Chapter 38 The Sweeping Monk
Although everyone is a leader and professional in the industry, this is the first time I have seen these game devices.
Before, they only saw these things in professional journals and academic papers they brought back from abroad.
As for the 4 Apple computers, everyone is familiar with them. Some people have even started to operate them.
After everyone was fresh for more than ten minutes, Lin Ping took out a few screwdrivers.
"The first thing we do today is to recognize and experience what an electronic game console is. At the same time, we need to see the design logic of others. What we need to do now is to disassemble these four Atari 2600s. I hope that those with ability will form a group to draw this game console and all the circuit drawings." The first thing Lin Ping needs to do is to let everyone fully see the design of this game console.
Soon, the four game consoles were disassembled on four tables.
After 50 people were divided into 4 piles, they didn't seem so messy.
"This gaming console uses a 8-bit1.19MHZ 6507 CPU..."
"128bytes of RAM and 6Kb of ROM memory..."
"Game disk capacity 4KB..."
In front of these professors and teachers, the game console after dismantling was instantly grasped by everyone.
"I'll talk about the specific configuration requirements of our gaming console. I require our central processor frequency to reach 1.8MHZ. Both RAM and ROM must reach 4KB. This is a huge improvement for the Atari 2600. In addition, we also need to add this gaming console, the image controller PPU that was originally not available, in order to make the picture better. At the same time, we also need to add a programmable sound generator in terms of sound. In addition, our gaming disk capacity must reach 64KB! "The configuration order issued by Lin Ping is completely in accordance with the configuration of the Nintendo red and white machine!
It is hard for modern people to imagine that the capacity of a gaming disk was only 4KB.
The Super Mary Eight Level Game is only 32KB, and Conra is only 48KB.
When the late 1990s, there were 999 in 1, 999 in 1, and even 999 in 1, the gaming cassette chips of this era had already undergone earth-shaking changes, with large capacity and low price.
After everyone heard Lin Ping’s request, everyone did not think that the configuration requirement was too excessive.
It's just a stack of hardware. As long as you have money, try to stack chips as much as possible, and it can fully meet the configuration he requires.
"I hope everyone can fully understand all the designs of Atari 2600 within one week. Then in the remaining three weeks, it depends on everyone whether it can be done. If nothing is done tonight, everyone can play every game console here as much as possible. In a while, I will send someone to dinner, so everyone won't have to go to the cafeteria. In the future, all suppers and midnight snacks will be arranged by the electronic game club." Lin Ping hopes that everyone will be working overtime on the first day. Sure enough, as long as they become the boss, 996 doesn't seem so difficult to accept.
"Professor Lin's design is not very difficult, it is far lower than my expectations. I originally thought that Professor Lin wanted to develop a personal computer system. Professor Lin asked for no problem with 4KB RAM and ROM. In October 1978, we developed a 4KB chip in China. In 1979, it was last year, and it was put into production at the 109th Plant of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In this regard, we were only six years slower than the other side of the ocean. But what I want to say is that the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a 16K chip and plans to be fully put into production after the New Year. As for the operating speed of central processing 1.8, this is even more not a problem. Shanghai Radio Factory No. 5 has successfully copied it and optimized the design to a running speed of 2.0. In addition, Professor Lin's request for the addition of PPUs and sound generators also have mature products." Someone said a lot of data that shocked Lin Ping.
Lin Ping used to watch online in the 1980s, the domestic electronics industry was very developed, but this kind of development was not in business, but it was just that it was strong in overall cutting-edge technology.
The level at that time was only 7 to 8 years weaker than the United States, and its overall strength was far superior to that of Neon Kingdom, Wanwan, and South Korea.
However, after a series of mysterious operations, South Korea has far left the domestic electronics industry with the strong support of the United States of 2 billion US dollars.
The reason why the United States spent a lot of money to support South Korea was because RB's semiconductor industry seriously threatened the US electronics industry in an all-round way.
In order to support an opponent and to crack down on Neon Country's industrial capabilities, we have to spend money to cultivate it.
However, what Lin Ping didn't know was that when domestic 4K DRAM was put into production, the United States directly transferred technology, directly allowing South Korea to start with 16K and overtake instantly. It even moved directly to the Wanwan 64K technology production line two years later.
"Is this guy..." Lin Ping was very happy at this time. He would not be dissatisfied with being underestimated. After all, he has no money now and there is no chance to build a personal computer. Even if he creates a computer with the same model as IBM, he can't find any sales. Game consoles can be sold all over the world. If it is a personal computer, it may be very difficult.
"Wang Shounian is now an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences." Professor Jinshan immediately introduced to Lin Ping.
"Academician? My damn!" Lin Ping swallowed his saliva. The academician actually came to his small electronic game club. It would be difficult to be underdeveloped!
"Hello Academician Wang, since you don't think it's difficult, can you work harder and work with everyone to come up with a prototype?" Lin Ping really wanted to ask, who else is an academician? However, if you can't say this in public, it will hit the teacher and professor. A word may offend some people. It seems that you can only study the list of these people in private.
"I will give you complete design drawings within a week, and I will take out a prototype for you within ten days." Wang Shounian thought for a little while and said straightforwardly.
After Wang Shounian finished speaking, there were no strange expressions on everyone's faces, as if everyone agreed with his words very much.
"Damn! Are all the professors in Tsinghua and Peking University so coquettish? No one jumped up to object? Why are everyone so calm and composed? If you get a bunch of bigwigs from the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wouldn't you take off on the spot?" Lin Ping felt the family background and strength of these two schools for the first time.
But if you think about it carefully, all of this has ready-made materials, just put these things together and debug them to perfection.
It seems that for experts with their knowledge, it is really not a difficult thing. After all, compared with Atari 2600, it is not to ask them to build high-rise buildings on the ground and start from scratch.
"Since that's the case, I will do my best to do my logistics! After this game console is developed, we will discuss arcades. Arcades may be more difficult. I ask for two Motorola 68000 chips to base them. The overall performance is far from comparable to Atari 2600." Lin Ping was very happy that everyone could quickly get the red and white machines, but the next goal was not that easy.
After Lin Ping finished speaking, someone soon found a magnifying glass and prepared to draw all the circuit diagrams of Atari first.
Then, based on this circuit diagram, you will improve your design bit by bit.
Chapter completed!