game trailblazer
Chapter 76 IBM's Defeat
Chapter 76 IBM's Defeat
Andrew was part of IBM's Oak Project, um, the announced new version of the OS/2 operating system development project.As an old IBM employee, Andrew once worked in the Highland Laboratory, and he has always been worried about the fact that the PC did not use IBM's own processor and operating system. How come there are so many competitors.Especially the most hateful Intel and VisualSystem companies, if it weren't for the support of IBM back then, how could they have their glory today, but when their wings hardened, the two companies immediately started anew, and even mingled with IBM's competitors.
Fortunately, IBM has finally decided to launch its own operating system. Andrew and some old colleagues in the Highland Laboratory are very happy. The sudden blow last year made the once mighty VisualSystem company embarrassed. It might have been taken down.It can be said that IBM has done its best this year. The development team that used to have less than 300 people has been expanded to a scale of nearly 1000 people. I am afraid that only IBM can show such courage in this world. Andrew feels that this time he will be able to get rid of that annoying VisualSystem, then the damn Intel, and finally IBM back on the throne, everything will be so good.Whenever he thinks of this, Andrew can't help but laugh out loud.
After thinking about it, things still need to be done, Andrew glanced at the floppy disk nailed to the wall and continued to enter his own part of the code.Speaking of that floppy disk, it was done by several programmers after Ballmer, the stinky mouth of VisualSystem, made a big fuss. They also named this floppy disk "Ballmer Floppy Disk".Soon this name became popular in the development center. Everyone just glanced at the floppy disk and immediately became full of energy, because everyone knows that if you don’t work hard, the hard work of the past few years will be in vain. What’s more important is that if you can see VisualSystem What a joy it would be for the company's Ballmer to eat the floppy.In this atmosphere, all developers are working hard. Some people move to a hotel near the company to save time on the road. Some people even move their bedding into the office and take a nap when they are sleepy. Andrew was one of them, and his bedroll was thrown under his desk.
The busy work makes the time pass quickly, and the end of the year is coming in a blink of an eye, and another Christmas is coming.Andrew feels that everyone has been working hard during this period, but there are always some useless situations. Many people spend several weeks making functional modules but suddenly find that they cannot communicate with related modules normally. As a result, they have to spend a lot of money Energy to communicate.Fortunately for Andrew, OS/2 is almost finished despite the troubles.But two days before Andrew was happy, a notice was posted on the whiteboard of the development center.Andrew happened to pass by when he was going to lunch, and took a look, but that almost didn't make his lungs explode.I don’t know which bullshit bureaucrat came up with the idea that all employees who have not completed their annual leave must complete it in that year, and now there are less than eight days left in a year. What does this mean? Andrew can figure it out with his knees .Sure enough, the subsequent developments were as he expected. Many developers who were unwilling to waste their vacations could only put down their work and go on vacations. This ghost operating system is owned by IBM, but these vacations belong to the employees themselves. Who would do this? Silly, the company itself doesn't pay much attention to it, so it only requires employees to contribute.With the increase of people on leave, the finishing work of OS/2, which was still advancing rapidly, was forced to stop, and now more people simply went on vacation. In the end, there were only a few people like Andrew who did not give up in the development center. , The once full house suddenly seemed empty.As a result, IBM's promise to go public at the end of the year can only be in vain, and the spokesman Jerry has to come forward in a very embarrassing manner to announce the new listing date-the end of March next year.
……
IBM's side is very unsatisfactory, but VisualSystem's progress is very fast, and the estimated time for the launch of the operating system has also been advanced to February next year, and it can finally be launched before IBM.Of course, the happiest thing is Ballmer. He finally doesn't have to worry all day long, and he no longer has to worry about someone forcing him to eat a floppy disk.
On February 1992, 2, the well-prepared Kylin Windows 28 conference was held as scheduled. Fortunately, the development teams of the two places were in high spirits after suffering for more than half a year.On the same day, the Ministry of Justice announced: "After a long period of investigation work, it was determined that VisualSystem did not take advantage of the dominant position of the operating system to bundle and sell application software, and will withdraw the relevant anti-monopoly lawsuits...". As soon as two good news came out, Immediately, the stock prices of listed companies under VisualSystem Corporation soared, and the stock price of Microsoft Corporation rose by eight percentage points that day.
Some people are happy and some are sad, in sharp contrast to IBM. In 1991, IBM suffered a huge loss of US$30 billion, which was the first time in its 67-year history.After experiencing the turmoil of the vacation, the efficiency of the "Oak Tree" development team has been greatly reduced. If it were not for the hard work of some key members, the release of the operating system would be postponed again.Finally, IBM finally held the bottom line and announced the release of OS/3 on the last day of March. In order to boost morale, a grand celebration meeting was specially held.It seems that IBM seems to have hope, but many people in the "Oak Tree" development team know that there are still some minor problems in OS/23.0 that need to be modified at this time. In order to catch up with the time, the press conference has been scheduled to be held at 2:4 am on April 1st. .In order to produce a decent product at the press conference, the developers had to work overtime for urgent processing. The lights in the development center were turned on from the night of March 3 until the early morning of the next day.When IBM's marketing staff got the official product, the tired developers had time to fall asleep at their desks.
The subsequent situation became more and more unfavorable to IBM, and OS/2, which was struggling to go public with constant troubles, could not compete with VisualSystem's operating system at all. Under VisualSystem's strong marketing offensive, the sales volume of KylinWindows system quickly reached 2 times that of OS/10. The new operating system that IBM spent huge sums of money to develop can't even get back the money in the end.Faced with this ordeal, the originally ambitious "Oak Tree" development team was heartbroken, and even their team leader Joe Bridge sighed: "The hearts of the people are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead...".A few weeks after OS/2 went on the market, more than half of the once huge team of nearly 1000 people had left, and many even went directly to IBM's competitors.And Andrew unexpectedly came to the gate of VisualSystem Company by accident. He hesitated for a while in front of the gate, and finally made up his mind to walk in with his resume.Andrew's new life begins...
Life goes on, freed from IBM's close pursuit, Zhang Lexing always thinks of the group of Zhan Jun who has been silent for a long time. He hasn't paid attention to it for a long time, and he doesn't know if they have done anything.Zhang Lexing drove to the newly built production center of Blue Dragon Company last year, walked up to the second floor, gently pushed open the frosted glass partition, and came to the temporary work area of Zhan Jun and others.
There are not many people sitting in front of the computer, there are only six people in total, all of them are concentrating on playing the game, and there are many sleeping bags on the floor on the other side, most of them are sleeping, and there are snoring sounds of different tones from time to time, It seems that everyone has worked very hard during this time.Zhang Lexing walked in lightly, and casually glanced at the game screens of several people. It seemed that they were the same game, and Zhang Lexing felt a sense of deja vu.
Team leader Zhan Jun was also among the few players playing games, and his seat was relatively outside. Zhang Lexing walked over and patted him on the shoulder lightly.Zhan Jun looked back and saw Zhang Lexing, and was so nervous that he wanted to stand up immediately. Zhang Lexing waved his hand, signaling him to continue sitting, then moved the chair beside him and sat down, and asked in a low voice: "Is this game the result of your time?"
"Yes, it was made through the joint efforts of all of us. But because of the cost, it took a little longer." Zhan Jun replied.
Zhang Lexing took a closer look at the game screen and found that there were fewer types of colors in the screen: "Looking at the screen, it seems that the effect of "Three Kingdoms 2" made by RB's group is similar."
Zhan Jun explained: "Yes, considering the performance of the current mainstream platforms, we used the same high-score VGA screen (2×640) as "Three Kingdoms 480", and the colors are also 16 colors."
"Looking at how you operate, this should be a war chess game."
"Yes, this is a war chess game."
"Then why do you think of making this type of game?"
Zhan Jun began to introduce the origin of the game in detail: "When we started working on a new project last year, we never thought of a good idea. Later, Wen Dawei and I accidentally played a FC game "Fire Emblem - Dark Dragon and Light Sword" was made by a company called Square in RB. This game gave us inspiration. We can also make a game that mixes strategy and role-playing.
At the beginning, I also wanted to make a similar medieval background, but unfortunately, we are not very familiar with this style, and the game background written is too formatted.Later, I played "Three Kingdoms 2" made by RB's group, and found that the background of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was very suitable. It was familiar and convenient to adapt, so we decided to abandon the medieval background that we were not good at, and choose an era that everyone knew - the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the end of the year, it was divided into three countries.
The era background chose the Three Kingdoms period, so some material resources of "Three Kingdoms 2" can be used, which also reduces a lot of costs.The Three Kingdoms period has a long historical span. In order to control the scale of the game, we made reasonable choices. Starting from the eighteenth princes' alliance against Dong Zhuo, considering the relatively large influence of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", we designed two scripts in the game. Just in the famous Battle of Maicheng, if Guan Yu died, then Liu Bei's attack on Wu would happen as in the historical facts, and the incident of Baidi Tuogu happened.Another kind of script is the fictional Liu Bei's recovery of the Han Dynasty, in which many unexpected plots will happen.
The specific form of the game is the strategy part and role-playing part we envisaged before. The specific battle adopts the "walking", "advancement" and "turn-based confrontation" modes of the battle flag game. Of course, it also adds a lot of characteristics of the Three Kingdoms For example, different enemy strategies, trap design during defensive battles, etc., a role-playing mode is arranged between each battle. At this time, players can wander around, or supply supplies, or collect intelligence.
......"
Listening to Zhan Jun's introduction, Zhang Lexing's feeling of familiarity became more and more obvious. Isn't this "The Legend of Heroes in Romance of the Three Kingdoms".However, what Zhan Jun and the others designed seems to be more interesting. For example, battlefield traps can be installed before the battle in some situations. Of course, this requires certain props. In addition, the battlefield strategy is richer, and the battle screen is also designed more. The breath of war.
"It looks like the game should be almost finished."
"Well, it's almost there. We are doing the final test, and it is expected to be finished in about a week." Zhan Jun nodded.
"Is there a name for the game?"
"We thought about it. Heroes are often used to describe people with outstanding intelligence and courage in ancient books, so we plan to call this game "The Legend of Heroes of the Three Kingdoms". According to the content of the script, there is also a subtitle "Liu Bei Biography". If the market responds well, we will continue to We can do more series, such as Cao Cao, or the famous military strategist Zhuge Liang." Zhan Jun began to think about the future.
Not to mention, his ideas are really promising. Since then, there will be one less "Three Kingdoms Heroes" in the world, but a better "Three Kingdoms Heroes".
(End of the second volume...)
(End of this chapter)
Andrew was part of IBM's Oak Project, um, the announced new version of the OS/2 operating system development project.As an old IBM employee, Andrew once worked in the Highland Laboratory, and he has always been worried about the fact that the PC did not use IBM's own processor and operating system. How come there are so many competitors.Especially the most hateful Intel and VisualSystem companies, if it weren't for the support of IBM back then, how could they have their glory today, but when their wings hardened, the two companies immediately started anew, and even mingled with IBM's competitors.
Fortunately, IBM has finally decided to launch its own operating system. Andrew and some old colleagues in the Highland Laboratory are very happy. The sudden blow last year made the once mighty VisualSystem company embarrassed. It might have been taken down.It can be said that IBM has done its best this year. The development team that used to have less than 300 people has been expanded to a scale of nearly 1000 people. I am afraid that only IBM can show such courage in this world. Andrew feels that this time he will be able to get rid of that annoying VisualSystem, then the damn Intel, and finally IBM back on the throne, everything will be so good.Whenever he thinks of this, Andrew can't help but laugh out loud.
After thinking about it, things still need to be done, Andrew glanced at the floppy disk nailed to the wall and continued to enter his own part of the code.Speaking of that floppy disk, it was done by several programmers after Ballmer, the stinky mouth of VisualSystem, made a big fuss. They also named this floppy disk "Ballmer Floppy Disk".Soon this name became popular in the development center. Everyone just glanced at the floppy disk and immediately became full of energy, because everyone knows that if you don’t work hard, the hard work of the past few years will be in vain. What’s more important is that if you can see VisualSystem What a joy it would be for the company's Ballmer to eat the floppy.In this atmosphere, all developers are working hard. Some people move to a hotel near the company to save time on the road. Some people even move their bedding into the office and take a nap when they are sleepy. Andrew was one of them, and his bedroll was thrown under his desk.
The busy work makes the time pass quickly, and the end of the year is coming in a blink of an eye, and another Christmas is coming.Andrew feels that everyone has been working hard during this period, but there are always some useless situations. Many people spend several weeks making functional modules but suddenly find that they cannot communicate with related modules normally. As a result, they have to spend a lot of money Energy to communicate.Fortunately for Andrew, OS/2 is almost finished despite the troubles.But two days before Andrew was happy, a notice was posted on the whiteboard of the development center.Andrew happened to pass by when he was going to lunch, and took a look, but that almost didn't make his lungs explode.I don’t know which bullshit bureaucrat came up with the idea that all employees who have not completed their annual leave must complete it in that year, and now there are less than eight days left in a year. What does this mean? Andrew can figure it out with his knees .Sure enough, the subsequent developments were as he expected. Many developers who were unwilling to waste their vacations could only put down their work and go on vacations. This ghost operating system is owned by IBM, but these vacations belong to the employees themselves. Who would do this? Silly, the company itself doesn't pay much attention to it, so it only requires employees to contribute.With the increase of people on leave, the finishing work of OS/2, which was still advancing rapidly, was forced to stop, and now more people simply went on vacation. In the end, there were only a few people like Andrew who did not give up in the development center. , The once full house suddenly seemed empty.As a result, IBM's promise to go public at the end of the year can only be in vain, and the spokesman Jerry has to come forward in a very embarrassing manner to announce the new listing date-the end of March next year.
……
IBM's side is very unsatisfactory, but VisualSystem's progress is very fast, and the estimated time for the launch of the operating system has also been advanced to February next year, and it can finally be launched before IBM.Of course, the happiest thing is Ballmer. He finally doesn't have to worry all day long, and he no longer has to worry about someone forcing him to eat a floppy disk.
On February 1992, 2, the well-prepared Kylin Windows 28 conference was held as scheduled. Fortunately, the development teams of the two places were in high spirits after suffering for more than half a year.On the same day, the Ministry of Justice announced: "After a long period of investigation work, it was determined that VisualSystem did not take advantage of the dominant position of the operating system to bundle and sell application software, and will withdraw the relevant anti-monopoly lawsuits...". As soon as two good news came out, Immediately, the stock prices of listed companies under VisualSystem Corporation soared, and the stock price of Microsoft Corporation rose by eight percentage points that day.
Some people are happy and some are sad, in sharp contrast to IBM. In 1991, IBM suffered a huge loss of US$30 billion, which was the first time in its 67-year history.After experiencing the turmoil of the vacation, the efficiency of the "Oak Tree" development team has been greatly reduced. If it were not for the hard work of some key members, the release of the operating system would be postponed again.Finally, IBM finally held the bottom line and announced the release of OS/3 on the last day of March. In order to boost morale, a grand celebration meeting was specially held.It seems that IBM seems to have hope, but many people in the "Oak Tree" development team know that there are still some minor problems in OS/23.0 that need to be modified at this time. In order to catch up with the time, the press conference has been scheduled to be held at 2:4 am on April 1st. .In order to produce a decent product at the press conference, the developers had to work overtime for urgent processing. The lights in the development center were turned on from the night of March 3 until the early morning of the next day.When IBM's marketing staff got the official product, the tired developers had time to fall asleep at their desks.
The subsequent situation became more and more unfavorable to IBM, and OS/2, which was struggling to go public with constant troubles, could not compete with VisualSystem's operating system at all. Under VisualSystem's strong marketing offensive, the sales volume of KylinWindows system quickly reached 2 times that of OS/10. The new operating system that IBM spent huge sums of money to develop can't even get back the money in the end.Faced with this ordeal, the originally ambitious "Oak Tree" development team was heartbroken, and even their team leader Joe Bridge sighed: "The hearts of the people are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead...".A few weeks after OS/2 went on the market, more than half of the once huge team of nearly 1000 people had left, and many even went directly to IBM's competitors.And Andrew unexpectedly came to the gate of VisualSystem Company by accident. He hesitated for a while in front of the gate, and finally made up his mind to walk in with his resume.Andrew's new life begins...
Life goes on, freed from IBM's close pursuit, Zhang Lexing always thinks of the group of Zhan Jun who has been silent for a long time. He hasn't paid attention to it for a long time, and he doesn't know if they have done anything.Zhang Lexing drove to the newly built production center of Blue Dragon Company last year, walked up to the second floor, gently pushed open the frosted glass partition, and came to the temporary work area of Zhan Jun and others.
There are not many people sitting in front of the computer, there are only six people in total, all of them are concentrating on playing the game, and there are many sleeping bags on the floor on the other side, most of them are sleeping, and there are snoring sounds of different tones from time to time, It seems that everyone has worked very hard during this time.Zhang Lexing walked in lightly, and casually glanced at the game screens of several people. It seemed that they were the same game, and Zhang Lexing felt a sense of deja vu.
Team leader Zhan Jun was also among the few players playing games, and his seat was relatively outside. Zhang Lexing walked over and patted him on the shoulder lightly.Zhan Jun looked back and saw Zhang Lexing, and was so nervous that he wanted to stand up immediately. Zhang Lexing waved his hand, signaling him to continue sitting, then moved the chair beside him and sat down, and asked in a low voice: "Is this game the result of your time?"
"Yes, it was made through the joint efforts of all of us. But because of the cost, it took a little longer." Zhan Jun replied.
Zhang Lexing took a closer look at the game screen and found that there were fewer types of colors in the screen: "Looking at the screen, it seems that the effect of "Three Kingdoms 2" made by RB's group is similar."
Zhan Jun explained: "Yes, considering the performance of the current mainstream platforms, we used the same high-score VGA screen (2×640) as "Three Kingdoms 480", and the colors are also 16 colors."
"Looking at how you operate, this should be a war chess game."
"Yes, this is a war chess game."
"Then why do you think of making this type of game?"
Zhan Jun began to introduce the origin of the game in detail: "When we started working on a new project last year, we never thought of a good idea. Later, Wen Dawei and I accidentally played a FC game "Fire Emblem - Dark Dragon and Light Sword" was made by a company called Square in RB. This game gave us inspiration. We can also make a game that mixes strategy and role-playing.
At the beginning, I also wanted to make a similar medieval background, but unfortunately, we are not very familiar with this style, and the game background written is too formatted.Later, I played "Three Kingdoms 2" made by RB's group, and found that the background of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was very suitable. It was familiar and convenient to adapt, so we decided to abandon the medieval background that we were not good at, and choose an era that everyone knew - the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the end of the year, it was divided into three countries.
The era background chose the Three Kingdoms period, so some material resources of "Three Kingdoms 2" can be used, which also reduces a lot of costs.The Three Kingdoms period has a long historical span. In order to control the scale of the game, we made reasonable choices. Starting from the eighteenth princes' alliance against Dong Zhuo, considering the relatively large influence of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", we designed two scripts in the game. Just in the famous Battle of Maicheng, if Guan Yu died, then Liu Bei's attack on Wu would happen as in the historical facts, and the incident of Baidi Tuogu happened.Another kind of script is the fictional Liu Bei's recovery of the Han Dynasty, in which many unexpected plots will happen.
The specific form of the game is the strategy part and role-playing part we envisaged before. The specific battle adopts the "walking", "advancement" and "turn-based confrontation" modes of the battle flag game. Of course, it also adds a lot of characteristics of the Three Kingdoms For example, different enemy strategies, trap design during defensive battles, etc., a role-playing mode is arranged between each battle. At this time, players can wander around, or supply supplies, or collect intelligence.
......"
Listening to Zhan Jun's introduction, Zhang Lexing's feeling of familiarity became more and more obvious. Isn't this "The Legend of Heroes in Romance of the Three Kingdoms".However, what Zhan Jun and the others designed seems to be more interesting. For example, battlefield traps can be installed before the battle in some situations. Of course, this requires certain props. In addition, the battlefield strategy is richer, and the battle screen is also designed more. The breath of war.
"It looks like the game should be almost finished."
"Well, it's almost there. We are doing the final test, and it is expected to be finished in about a week." Zhan Jun nodded.
"Is there a name for the game?"
"We thought about it. Heroes are often used to describe people with outstanding intelligence and courage in ancient books, so we plan to call this game "The Legend of Heroes of the Three Kingdoms". According to the content of the script, there is also a subtitle "Liu Bei Biography". If the market responds well, we will continue to We can do more series, such as Cao Cao, or the famous military strategist Zhuge Liang." Zhan Jun began to think about the future.
Not to mention, his ideas are really promising. Since then, there will be one less "Three Kingdoms Heroes" in the world, but a better "Three Kingdoms Heroes".
(End of the second volume...)
(End of this chapter)
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