game trailblazer

Chapter 55 Fu Zan's ambition
When Ye Tianwei was still troubled by the problem of whether the handle was broken, the enemy tanks started to move, without giving him much chance to think.Two armored tanks first flashed from the birthplace, and then outflanked them from the left and right. Ye Tianwei found that the situation was not good, and pressed the direction keys again to try to hide in a safer position. Unfortunately, the tanks still remained motionless. What made him feel a little relieved was that The tank can still fire, and it can just hit the armored tank that is coming.Relying on the fact that he had received two stars and the speed of the gun was relatively fast, Ye Tianwei killed the approaching armored tank. Chen Xiaohao on the other side was not so lucky. Because the muzzle direction was wrong, he was killed before he could resist.

Before Ye Tianwei had time to kick his breath, two red tanks drove over again.This time it was easy to deal with, Ye Tianwei shot down the leader first, and a shovel flashed on the screen again.This time Ye Tianwei saw clearly that the enemy tanks could really eat treasures, and the poor headquarters instantly turned into an undefended area, and his back couldn't help but burst into a cold sweat.Seeing another red tank approaching, Ye Tianwei had to fire again, this time even worse, another pocket watch appeared, although they were not far from Ye Tianwei and Chen Xiaohao, but they couldn't move, they could only watch helplessly as a fast The tank ran over quickly and ate the pocket watch.

Ye Tianwei and Chen Xiaohao looked at each other, sighed in unison, gave up resisting, and couldn't help but lamented in their hearts: "Oh, today is really bad!"

The two people who couldn't move had no ability to resist. First, Ye Tianwei was blasted by two shells from a fast tank that appeared from behind, and then the two stood next to the headquarters to watch a shell that flew from above slowly float down. The people next to him blow up the headquarters.

At this point, Ye Tianwei and Chen Xiaohao had no choice but to abdicate.Not to be outdone, the two players immediately took over the handles and continued to fight, but obviously the luck of these two was even worse. Before they drove far, they fired a bomb, but the terrible thing was that the bomb appeared on the enemy tank's spawn Soon, the two were sent back to their hometown by the bomb without any accident.However, the strength of the players is strong. Although the first two days were a little unprepared for the sudden new situation, after analysis and research, the players quickly mastered the new fighting techniques, and the fighting atmosphere in the store slowly began to return to the right track superior.

The revision of "Tank Battle" is still going on, but this time the poor players finally have some compensation. The development team discovered by conscience finally provided players with two powerful treasures (of course, enemy tanks will still not be humble in front of new treasures ).Because a certain creator is addicted to the world of science fiction, he came up with the following two names. One is called "pulse electron gun" (commonly known as a pistol by players), which can provide the strongest firepower for the player's tank in an instant. Grass knocked out.The other is called "Amphibious Capability" (commonly known as a ship by players), which enables the player's tank to pass through the original natural moat - the blue water surface - as if walking on flat ground.Now the players on the market have new fun, but sometimes the exclamation of enemy tanks suddenly passing through some solid obstacles is not so harmonious.

The struggle and counter-struggle are still going on, and the "Tank War" in Fu Zan's hands is also constantly changing. It was not until shortly after the FC-related patents were obtained that two cassettes that collected the research results during this period were finally delivered to Zhang Lexing.One of them is the result of the development team led by Fu Zan in the small building at No. 16 Meiwu Road. He named this version "88 Tank Battle". Special marks were left on the map - the words "Fuzhou", "Yantai Mountain", "Tianzhiyuan" and "546406" (the phone number of Tianzhiyuan) spelled out of brick walls.

The other cassette was somewhat different. The game map was created by Fu Zan, but the main program modification was done by Chen Tianming.Chen Tianming is a high school classmate of Fu Zan's. He has been handicapped due to illness since he was a child, but he has not given up on himself because of this, and has been working hard all the time.After graduating from high school, Chen Tianming began to learn computer technology by himself. After joining Tianzhiyuan, he got in touch with more professional knowledge and soon became a senior programmer of Tianzhiyuan.Considering Chen Tianming's health, Fu Zan bought a 286 computer and put it in Chen Tianming's home as a development machine, so as not to run around, so there were two versions of "Tank War" from the very beginning.With the support of Fu Zan, Chen Tianming directly modified the game from the source code, adding special gameplay such as launching missiles and reinforcing fortifications to the game.Because "Tank Wars" is to fire whether you press the A button or the B button, Chen Tianming changed the A button to a missile launch button. The missile launched by the player can directly pass through all obstacles on the map, and can also turn after the end.The missiles are so powerful, of course, the number must be limited. The initial number of missiles is only three. Once they are used up, the player does not need to be discouraged. At this time, the tank can also be driven to the front of the red brick or white iron block, press the A key to lift Pick up red bricks or white iron blocks, go to the place where you need to build fortifications or set up roadblocks, and then press the A button to put it down, so that players can design fortifications more freely, and even control the movement of enemy tanks by setting up roadblocks.This version, which was finally modified by Chen Tianming, was named "Missile Tank" by Fu Zan.

Looking at the two slightly rough-looking cassettes on the table, Zhang Lexing picked up one casually.Insert the cassette into the game console, turn on the power, and with the accompaniment of familiar music, the long-lost thoughts came to mind again, but the feeling is no longer the same.

Of course, the cassette carrying the hard work of the Tianzhiyuan development team and Chen Tianming will not just be played by Zhang Lexing alone. After communication, "88 Tank Battle" and "Missile Tank" have been added to Nintendo's spring and autumn game releases in 88. List, which will be sold to the world soon.After completing the work on the modified version of "Tank War", Zhang Lexing arranged a promising development task for the working group of Tianzhiyuan, and the production plan of the game "Cube" on the FC game console, which has been hidden for a long time, started.

After nearly a year of study, Fu Zan feels that he and his team have gained a lot of experience in FC game development technology. Although he has already undertaken the production task of "FC Cube", an idea began to emerge in his heart, that is, Make an original Chinese game.After playing many FC games (in order to let the development team understand the various forms of FC games, Zhang Lexing selected a lot of FC game cassettes and sent them to Fuzhou), Fu Zan found that in addition to English, he also spoke Japanese. During this period of contact with players, some players raised their expectations for Chinese games, and they couldn't help but start to have some thoughts in their hearts.Of course, Fu Zan knows that the timing is not right now. One is that there is no suitable game script, and the other is the lack of professional art and music production (the art and music talents who went out for training have not yet come back), and more importantly, there are still There are development tasks, and starting two projects at the same time is not enough for the current strength of the team.Fu Zan secretly made up his mind, first find a way to find a suitable game script, and then start when the staff is more organized, and must make a good game that will impress the boss.

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During the year of Fu Zan's hard work, the research and development team of the learning machine is also working hard.The working place of this R&D team is in the Shenzhen Cassette Factory. From the beginning of the establishment of the factory, the research and development has been closed in a secluded small building in the factory area.The main R&D personnel are hardware engineers recruited from several research institutes in early 87 and technicians who have researched Hanka technology. They started research work on the basis of the original English version learning machine (split prototype).

After nearly a year of research, the research and development team finally had a handy result, a set of split-type Chinese learning machines.Based on the prototype of the English learning machine at that time, referring to the Chinese card and Chinese processing technology in the Chinese character system of APPLE-II, a special Chinese system was designed for the learning machine, so that the learning machine can complete the normal display of Chinese characters.In order to be able to input Chinese characters, the research and development team, after negotiating with Wang Yongmin, the patent owner of Wubi, added the popular Wubi input method to the learning machine (no way, who made Wubi so popular at this time).The keyboard circuit of the learning machine expands the 73 keys of the English prototype to 86 keys. The circuit structure and key code definition are compatible with the prototype, but some keys are added to be similar to the computer keyboard.

This set of split learning machines can now provide functions such as: keyboard practice, typing practice games, Wubi learning, appreciation of Tang poems, mathematical calculations, composition exercises, BASIC program writing, English learning, etc. It is a bit like the learning machine in Zhang Lexing's impression. It's like.

The most complicated part of the split learning machine is the learning card, and all additional functions must be realized on the learning card.In order to realize the display of Chinese characters, the R&D team designed a 2K RAM on the card to store the font numbers of Chinese characters, and then used the GAL logic circuit to realize the dynamic cutting of Chinese characters to display the Chinese characters in the Chinese character library.It’s just that this technology has some flaws. The RAM address space used to store the Chinese font size 2K just overlaps with the second page address of the VRAM used to store the display code on the FC host. As a result, the VRAM cannot be used after the learning card is inserted. The second page is used to realize the curtain processing. The direct impact is that the BASIC language attached to the learning machine cannot be used to write more complicated games, and it is a bit difficult to transplant the popular Logo language in primary and secondary schools.

It's a pity that the current R&D team seems to be stuck in some kind of bottleneck, and has been unable to find a more scientific way to improve this split learning machine.In order to help the R&D team get out of the predicament, and also to strengthen the strength of the learning machine R&D team, Zhang Lexing planned to set up a new research institute in Shanghai in the name of Tianzhiyuan.A Hongkonger who happened to have business dealings with Zhang Lexing’s industry planned to return to Shanghai to invest in building a factory to produce black and white TV sets. To save trouble, Zhang Lexing entrusted him to go to Shanghai to help find a suitable place to set up a research institute. Make a breakthrough.

(I would like to use this article to miss the career of red and white machines and learning machines, especially the good time when I was fighting with my friends on the front line of fighting tanks...)
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