld game console is very small and light, you can put it in your pocket and take it with you. Portable, very convenient!"

Cora (Cola) asked: "The copies of these two computer versions of the game can only be run on the abc computer?"

Ai Rui nodded and said: "Sir, yes. The copies of these two computer versions of the game can only run on the RoyalTek-Dos operating system of abc computer. RoyalTek-Dos is compatible with cp/m, but cp/m is not compatible RoyalTek-Dos, so the software on other cp/m systems can be used on the abc computer, but the software on the abc computer cannot run on other computers!"

Cora (Cora) pointed to a black computer with tough lines and a stylish appearance, and asked: "Is this cool computer the abc computer from Acorn?"

Ai Rui replied: "Sir, yes! This is an abc-1 with the basic configuration of Acorn computer!"

Cora (Cora) thought for a moment and said: "Can you open it for me to try? If it is really good, I will buy another Acorn computer and give my original Apple computer to my brother Wynn !"

Ai Rui has met several customers during this period, who came to buy a copy of the game, but finally bought an abc computer to go home. Ai Rui can only describe them in one sentence, rich and self-willed!
But he just likes such willful customers, so Ai Rui quickly activated the abc prototype on the counter and began to explain and demonstrate some basic operations to Cora.

Then I took a floppy disk of the game "Tank Battle", put it into the floppy drive of the case, and opened it to enter the game program. The key-102 keyboard of the abc computer can be set to a two-player game mode. One person uses the direction keys, and the other uses the four keys "w, s, a, and d" to control the up, down, left, and right directions.

These are the most common settings in later generations of computers, but they were a very nice innovation in 1982.Because before the key-102 keyboard came out, most of the keyboards on the market didn't even have the concept of arrow keys.

The two happily collaborated on "Tank Battle". Playing the game together is a good way to communicate with each other. At the same time, Ai Rui took the opportunity to continuously instill various advantages of this abc computer to customers.

A pair of father and son customers came to the store at some point, and the son said eagerly, "Dad, this game is so interesting, I want to play it too!"

The father looked at his son's eager expression, and asked Airi, "Can I let my son try it?"

Ai Rui nodded with a smile and said, "Sir, of course there is no problem!"

Ai Rui greeted Cora (Cora), let the child to the computer, and began to teach the child how to operate the game.

After 10 minutes, Ai Rui sent away the two groups of customers in a happy mood, and two more abc-1 computers were added to the store's sales list today.

During this time, the abc computer from Acorn was the main promotion in his shop. As for the Apple computer from Apple, he had already moved it to an inconspicuous corner.

It is said that Acorn Computer Company and Computer Land Company are the same behind-the-scenes boss, but these have nothing to do with franchise stores like Ai Rui.

They only know that according to the company's policy, selling an abc computer can earn more profit than selling an apple computer, so recently Ariel has been trying its best to promote Acorn's abc computer to customers.

Since August, abc computer has quickly entered the counters of major computer sales companies in the beautiful country and John country.Simultaneously with the computer, there are also a series of practical software, such as the computer version of the previous arcade games "Great Wall of Cubes" and "Tank War".

In fact, as early as after the Los Angeles Electronics Show, when the "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle" arcade machines became popular in the beautiful country market, Dingtian Company received many offers from many beautiful country game companies to purchase the copyrights of the two game computers, all of which were rejected by Bai Zi. Rui refused.

The legal department of Dingtian Company is also keeping a close eye on the computer game market in the beautiful country. As long as other companies find out that other companies have infringed on "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank War" copycat behavior, they will immediately send a sternly worded lawyer's letter to the other party .

If the other party still doesn't hold back, they will meet in court directly. For this reason, the legal department of Dingtian Company also sued three small software companies in the beautiful country to court, and the legal fees cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Relying on the huge popularity accumulated by the arcade versions of the two games, the computer versions of "Great Wall of Cubes" and "Tank Battle" immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the players once they were released.After all, going to grocery stores and small shops to play arcade games is not as comfortable and worry-free as playing on your own computer at home.

However, the copies of the two games "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle" can only be run on Acorn's abc computer, which makes countless players who are going to buy game copies depressed.

Dingtian Company will naturally launch game copies based on other operating systems in the future, but that will be a few months later.At least for now, the only way to play these two games on a personal computer for the first time is to buy an abc computer.