Rebirth of the Tech Madman

　　The personnel in the development hall are mainly responsible for the software projects currently on sale by Zheru America. Among them, the database EBase is the largest in the world.

　　The reason is that the product of database is too important for computer commercial use.

While building and improving the basic functional modules of finance, sales, warehouse, purchasing, and human resources around EBase, Zheru began to develop horizontally and vigorously expand the application fields, and developed independent information processing systems for libraries, supermarkets, and hotels. .

　　EBase includes several components in logical function: core database engine, query system, form system, and a simple and easy-to-use SQL scripting language version -ZeroneSQL, also referred to as Z-SQL.

Many people in the EBase project team are specially recruited industry experts in non-computer professional fields such as hotel management. It is they who use EBase's query system, form system, and Z-SQL, with the cooperation of programmers. , Developed practical information processing systems for various industries.

Tang Huan thought in his heart that as this business grew bigger and bigger, he could start preparing for an independent establishment, and set up an industry information solution provider like SAP, UFIDA, and Kingdee in the previous life to build a more promising ERP. .

　　 In this way, the foundation of philosophers, after microcomputers and electronic game consoles, hatched the third golden egg.

　　 After making a joke and enlivening the atmosphere, Tang Huan walked through the development hall and inspected other project teams. He happened to see Shen Wangfu and some Chinese engineers discussing something around Ni Guangnan.

　　 At present, Ni Guangnan's work is still focused on topics such as Chinese characters, Chinese character encoding, and association input methods. Although Zheru's products already support Chinese, it is still a long way from Tang Huan's ideals.

　　 And the mainland should start studying the "Chinese Character Coded Character Set for Information Exchange", which is the GB2312-80 in the previous life.

This program contains a total of 6763 Chinese characters, including 3755 first-level Chinese characters and 3008 second-level Chinese characters. It also includes 682 characters including Latin letters, Greek letters, Japanese hiragana letters, and Russian Cyrillic letters. It can basically meet the computer processing needs of Chinese characters.

The Chinese characters it contains cover 99.75% of the frequency of use in the mainland, but GB2312 cannot handle the rare and traditional characters that appear in names, ancient Chinese, etc., but this is precisely the point that is very important for cultural exchanges in Greater China. .

　　 Regarding the Chinese character encoding scheme, Tang Huan’s standard is to at least reach the scope of GBK in the previous life. Anyway, two bytes must be used. Why not do it better?

After 　　 and other computer memory costs are further reduced, Tang Huan also plans to upgrade to support simplified and traditional Chinese characters as well as Japanese and Korean Chinese characters, similar to the GB18030 in the previous life.

I am a person of insight who has traveled through, and I must lay a good foundation. This will bring great benefits to various industries in the future, and from the perspective of the businessman, I will turn my own product standards into industry standards. Even after the national standard, the benefits derived from it are self-evident.

　　 In addition, according to Tang Huan's planned time and road map, after the beginning of this year, this plan will be sent back to the mainland and submitted to relevant agencies for discussion and strive to be fully adopted.

　　 Under this goal, Ni Guangnan’s workload can be imagined.

　　 "Did the company arrange holidays for you?" Tang Huan said hello.

　　 "There is a lonely family, it's not interesting for the New Year, it's better to stay at the company, and it is convenient to eat." Everyone answered the same thing, a typical technical house that neglected to take care of daily life.

　　 Tang Huan smiled and shook his head, "It seems that I heard you discuss the topic of text and voice just now, what new ideas have you brainstormed?"

　　 "We found that the current electronic synthetic speech technology in English has been developed very well, and then we asked Teacher Ni to discuss it." Shen Wangfu answered enthusiastically.

　　 In terms of sound card research and development, Shen Wangfu's progress is quite good. The 1980 version of the Xiaobawang game console has integrated this result and is scheduled to be launched in the middle of the year.

　　 "Since they are all here, don't leave. The restaurant has prepared a buffet in the evening, and the whole company will spend the Chinese New Year together." Tang Huan specifically exhorted.

After 　　, Tang Huan went to the 386 project team with the highest degree of confidentiality to take a look. The prototypes of Intel8086 and MC68000 were almost completed, and adjustments were in progress, and then he waited for Tang Huan’s evaluation and approval.

At this time, Chambers and Simeone rushed over. The public events that McKenna Public Relations arranged for Tang Huan were basically given to these two to show off. With both fame and fortune, they were too busy to die. , But it is so sweet.

　　 "I heard that you are going to give company employees a New Year, a party, fun, what activities?" Chambers asked curiously.

　　 "You will know soon." Tang Huan pretended to smile mysteriously, "Go, let me go to EA together for a while."

　　 "Recently, there has been a noteworthy new member in the spreadsheet software market, called SuperCalc, which can only run on the CP/M platform at present, and it also forms a package with WordStar for sale." Simone took a look at the Kongzihui report.

"8-bit personal computers are already very mature in terms of hardware. This year, manufacturers have to rely on our software development company if they want to fight for sales." Tang Huan shook his head, "Look at it, from now on. , There must be a lot of software on the market that came and went in a hurry, and ended in a flash in the pan."

　　 Hawkins had received the news, greeted the three people at the door, and then took them on a tour.

At present, there are more than 20 games released by EA, which are dazzlingly displayed in the exhibition area. The most conspicuous positions are "Tetris" and "Pac-Man", and the packaging of the latter is very special, and the exquisite ones are just like the record. .

　　 Tang Huan took it up and looked at it. The game developers listed them according to categories such as producer, music, art, programming, and so on, which is indeed similar to the form of a record.

　　 "It's creative." Tang Huan praised it heartily. "No wonder "Pac-Man" sold 600,000 copies in one go."

Hawkins was proud of his face, but he was very humble, "This inspiration actually comes from the product management method that your boss has formulated before. Every game developer's pseudonym will appear on the product packaging. It is really clever. The incentive effect of the sense of honor sometimes surpasses the salary increase, and I just expanded it on this basis."

　　 "Don't be humble, you did a good job." Tang Huan waved his hand, "How is the expansion of the game production team now?"

"There are already 16 project teams, and you can play baseball leagues in groups." Hawkins joked and took the three into Shigeru Miyamoto's development team studio, and saw that they were testing "Donkey Kong". Have a great time.

　　 After seeing Tang Huan, Shigeru Miyamoto was very excited, "Boss, my first work is finished."

　　 Tang Huan is also unbelievably happy, saying that the talents he has worked hard to dig are finally beginning to shine.

　　 patted Shigeru Miyamoto on the shoulder, and Tang Huan began to observe the effects of the game. The images of Mario, Donkey Kong, etc. were very delicate, and the characters flickered and moved extremely smoothly.

In the original time and space, Mario's debut in the game industry can be traced back to the Nintendo arcade game "Donkey Kong" in 1980. The originality comes from the masterpiece of Nintendo's smashing handheld game console GAME&WATCH series in the early 1980s. Popeye".

　　 But because Nintendo and the comics company failed to discuss the copyright of Popeye, Shigeru Miyamoto had to temporarily modify the image of Pupai with a character wearing a red overalls and a funny big nose. At the same time, because the dot-matrix technology at the time could not express the hair and mouth well, Miyamoto simply added a hat and a beard to the character.

　　 Mario, synonymous with home electronic game consoles, was born.

The game’s sales in Japan were dismal, and Shigeru Miyamoto was hit hard, but it has been a big success in the United States over the past few years. I don’t know if it is related to the Paramount movie "Popeye Live Action", which was released on December 12, 1980. .

　　 In this time and space, Tang Huan would naturally not seek the copyright of "Popeye" like Nintendo did. It would be nice to be wrong as before.

　　 I just don’t know whether "Donkey Kong" will still be popular in the United States without all sorts of mistakes.

　　 However, Tang Huan turned to think about it. There is no comparability. Now the "Donkey Kong" on the Xiaobawang game console platform is much better than the original arcade version of "Donkey Kong".

"Donkey Kong" will be operated as a hit product after "Pac-Man". Tang Huan finished with Hawkins, and then patted Shigeru Miyamoto on the shoulder again. "Miyamoto, I hope that the mid-year King will be launched in 1980." I can see your new work when I am coming."

　　 Shigeru Miyamoto nodded vigorously, as if he died for his confidant.

　　At this time, there was the sound of gongs and drums outside, and Tang Huan's spirits lifted up, "The Chinese New Year event I arranged has started, and I quickly notify all the employees. I personally paid for the party for everyone and all went to attend."

　　 "By the way, don't forget to remind them that there are prizes available for the event, ranging from toys to color TV sets, depending on personal luck." Tang Huan emphasized.

　　 Chambers, Simeone, and Hawkins looked at each other for a while, and immediately realized that this was an unexpected surprise in the form of a family carnival by the big boss, and they happily went to inform their subordinates.

　　 And Tang Huan took Miyamoto to the downstairs first, and saw a motorcade parked on the side of the road. The two teams were dancing lions. It was very lively, and there was a reporter from Fang's newspaper nearby taking pictures.

　　 "The red envelopes are ready, there are 10 dollars, 50 dollars, 100 dollars." Tang Wenmao walked over with a small carton box and explained it specifically.

　　 "Miyamoto, try your luck, from 10 to 100 dollars to see how big red envelopes you can draw. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Tang Huan smiled and let Shigeru Miyamoto do it.

　　 "100 dollars." The lucky Shigeru Miyamoto yelled happily.

　　 "The luck is really good. It seems that the game you made is going to be a big hit." Tang Huan shoved the box into Miyamoto's arms, and then asked Tang Wenmao, "How is the layout of the restaurant?"

　　 "It's done." Tang Wenmao smiled and pointed, "Look, all the prizes for the event have been moved in."

　　At this time, the hundreds of people from Zheru and EA came outside one after another. Seeing such a lively scene, many people were joking and jumping around the lion dance team.

Tang Huan took over a loudspeaker and announced in public, "Everyone is working very hard. Taking advantage of the opportunity to celebrate the Chinese New Year, I have prepared some programs for you to relax. There are various mini games in the restaurant with generous prizes. Just watch. Everyone is capable."

In the end, it was only five or six minutes. There was cheers from the restaurant, and a cheerful guy hopped over to show off, "I got the color TV the second time I played the ring, you guys come to Bibi. "

　　 Tang Huan took a closer look. It turned out that it was Mike who was asking everywhere about the meaning of kidney deficiency. He couldn't help being a little speechless. This is really a ruler.

　　 Looking at the mess in front of him, Tang Wenmao said with a smile: "I don't know if these guys can spend a new year."

"It's okay, after a few more times, it might become a scene in Silicon Valley." Tang Huan said casually, and walked to the restaurant. "I'm a ring master, I can't let that Mike specialize in beauty." ."