Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Why, are you worried that the crew of 007 won't be able to use the money? Tang Huan laughed at Andy Albert's surprise, I know a lot about Octopus Girl and there are many articles in it. Can do.

However, until now, the actor to play James Bond has not been determined. Due to Warner's disruption, they feel that it is best to continue to use Roger Moore from the original team for safety. Andy Albert Trying out Tang Huan's thoughts.

Their concerns are very reasonable. Tang Huan pondered for a moment, The reason why Roger Moore doesn't want to renew his contract is nothing more than two reasons. Everyone is not happy with the cooperation, and he dislikes the low salary. In this way, you can go out and talk about it yourself. , to show our sincerity with practical actions.”

The bottom line in terms of pay...

I remember that Sean Connery's last two James Bond films were paid a fixed amount plus royalties or a percentage of the box office, so raise Roger Moore's basic film salary, a few million dollars, you can figure it out , the method of dividing it should be avoided as much as possible.”

Understood, I'll do it myself right away, time is a bit tight now. Andy Albert ended the call hastily.

See, Warner has attacked us from both video games and movies. Tang Huan spread his hands jokingly.

Hawkins followed with a smile, Atari will release the Atari 2600's successor product, the Atari 5200, at this dex. Although the detailed hardware specifications are not yet known, it is certain that the Atari 5200 is not compatible. Atari 2600.

Is this the way to regain the control of the hardware platform that was lost to Atari 2600? Tang Huan thought for a while, That's fine, since Atari is so eager to get ahead, let it explore the way. To see how the market reacts is also a good way to assess the chances of success of this approach.”

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Influential large-scale exhibitions often play a positive and positive role in promoting the economy of the host city to some extent.

This year's dex came to Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and is famous for its Corniche Convention Center and Casino. It is the largest casino on the east coast of the United States.

After Tang Huan finished bragging to people from all walks of life on the dex forum, he began to conduct private interviews in the exhibition hall on Weibo, because there were many new faces in this exhibition.

It has to be said that where there is money to be made, capital with a keen sense of smell will jump there.

As Hawkins mentioned, Atari released the Atari 5200, the next-generation product of the Atari 2600, and its performance made Tang Huan feel relieved, but also quite disappointed.

Put it bluntly. Atari really doesn't have any dry goods in its stomach. The so-called next-generation home video game console, the Atari 5200, is just a modified version of its personal computer product, the Atari 400/800.

What's especially terrible is that the Atari 5200, which is not compatible with the Atari 2600, has no ace games on the new platform except for a few demo games.

With this little thing, the Atari 5200 can't even compare with the 1981 version of the Little Overlord game console!

Could it be said that Atari in Silicon Valley just rushed to hand over a job to Warner's high-level executives in New York? This is too fooling father.

Tang Huan shook his head speechlessly. He had originally hoped that the Atari 5200, which started all over again to fight for the control of the game platform, would be able to find the way. Looking at the situation now, it is considered lucky not to be stillborn.

Compared to Atari's lackluster launch of a new home video game console. It is eye-catching.

It can also be called an old-fashioned company. It was established in 1932. At the beginning, it mainly produced leather products. After entering the 1950s and 1960s, it switched to plastic products and toys.

In the 1970s when Atari pioneered the video game industry, it keenly grasped this opportunity and began to enter this field in 1976.

So, it worked out like this. It is also quite qualified, and this product can be called excellent.

The cpu used in current home video game consoles. Basically, there are two options - the z80 series and the series adopt the former - the second supply source version of 3.58mhz.

None of these specs really stand out, as it claims to offer near-arcade-quality graphics and playstyle.

This also means that a lot of thought has been spent on the hardware design of the entire system, and the mystery lies in the video processor it uses - Texas Instruments' tms9928a, and the b graphics memory it carries.

Tang Huan took a closer look at the selling point of the promotion, and found that it was not an exaggeration. The effect it achieved even posed the most direct threat to EA's 1981 version of the Little Overlord game console.

At the same time, it has carefully prepared the supporting games that can be run on the hardware platform of the new game console. A total of 12 new games have been released, and it is also announced that 10 new games will be released within this year.

It seems that in the North American market, after EA's Xiaobawang game console, Atari's Atari 2600, and Mattel's, it will become the fourth important game console platform.

Tang Huan nodded and smiled playfully, It's just a pity that this product is not produced at the right time. It's hard to get a good market for a year.

After sighing with regret, Tang Huan continued to browse, and soon he saw the products worthy of his eyes-the company's products.

Rex is a home game console with vector display, which is different from electronic game consoles such as Xiaobawang game consoles and Atari 2600, which are connected to TVs and use raster graphics. In addition to providing game consoles, manufacturers also have matching vector displays.

Only black and white are supported, by covering the plastic screen. to simulate colors, various static graphics and decorations, etc.

In fact, there are many types of mainstream arcade games at this stage. Using vector graphics, rex licensed such high-quality games while introducing the technology to home video game consoles.

The cpu used by the rex game console is Motorola's 8-bit microprocessor - 1.5mhz, and the external devices are light pens and ray pens.

After playing the random built-in game rm for a while, Tang Huan nodded with satisfaction. Although this thing is a bit niche, it definitely has a market and is full of creativity. Worthy of recognition.

After glancing at the $199 retail price tag, Tang Huan casually ordered his followers, Record it, find a suitable opportunity, and acquire this company.

Because there were not many people watching the excitement at this booth, so the service staff were not too busy. Seeing that Tang Huan was very interested in his products, he found a chance to come over to strike up a conversation, and just happened to hear what Tang Huan was talking about. content.

Sir, you are so interested in our products. Are you going to buy one? the other party asked happily.

It's so boring to buy only one game console. If you want to buy it, you can buy your company. After the assistant replied with a smile, he caught up with Tang Huan's departure.

Crazy... A company employee who feels that he has been teased. He cursed angrily in a low voice.

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This year, EA did not make major adjustments to the hardware of the first generation of Xiaobawang game consoles. It only optimized external devices such as handles. I can wait for the second generation Xiaobawang game console.

Of course, it is impossible for ea to sit idle and do nothing. Its work results are mainly reflected in the software field. Except for the Japanese company Shigeru Miyamoto and others who continue to launch games on the Xiaobawang game console platform, the American company has been cooperating with Philosophy. Ru's graphics processor project, and the Fangyuan computer platform. Improve the game engine and launch video games on the personal computer platform.

That is. EA wants to build Fangyuan Computer into its second game platform, and has transplanted a large number of best-selling games on the Xiaobawang game console platform. It also launched beta versions of two new PC games -- the turn-based Monopoly and Grand Voyage.

Therefore, an interesting phenomenon appeared on dex. Many people took the demo disks of Monopoly and Great Voyage as a standard to choose the Fangyuan computer and its compatibles that suit their wishes.

This shows how popular these two games are, especially Great Voyage.

You know, the Fisher treasure hunting fleet under the name of Tang Huan not only found the wealth left by the Spanish treasure ship in the age of great navigation, but also discovered the Titanic this year, which has become a legend.

Against such a background, the Great Voyage video game launched in a timely manner, has become the focus of attention of the industry and game fans since EA released the product rumors.

EA's Monopoly and Great Voyage, even compared with the first versions of similar games in the original time and space, the visual effects are still much worse. After all, the performance of the current personal computer system is there.

However, players at this stage are not demanding in this regard.

Therefore, Monopoly and Great Voyage, which are full of playability and connotation, immediately touched the hearts of the public as soon as they appeared.

Ordinary people can only lament that EA, the leader in the video game industry, is really diligent in innovation, but people with insight have noticed that EA is increasingly investing resources in the personal computer platform, and thus launched various developments. This kind of analysis can be regarded as supporting a large number of media people.

Compared with EA's business strategy that makes people look at flowers in a fog, the intention of Fangyuan Computer and Zheru Software is upright and clear at a glance, that is, to actively expand the sound processing capabilities and application fields of microcomputers.

To this end, Zheru launched two softwares: audio editing software and composition software, which make the functions of Fangyuan computer very intuitive.

Almost all the hackers who teamed up to create a product acceptable to the public were music lovers, and the pursuit of freedom represented by personal computers breaking through the monopoly privilege of mainframe computers also won the favor of artists.

Therefore, there has always been a subtle relationship between personal computers and avant-garde artists, and the creation process of , and , has professional support from musicians.

then. The Fangyuan computer, which has become more and more outstanding in terms of sound function, has quickly been recognized by people in the American music industry.

Of course, this benefit is not unique to Fangyuan Computer, and its increasingly powerful compatible machine camp has also shared the benefits.

However, Tang Huan was not satisfied with these progresses, and he decided to make a big push in the second half of the year.

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As for the opponent of Fangyuan Computer's standard camp - the ibm-standard camp, it is a bit lonely on dex.

Compared with the lively atmosphere where Fangyuan Computer has compatible machine allies such as HP and Japanese manufacturers, Big Blue is still singing a one-man show.

Fortunately, the troika on its platform - spreadsheet, word processing, and database - is thriving, which can be regarded as the harvest of Don Estrich's previous active layout.

Because except for the purpose of attracting customers, Zheru will not develop products on the ibm-platform with the same functions as the Fangyuan computer platform, so there are fewer suppressed software providers, and the competition on the ibm-platform is very fierce.

For example, in the field of spreadsheets, those who take advantage of the first-mover advantage to gain technological advantages increase the product price from US$100 per copy to US$250 to increase profits. compete.

Especially for Microsoft, under Gates' painstaking efforts to learn from others everywhere, he has increasingly shown his advantage of learning from others.

However, Tang Huan still couldn't see the achievements of these entrants, and those who could survive in two years were called real heroes.

In this way, Tang Huan still quietly continued his plan to buy all kinds of fresh meat on dex. (to be continued)

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