Chapter 165： home game console

Bao Zixuan has refused all invitations since he attended the banquet at the Dong Mansion. Even HSBC Shen Bi did not give face to him. He wanted to cool him down for a while. These days I've been discussing university planning and design with my roommates, Martin Griff and Romanski. Many people thought that Bao Zixuan became cautious after being injured and did not force it. After all, he had no friendship with the richest man in Hong Kong.

At the same time, it has not forgotten two important projects that the company is currently developing, home game consoles and digital cameras. As for game development, Miyamoto Hat can do it all by himself; home appliance development has to be done step by step. The technical reserve is too weak. The lithography machine can not be formed in a short time, otherwise Huaxia would not have been controlled by others in the field of lithography machine in the previous life.

After more than a year of hard work, Yokoi has finally completed the finalization of the home game console, and now it can reach the level of mass production. Looking at the game console in front of him, Bao Zixuan knew that he had developed a home game console before Nintendo. However, I heard that Sony and Nintendo's game consoles are about to be completed, which is a stronger opponent than Atari.

Bao Zixuan said to the researcher, "Yoki-kun, let me introduce the performance of this game console."

Yokoi Yokoi: "Okay, Your Excellency. According to your request, we will name this game console the fc red and white console."

That's right, Bao Zixuan occupies the name of Nintendo's classic game console this time. There was nothing he could do. He was not very satisfied with the several names given by the design department, and he couldn't think of any particularly outstanding names. Since the name of the game console in the previous life can be successful, 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 is no pressure for the current black cloud, and the technical reserves are sufficient.

Yokoi continued: "The performance of our game console has improved a lot compared to the Atari 2600, which is four times the performance of the current Atari 2600 game console."

"Its CPU: 6502 chip, main frequency: 1.8MHz"

"Screen: The total number of hair colors is 52, and the same screen can display up to 13 of them"

"Sound source: mono, 2 rectangular waves, 1 triangular wave, 1 noise, 1 PCM synthesized sound source"

"The function of the red and white machine-FC FC uses an 8-bit central processing unit made by a black cloud chip, and the memory and video memory are 2KB. A graphics controller (PPU) that can display 64 colors, and the screen can display 2 layers of scrolls. and 5 pages, of which 2 background pages occupy 1KB video memory each. Due to the limitation of video memory, only 16 colors can be displayed at most. A programmable sound generator (PSG) can provide 4 analog channels and 1 PCM digital channels, PCM digital channels represent continuous background sound.”

"On the FC console there is a reset switch, 1 power switch, 1 game card slot, 2 2-button joysticks (game controllers) with a cross-directional pad, and there are "select" and "start" buttons on the main joystick There are power interface, RF output interface, video image output interface, audio output interface on the back of the host. There is also an expansion port on the front, which is used to connect the external equipment of the light gun.”

"FC uses a picture controller (PPU) developed by Ricoh, has 2KB video memory, and the palette can display 48 colors and 5 grayscales. One screen can display 64 sprites, and the sprite format is 8x8 or 8x16 Pixels, a scanline can display up to 8 characters, although this limit can be exceeded, but it will cause characters to flicker."

"In terms of architecture, FC has a pseudo-sound processor. In actual hardware, this processor is integrated in the 2A03NMOS processor. The pAPU has built-in 2 almost identical rectangular wave channels, 1 triangle wave channel, 1 1 noise channel and 1 audio sample playback channel (DCM, delta modulation method). Among them, 3 analog channels are used for musical performances, and 1 noise channel is used for special sound effects (explosions, guns, etc.), audio samples The playback channel can be used to represent continuous background sounds.”

"The FC console has a reset switch, 1 power switch, 1 game card slot, 2 2-button joysticks (game controllers) with a cross-directional pad, and the main joystick has "select" and "start" buttons There are power interface, RF radio frequency output interface, video image output interface, audio output interface on the back of the host. There is also an expansion port on the front, which is used to connect external equipment such as light gun and additional burst handle.”

"Listening to Yokoi Junpei's introduction, Bao Zixuan knows that this game console has reached the level of Nintendo in 1986. This is the result of the help of a large number of software and hardware engineers from Heiyun Computer Company, so that it can surpass this era."

Bao Zixuan continued, "What about the game! How's our game transformation going?"

Yokoi Junhei said with a smile, "Then ask Miyamoto-kun to introduce you to the president."

Shigeru Miyamoto went to the front and said: "Your Excellency President, my colleagues. We have now completed the implantation of Xiangjiang Cube, Pac-Man, Snake, Legend of Senna, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and other games. The above games are in fc red. There is absolutely no problem with running on the white machine. In addition, we are still actively contacting major game development companies, so that users can play more games on our fc red and white machine as much as possible. But we are very strict about the quality of games. Our request, the current progress is not very fast."

Bao Zixuan was relieved to hear this. The Space Invaders paid a lot of money to get Taidong Co., Ltd. to agree to enter the fc red and white game console. Originally, their first choice was the Atari 2600.

Strict game review is his strategy. Just worrying about the addition of pornographic and violent games to the Heiyun game platform will cause great loss to the overall image of the group.

Bao Zixuan: "Everyone has been working hard recently, but I will ask Gu Chengjun, how is the current production capacity?"

Gucheng Jiro: "Your Excellency President, please rest assured that our manufacturing center has prefabricated the parts for the first time since we received the prototype. If the horsepower is full, it can produce 30,000 fc red and white machines per day. It will never delay the game. The company's hind legs, please rest assured."

Now Black Cloud's production capacity can be fully released, and all parts of the game console are produced by CNC machine tools. The capacity adjustment is very fast.

Bao Zixuan: "Then let's do our best to produce! We must have confidence in our products, and UUkanshu must believe in Yokoi-kun."

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

It has been a while since the last time these two games were established. I believe that the current research and development speed of Heiyun should be a little bit obvious, otherwise the efficiency will be too low.

Miyamoto has long wanted to repay, but he has just been talking about the FC red and white machines, and he has no chance to talk about the two games.

Miyamoto Hat: "Now that Super Mario has been developed, and the final test is being done, all the work can be completed by the end of this month. However, Contra will take at least 4 months, and we have just finished setting up the game algorithm. Contra is different. As with our previous games, all the algorithms have to be reinvented."

Bao Zixuan knew that Super Mario could borrow many algorithms from Donkey Kong, which could save a lot of preparation time. Contra all recalculated, but still very satisfied with this speed. Since the project was established, he has not asked once, and all the work is done by the team. This also proves that the current strength of Black Cloud Games is definitely the top in the industry.

After returning to his office, Bao Zixuan watched the development progress of all recent projects. He was not very satisfied with some results. Now the home appliance department has not entered the state, and is still living on its own. It seems to increase this investment, or it will be eliminated sooner or later.

The research and development of lithography machines should also be stepped up, but now that Sony's technology has been completely understood, this 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 back. Thinking about so many R&D projects, I really can't feel complacent, otherwise it will be very dangerous.

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