Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 126 My Company Will Celebrate Chinese New Year

The personnel in the development hall are mainly responsible for the software projects currently being sold by Zheru America, among which the database EBase is the largest.

The reason is that a product like a database is too important for computer commercial use.

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

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

And 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. , 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 similar to SAP, UFIDA, and Kingdee in his previous life, so as to create an ERP with broader prospects. .

In this way, the foundation of philosophy and Confucianism hatched the third golden egg after microcomputers and video game consoles.

After making a joke to liven up 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.

Now Ni Guangnan's work focuses on topics such as Chinese cards, Chinese character coding, and associative input methods. Although Zheru's products already support Chinese, there is still a distance from Tang Huan's ideal.

And the mainland should start to study the "Chinese Character Coded Character Set for Information Interchange", 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 Katakana 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 mainland China. However, GB2312 cannot handle rare and traditional characters that appear in names, ancient Chinese, etc., but this 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 coverage of GBK in the previous life. Anyway, two bytes are also used, why not do better?
After the cost of computer memory is 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 solution of GB18030 in the previous life.

As a person of insight who came from time travel, I must lay a good foundation. This will bring great benefits to various industries in the future, and from the perspective of a businessman, I will turn my own product standards into industry standards. Even after national standards, the benefits obtained from it are self-evident.

In addition, according to the time roadmap that Tang Huan has set, after the spring 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,

"Didn't the company arrange a vacation for you?" Tang Huan greeted.

"It's not interesting to be alone in the New Year. It's better to stay here with the company, and it's convenient to eat." Everyone answered in the same way, a typical technical nerd who neglects to take care of daily life.

Tang Huan shook his head with a smile, "It seems that I heard you discussing the topic of text and voice just now, and have you brainstormed any new ideas?"

"We found that the current electronically synthesized speech technology in English has developed very well, so we asked Mr. Ni to discuss it." Shen Wangfu replied enthusiastically.

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

"Since you are all here, don't leave. In the evening, a buffet is prepared in the restaurant, and the whole company celebrates the Chinese New Year together." Tang Huan specifically reminded him.

After that, Tang Huan went to the 386 project team with the highest level of confidentiality to have a look. The prototypes of Intel8086 and MC68000 were almost completed and adjustments were being made, and he was waiting for Tang Huan's evaluation and approval.

At this time, Chambers and Simeone rushed over. The public events arranged by McKenna PR for Tang Huan were basically given to these two. , but it is as sweet as it is.

"I heard that you are going to hold a party for the employees of the company to celebrate the New Year. What is the content of the event?" Chambers asked curiously.

"You will know soon." Tang Huan smiled mysteriously, "Come on, come with me to EA for a while."

"Recently, a noteworthy new member has appeared in the spreadsheet software market, called SuperCalc, which can only run on the CP/M platform at present, and is also sold as a suite with WordStar." Simeone took a look at the report.

"8-bit personal computers are already very mature in terms of hardware. If manufacturers want to compete in sales this year, they will largely rely on our software development company." Tang Huan shook his head, "Look at it, from now on. , There must be a lot of software in the market that comes and goes in a hurry, and ends up as a flash in the pan.”

Hawkins had already received the news, greeted the three at the door, and then showed them around.

At present, EA has released more than 20 games, which are displayed in a dazzling array in the exhibition area. The most prominent positions are "Tetris" and "Pac-Man", and the packaging of the latter is very special, as beautiful as a record .

Tang Huan picked it up and took a closer look. The game developers were listed in the categories of producers, music, art, programming, etc., which were indeed similar to records.

"It's so creative." Tang Huan praised it sincerely, "No wonder "Pac-Man" sold 60 copies in one go."

Hawkins had a smug look on his face, but he said very modestly, "This inspiration actually comes from the product management method that you formulated before, boss. The alias of every game developer will appear on the product packaging, which is really clever. This kind of The motivational effect of the sense of honor sometimes exceeds the salary increase, and I just expanded on this basis."

"Don't be humble, you really 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 they can play baseball leagues in groups." Hawkins joked and brought the three of them into Shigeru Miyamoto's development team studio, where they were testing "Donkey Kong". Had a great time.

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

Tang Huan couldn't help but feel happy, saying that the talents he had worked so hard to poach finally began to shine.

Patting Shigeru Miyamoto on the shoulder, Tang Huan began to observe the effect of the game. The images of Mario, Donkey Kong, etc. were very delicate, and the characters flashed 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 idea came from the masterpiece "Popeye" in the GAME&WATCH series of handheld game consoles that were extremely popular in the early 1980s. ".

However, due to the failure of Nintendo to discuss the copyright of "Popeye" with the comic dealer, Shigeru Miyamoto had to temporarily modify the image of Bu Pai with a character wearing a red overalls and a funny big nose.At the same time, because the dot matrix image technology at that time could not express the hair and mouth well, Shigeru Miyamoto simply added a hat and beard to the character.

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

The sales of this game in RB were dismal, and Shigeru Miyamoto was hit hard, but it became a huge success in the United States in the past year. It is not known whether it is related to the Paramount movie "Popeye Live Action" which was released on December 1980, 12. .

In this time and space, Tang Huan will naturally not seek the copyright of "Popeye" like Nintendo did, as long as he made mistakes as before.

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

But Tang Huan thought about it, and there was no comparison at all. The "Donkey Kong" on the Xiaobawang game console platform is much better than the original arcade version of "Donkey Kong".

""Donkey Kong" should be operated as the flagship product after "Pac-Man." Tang Huan finished ordering Hawkins, and then patted Shigeru Miyamoto on the shoulder again, "Miyamoto, I hope that the little bully will be released in 1980 I can see your new work when I'm here."

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

At this time, the sound of gongs and drums came from outside, and Tang Huan lifted his spirits, "The New Year's Eve event I arranged has begun. Hurry up and inform all the employees. I personally paid for the party for everyone, and they all went to participate."

"By the way, don't forget to remind them that there are prizes to be won in the event, ranging from toys as small as color TVs, it all depends on one's luck." Tang Huan emphasized it specially.

Chambers, Simeone, and Hawkins looked at each other for a moment, and immediately realized that this was a family-friendly surprise arranged by the big boss, and they quickly went to inform their subordinates happily.

Tang Huan took Miyamoto Shigeru to the downstairs first, and saw a motorcade parked on the roadside. Two teams of people were doing a lion dance. It was very lively, and there were reporters from Fang's Newspaper taking pictures.

"The red envelopes are ready, there are 10 US dollars, 50 US dollars, and 100 US dollars." Tang Wenmao walked over quickly holding a small cardboard box and explained in detail.

"Miyamoto, come and try your luck. From 10 to 100 dollars, see how big a red envelope you can get." Tang Huan asked Shigeru Miyamoto to do it with a smile.

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

"You are really lucky. It seems that the game you made is going to be a hit." Tang Huan stuffed the box into Miyamoto's arms, and then asked Tang Wenmao, "How is the restaurant going?"

"It's ready." Tang Wenmao pointed with a smile, "Look, all the prizes for the event have been moved in."

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

Tang Huan took a loudspeaker and announced to the public, "Everyone is working very hard. Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, I have prepared some programs for you to relax. There are various small games in the restaurant with rich prizes. Just watch It's up to everyone."

In the end, it took only five or six minutes. There was a burst of cheers from the restaurant, and a cheerful guy jumped up and down to show off, "I won the color TV for the second time I played hoops, let's compare. "

Tang Huan took a closer look, and it turned out to be Mike who was always asking what kidney deficiency meant. He couldn't help being a little speechless.

Looking at the mess in front of him, Tang Wenmao laughed and said, "I don't know if these guys can live a happy New Year."

"It doesn't matter, after doing it a few more times, maybe it will become a scene in Silicon Valley." Tang Huan said casually, and then walked towards the restaurant, "I'm a master of rings, so I can't let that Mike specialize in the front. .”

(End of this chapter)