Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

Bao Zixuan has refused all invitations since attending the banquet at Dong Mansion. Even the invitation from HSBC Shen Bi was not honored. He wanted to keep him cool for a while. These days, I have been discussing university planning and design matters with my roommates Martin Grieve and Romansky. Many people thought that Bao Zixuan became cautious after being injured and did not force him. After all, he had no friendship with the richest man in Hong Kong.

At the same time, we have not forgotten the two important projects currently under development by the company, namely home game consoles and digital cameras. As for game development, Miyamoto can handle it all by himself now; home appliance development still needs to be done step by step. Technical reserves are too weak. Lithography machines cannot be formed in a short time, otherwise China would not have been dominated by others in the field of lithography machines in the previous life.

After more than a year of hard work, Yokoi Junpei finally finalized the home game console and can now reach mass production levels. Looking at the game console in front of him, Bao Zixuan knew that Yu Yi had rushed to develop a home game console before Nintendo. However, I heard that Sony and Nintendo's game consoles are about to be developed, which is a stronger opponent than Atari.

Bao Zixuan said to the researcher: "Yokoi-kun, it's up to you to introduce the performance of this game console."

Yokoi Junpei: "Okay, President. According to your request, we will name this game console FC Famicom."

That’s right, Bao Zixuan takes over the name of Nintendo’s classic game console this time. There was nothing he could do about it. He was not very satisfied with the names the design department came up with, and he couldn't think of any particularly outstanding names. Since this game console name was successful in the previous life, it is not impossible to borrow it.

Not only is the name borrowed, but even the machine configuration is copied from Nintendo's settings. This puts no pressure on the current Heiyun, and the technical reserves are sufficient.

Yokoi Junpei continued: "The performance of our game console is 24 times that of Atari 2."

"Its CPU: Ricoh: 1.8MHz"

"Screen: The total number of colors is 52, and a maximum of 13 colors can be displayed on the same screen."

"Sound source: mono, 2 rectangular waves, 1 triangle wave, 1 noise, 1 PCM synthetic sound source"

"Family machine - Function of FC. FC uses an 8-bit central processor made by Heiyun chip. The memory and video memory are 2KB. It has a display controller (PPU) and the screen can display 2 layers of scrolls and 5 pages. Two of the background pages each occupy 1KB of video memory. Due to video memory limitations, only one process of sound generator (PSG) can be displayed at most. It can provide 4 analog channels and 1 PCM digital channel. The PCM digital channel performs continuously. background sound."

"The FC host has a reset switch, 1 power switch, 1 game card slot, 2 2-button handles (game controllers) with cross direction keys, and there are "Select" and "Start" buttons on the main handle . There are power interface, RF radio frequency output interface, video image output interface, and audio output interface on the back of the host. There is also an expansion port on the front for connecting external devices of the light gun."

"FC uses the image controller (PPU) developed by Ricoh and has 2KB of video memory. The color palette can display 48 colors and 5 grayscales. One screen can display rites), and the character format is 8x8 or 8x1 line drawing, which can display up to 8 Although a character can exceed this limit, it will cause the character to flicker."

"Architecturally speaking, FC has a pseudo-sound processor. In actual hardware, this processor is integrated in the 2A03 NMOS processor. The pAPU has two almost identical rectangular wave channels and one triangular wave channel built in. 1 noise channel and 1 audio sample playback channel (DCM, delta modulation method). 3 analog channels are used to play musical sounds, and 1 noise channel expresses special sound effects (explosions, gunfire, etc.), audio The sample playback channel can be used to represent continuous background sounds."

"The FC host has a reset switch, a power switch, a game card slot, two 2-button handles (game controllers) with cross direction keys, and there are "Select" and "Start" buttons on the main handle . There are power interface, RF radio frequency output interface, video image output interface, and audio output interface on the back of the host. There is also an expansion port on the front for connecting external devices such as light guns and additional burst handles."

"Listening to Junpei Yokoi's introduction, Bao Zixuan knew that this game console had reached the level of Nintendo 1. It was with the help of Black Cloud Computer Company's large number of software and hardware engineers that it could surpass this era."

Bao Zixuan continued: "What about games! How is our game conversion going?"

Yokoi Junpei said with a smile: "Then Miyamoto-kun will have to introduce it to the President."

Shigeru Miyamoto walked up to the front and said: "Your Excellency, President, colleagues. We have now completed the implantation of games such as Cube, Pac-Man, Snake, Senna, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders. The above games are available on FC Red. There is absolutely no problem running on the white machine. In addition, we are actively contacting major game development companies to enable users to play as many games as possible on our fc red and white machine. However, we have very strict control over the quality of the games, which cannot be achieved by ordinary games. Our demands are not progressing very quickly at the moment.”

Bao Zixuan felt a lot relieved when he heard this. Space Invaders had to spend a lot of money to get Taitung Co., Ltd. to agree to enter the FC red and white game console. Originally, their first choice was the Atari 2600.

Strict review of games is his strategy. I am worried that if pornographic and violent games are added to the Black Cloud Game Platform, the overall image of the group will be greatly damaged.

Bao Zixuan: "Everyone has been working hard recently, but next I have to ask Mr. Gucheng how the current production capacity is."

Jiro Furujo: "President, please rest assured. Since receiving the prototype, our manufacturing center has prefabricated the parts as soon as possible. If the horsepower is fully turned on, we can produce 30,000 FC red and white consoles every day. We will never delay the game. Please rest assured that the company is behind us.”

Now Heiyun's production capacity can be fully unleashed, and all parts of the game console are produced by CNC machine tools. Capacity adjustment is very fast.

Bao Zixuan: "Then let's go all out to produce! We must have confidence in our products, and we must trust Mr. Yokoi."

"By the way, how is the development of Super Mario and Contra games, Miyamoto-kun."

It has been a while since the last two games were launched. I believe that with the current development speed of Heiyun, there should be some clues, otherwise the efficiency will be too low.

Miyamoto had wanted to repay him for a long time, but he had just been talking about the FC red and white console and had no chance to talk about the two games.

Miyamoto Hat: "Now Super Mario has been developed and is undergoing final testing. All work will be completed by the end of this month. However, Contra will take at least 4 months. We have just set up the game algorithm. Contra is different For our previous games, all algorithms have to be started from scratch.”

Bao Zixuan knows that Super Mario can borrow many algorithms from Donkey Kong, which can save a lot of preparation time. Contra has all been recalculated, but I am still very satisfied with this speed. He has not interfered once since the project was established, and all work was completed by the team. This also proves that Heiyun Game Company's current strength is definitely at the top of the industry.

After returning to his office, Bao Zixuan looked at the development progress of all recent projects. He is not very satisfied with some of the results. The home appliance department is still not in the right state and is still resting on its laurels. It seems that we need to increase investment in this area, otherwise we will be eliminated sooner or later.

The research and development of lithography machines also needs to be stepped up, but now Sony's technology has been fully understood, which is a big improvement.

After returning to school, Bao Zixuan plans to enter the automotive field. Otherwise, it would be a waste to buy so many patents and put them away. Considering that there are so many research and development projects, I really can't be arrogant or complacent, otherwise it will be very dangerous.