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Chapter 179 ie1.0

Peter de la Sante bought a TV set with DazzleTV.

Ever since he was inexplicably asked to write a "Zombie Survival Manual" by DreamWorks last time, he was shocked by the release of "Night of the Living Dead" this year.

He originally thought that the "Zombie Survival Manual" was about to be released, but in fact there was no news.

"Why do I think the picture is concave?"

His wife looked at the screen strangely.

"Probably because the pictures we saw before were all convex."

Pete actually thinks that the Dazzling TV is very good.

"Don't you think the color is nice?"

Indeed, compared to the spherical TV, Catherine's TV is indeed very powerful in terms of display effect. After all, the technology used by the Dazzling TV can be said to be the highest technology that can be developed for CRT monitors.

"I heard that IBM is going to launch laser discs. Maybe we can watch movies at home in the future."

His wife said again.

"But our Dazzling TV doesn't have an RGB interface... Okay, I get it." Old Pete just wanted to refute, but when he saw his wife glare at him, he could only give up.

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But at this time, Catherine's company was extremely busy.

Catherine is counting the flow of funds at her disposal.

The reason is very simple - next year will be the third Middle East war. Although it will not last long, you can still make some money by yourself.

The most optimistic estimate is that I can probably double this amount of money.

In addition to these things, Catherine was on the other side, using the ID of "Angela", discussing online game issues with netizens.

Catherine has already shipped a computer with 8 CPU cores to this man named Gregory through FedEx. If the other party can really develop something good, Catherine does not mind continuing to support him.

However, when discussing the issue, everyone still had some differences about the game.

Gregory believed that the system should adopt a plain text approach.

Catherine believes that it is best to make the system work with the mouse, and it is best to have a text map or the like.

In Catherine's impression of the MUD game, whether it is moving on the map or fighting monsters, you must enter lines of code. Some MUDs require hundreds of codes, but for Catherine who came from later generations, such complexity

The operation is really frustrating.

So Catherine believes that the system can use text to simulate pictures.

This practice was often seen in later generations.

By clicking with the cursor, you can perform operations such as movement and attack, which is really great for this game.

However, they are still very enthusiastic about the specific design of game content.

They decided to make a world model based on Catherine's "Faerun".

Gregory created the professions of warrior and magician.

However, the guy named Mr. Feng Yue thinks that open-ended professions can be adopted, such as blacksmith, restaurant owner, etc. This is completely based on reality, not a game.

Mud is a little different from the fast-food online games of the future. In this purely text-based game, sometimes what people play is a kind of life.

Therefore, after MUD developed towards online games, the most essential part of MUD has been lost. Relying on the graphical interface, a fast-food culture emerged.

For businessmen, there is nothing wrong with speeding up the pace of the game so that the game can make people get high.

But Catherine was not thinking about making money at this time. In fact, she had not considered making money in online games at all - at least not in the past ten years. After all, the current network coverage is too low, and computers are basically useless.

Not much penetration rate.

Catherine still somewhat agrees with Mr. Fengyue in this regard.

But soon, that Aikul put forward new opinions.

Why not let players make their own choices later in the game? The game can start with the player creating a character.

By cultivating the character's words and deeds, we determine the character's initial attributes at the beginning of the game. At the same time, players can also choose their own profession in the middle of the game.

At the beginning, everyone can be unemployed, and then they can achieve their goals by looking for a job or something.

Aikul obviously hasn't played Catherine's Magic Battle chess series, but it's fun for her to give her opinion.

Isn’t this a development game?

Just as Catherine was chatting online, another piece of good news came.

The California Institute of Technology also came to the door. After learning about the network, their person in charge came to inquire about the situation.

The Internet is a good thing that Catherine has always wanted to promote.

And now, California Institute of Technology, one of the eight Ivy League schools, is actually interested in the Internet, which means that its network is one step closer to success.

Donald is a savvy advertiser, and his advertisements target universities. Because of his efforts, an advertisement about the Internet is now played every day across California. This is a short film about students using intercom.

Pleasant experience.

However, now Catherine does not lay the optical cable for free like before, but the cost of laying the optical cable is shared equally.

However, Catherine still provided 100 free Microsoft II computers for use.

As for advertisers, they still haven't decided yet. After all, the market is limited, and there are only a few hundred people at the moment.

Catherine planned that although the Internet is only available in universities, this does not mean that the Internet must be available to college students.

She plans to open up online registration so that people with network ID can log in to the system.

However, Catherine should discuss this matter with each university.

Catherine plans to adopt a fee-based model, just like the Internet cafes in her previous life.

As long as the school can generate considerable profits under this model, Catherine believes that they will definitely increase the proportion of computers, so that the influence of computers will continue to increase...

In addition to these things, what Catherine has to do now is to develop a new browser.

The system's native browser is really not powerful. After all, the current system must be streamlined enough.

But the browser Catherine is making now is different. It is a browser that can realize domain name jumping and cursor control.

Catherine originally planned to design a graphical interface, but it was unrealistic to do so on an 8-bit CPU. However, if a 16-bit CPU could be developed, things would be completely different.

The web page uses HTML language and can use a variety of backgrounds. Of course, the so-called backgrounds are only blue, red, black, white, and gray.

This language was developed by Catherine herself. After all, historically HTML was only available in the late 1980s and early summer.

But now Catherine can only have no conditions, and she has to create conditions.

While designing the browser, Catherine suddenly thought of that game.

Maybe... the game can also adopt a method similar to future web games?

Make a table and then fill it with the text background color to make some ideographic maps, such as gray representing city walls and blue representing rivers.

As long as it's all in the form of text, wouldn't it be fine?

Catherine suddenly felt that her idea was very good.

For a game like this, we can't ask for too much. We can only hope that everyone can intuitively understand some of the connotations of this game.

If it really doesn't work, you can supplement it with a text description, for example, this is a dark cave or something.

As for the rest...you can only rely on your imagination.

Catherine named this browser ie1.0.

Catherine made some specific plans for the web page, and then left the programming and other tasks to the following. Catherine, on the other hand, began to think about another issue - the optical drive.

The storage capacity of today's computers is pitifully small. The emergence of optical discs will gradually improve this weakness of computers.

Of course, Catherine also knows that optical discs have great limitations. Many optical discs can only be read and cannot be written. Therefore, plans to develop hard disks are also indispensable.

In Intel's laboratory, 16-bit CPUs are already on the agenda.

16-bit CPU will be a huge revolution for computers.

Historically, SFC game consoles used 16-bit CPUs. The original Sony company also developed optical drives for SFC, and finally broke up with Nintendo on bad terms, and then started producing PS.

Of course, even if the CPU reaches 16 bits, the difference in frequency and performance is quite large.

However, with a 16-bit CPU, it means that 16-bit sampling can be used, which means that the birth of CD records will also enter the countdown.

In addition to the CPU, there are also graphics cards and memory.

Catherine's computer is currently using PPU, while the famous GPU is still in the pipeline and has not yet appeared.

As for memory, computers in Catherine's era in the future can theoretically reach 192gb, but now...it can reach 1b, I'm afraid many people will laugh secretly.

Therefore, it is necessary to find ways to reduce the cost of memory.

After all, the bucket effect is there.

The bucket effect means that in order for a bucket to be filled with water, each wooden board must be even and undamaged. If one of the wooden boards of the bucket is uneven or there is a hole under a certain wooden board, the bucket will not be able to hold it.

Full of water.

The performance of the computer depends on the shortest piece of the bucket, not the longest piece.

"Sigh... When can I use the wind95 system..." Catherine sighed. Her requirements were not actually high, but the cruel reality told her that sometimes even if the requirements are not high, the ruthless reality will

Let this unrealistic fantasy turn into nothingness...