Chapter 237: Maintenance of the arcade machine

1978-1990 can be said to be an era when arcade electronic games are blooming. Bai Zirui acquired arcade factories and entered the game industry with huge profits. He competed with major well-known game companies in the world.

In 1978, Taidong Co., Ltd. released an arcade game called "Space Invaders", which caused a huge sensation around the world.

"Space Invaders" is a shooting game. Players control planes to move left and right to fire bullets, destroying rows of alien monsters that slowly move downwards above the screen. The picture is simple and rough, and the three countries that were popular throughout China in more than ten years later

Compared with classic arcade games such as King of Fighters and Street Fighters, the difference is 108,000 miles away.

But it is such a game that seems extremely simple to the later gamers. In the 1970s and 1980s, it attracted the attention of countless young people from all over the world. From Europe to North America to Asia, the streets and alleys of grocery departments and convenience stores can always gather at the doors of convenience stores.

A bunch of people.

Some of the first batch of people who have vision and dare to take the lead were introduced from Japan at that time, and the first few game halls were available.

Compared with the American arcade market, which mainly comes from community convenience stores, grocery stores, gas stations, and cinemas, where crowded places are densely populated, Xiangjiang is concentrated in a special game hall.

The main reason for this is that the price of arcades is too expensive. It costs 2,400 US dollars to import a "Space Invader" game console from Namco, Japan, which is equivalent to more than 12,000 Hong Kong dollars. It is an ordinary toast store

The boss doesn't want to spend such a big price to introduce it.

On the contrary, a small number of bosses who are interested in taking risks bought more than 10 or 20 units at one go to open a special game room. Every day, customers are full and profitable.

Yang Dezhi is one of these people who are trying out the game. His children are studying in Canada. When he visited his children, he accidentally came into contact with arcade video games. He saw the development prospects of the game industry in a long-term way, so he returned to Xiangjiang to establish.

Yangji Electronics Factory is engaged in arcade assembly.

Bai Zirui first went to the arcade assembly workshop to check the production situation of the orders that had been received, and then went to the warehouse to check the inventory situation. Zhou Kunpeng, who was responsible for the maintenance of machinery and equipment, followed him to the warehouse.

Zhou Kunpeng told him along the way that the assembled arcade machines in the factory were pulled away by customers, and there were only machines that were returned for repair in the warehouse. They only repaired one. At their level, they could only repair some relatively simple line problems.

A machine with problems with a computer board can do nothing.

Bai Zirui walked into the warehouse. The warehouse area was about 180 square meters. There was a game console in the corner of the wall. Even the display screen on the frame was removed. Under the light was a large rectangular workbench with a messy surface.

There are some switches, hand handles, resistors and other components.

Next to the workbench was a game console with the lower cover removed. This one was probably the one that Zhou Kunpeng said they couldn't repair. Bai Zirui walked to the machine and pulled the motherboard out of the socket.

Then I found various instruments from the toolbox and started to test them slowly.

The biggest difference between arcade motherboards and ordinary computer motherboards is that they are neatly covered with chips. Except for a few of them, which are processor chips, which is what we call CPUs, most of them are Dram memory chips. The more exquisite the game, the more content it is.

The more memory chips are needed.

Bai Zirui looked at the chip labels. These memories are Intel's 8088 chips. Intel 8088 chips are an Intel microprocessor based on 8086, with a 16-bit temporary storage and an 8-bit external data bus. It contains 29,000 transistors.

, the clock frequency is 4.77MHz, the address bus is 20 bits, and 1MB of memory can be used. The internal data bus of 8088 are all 16 bits, the external data bus is 8 bits, and its brother 8086 is 16 bits.

This is the processor used on IBM PCs this year. IBM launched the 8088 processor PC computer that uses Intel to start the craze of the personal computer era. Intel seized this godsend opportunity and transformed into the CPU market after 1983.

, So there are a series of familiar CPUs such as 286, 386, Pentium, Cyron, Core, etc.

Bai Zirui quickly found out the problem of the damage to the game console. Two of the neat 8088 chips were probably burned due to insufficient heat dissipation. These memory chips contain game information.

If you can't use it together, it will affect the work of the entire game console.

In order to prevent game pirated, game companies have strict control over parts. If they are in a market with complete channels like Japan and the United States, these tasks will naturally be handled by agents. Arcades have just appeared in Xiangjiang for two years, and the game hall

Most of the bosses import directly from Japan, and they have to go to Japan for repairs. It is not only a hassle and a waste of time when they come and go.

Zhou Kunpeng watched Bai Zirui's every move, but unexpectedly, the new boss knew how to repair arcade game consoles. He asked curiously: "Bai Sheng, can you repair these game consoles?"

Bai Zirui smiled and said, "I understand a little."

He put down the instrument in his hand and picked up the workbench. The computer board he had removed from the game console before, and patiently said to Zhou Kunpeng: "Super Zhou, look at these rows of black small embedded in the computer board.

The blocks are all chips. These rows are all memory chips. The pictures and sound data of the game consoles outside are found in these chips.

This is a 8080 CPU produced by Intel, a company in the United States. The data in the memory chips need to be processed through it before they are output to the display screen to become the picture we see.

This little bit is a boss chip. You can understand it as a total controller. All other chips are run according to its commands. If you modify the data in this chip, you can change the game that originally had only three lives.

He has countless lives to play the level through!"

Zhou Kunpeng listened to the professional terms Bai Zirui said, and thought in his mind that the new boss was actually an expert in electronic technology. If Bai Zirui knew what he was thinking, he would definitely be ridiculous. These were just his previous life.

In an arcade, I just learned a little bit of what I learned from others.

What he said about Du Yunpo of Heshengtang is to crack the games that have been launched on the market. Making a stolen version is an illegal infringement, although the patent protection of Xiangjiang in the 1980s was not as strict as that of later generations.

Bai Zirui will not leave any stain on himself. This is his expedient approach to conquer Du Yunpo. He has countless classic games in his mind, so he must make original games that have not been released yet. Compared to the little market in Xiangjiang, Japan

And North America is the vast ocean he will soar in the future.

In Bai Zirui's magnificent plan, arcade games are just the beginning of their career. With the continuous development of computer technology, arcades have been replaced by computer games thirty years later, except for the Japanese market still surviving, the United States has long been replaced by computer games.

In his plan, he not only wants to be a burger tycoon, but also a computer tycoon and semiconductor tycoon. International giants such as Apple, ibm, and Intel are his future competitors.

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