Author: Bai Lian Zi Ren

Cora accidentally saw a report in the newspaper yesterday, "The popular arcade games "Tank Battle" and "Great Wall Cube" computer versions will soon be launched in the beautiful country."

He learned from reports that computer copies of these two games can be purchased at Computer Park stores. So he drove for nearly half an hour today and finally found Ai Rui's store, ready to buy a copy of the games back.

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Seeing the business, Ai Rui put down the Great Wall Block Gameboy handheld console he was playing with without being satisfied, and replied with a smile: "Sir, yes. Copies of the computer versions of these two games are available in our Computer Park store!"

Cora excitedly waved her fist and decided to buy the game copies without even asking the price. She said ecstatically: "Good! Please give me a copy of both games!"

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Ari did not rush to get him a copy of the game, but asked, "Sorry! Sir, do you have an ABC computer at home?"

Cora was stunned for a moment and shook her head and said: "I already have an Apple computer, not an ABC computer from Aikon Company."

Ari answered patiently: "I'm sorry, sir! The two computer game copies of "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle" can only be run on the RoyalTek-Dos operating system of abc computer.

If you don’t buy abc computer, even if you buy a copy of the game back, you won’t be able to use it on your Apple computer!”

After hearing Ari's explanation, Cora said angrily: "Fuck! Whose idea was this? It's so disgusting!"

Ari pretended not to hear his curses. Almost every customer who came to buy a copy of the game couldn't help but curse a few times after knowing the result. He had become accustomed to it during this time.

Ai Rui promoted: "Sir, how about you buy a Gameboy handheld game console? There is also the game "Great Wall Cube" on it. I was playing it just now. Moreover, this handheld game console is very small and light, and can be put in your pocket.

Very convenient to carry around!”

Cora asked: "These two computer copies of the game can really only be run on abc computers?"

Ari nodded and said: "Sir, yes. These two computer versions of the game can only be run on abc computer's own RoyalTek-Dos operating system. RoyalTek-Dos is compatible with cp/m, but cp/m is not compatible.

RoyalTek-Dos, so the software on other cp/m systems can be used on abc computer, but the software on abc computer cannot run on other computers!"

Cora pointed to a black computer with tough lines and a very fashionable appearance, and asked: "Is this cool computer the abc computer from Acorn Company?"

Ari replied: "Sir, yes! This is the basic configuration type of Acorn computer abc-1!"

Cora thought for a moment and said, "Can you open it for me to try? If it's really good, I will buy another Acorn computer and give my original Apple computer to my brother Wynn."

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During this period, Ai Rui has met several customers who came to buy copies of the game. In the end, they bought an ABC computer to take home. Ai Rei can only describe them in one sentence: rich and willful!

But he just liked such willful customers, so Ari quickly started the ABC prototype on the counter and began to explain and demonstrate some basic operations to Cora.

Then I took a game floppy disk of "Tank Battle", put it into the floppy drive of the chassis, and opened it to enter the game program. The key-102 keyboard of the abc computer can be set to a two-player game mode. One person uses the direction keys and the other person uses "w"

The four keys ",s,a,d" are used to control the up, down, left and right directions.

These are the most common settings in later generations of computers, but they were a very good innovation in 1982. Because before the key-102 keyboard came out, most keyboards on the market didn't even have the concept of arrow keys.

The two happily collaborated on "Tank Battle". Playing the game together is a good way to communicate with each other. At the same time, Ai Rui took the opportunity to continuously educate customers on the various advantages of this ABC computer.

I don’t know when another pair of father and son customers came to the store. The son among them said eagerly: "Dad, this game is so interesting, I want to play it too!"

The father looked at his son's eager expression and asked Ari: "Can I let my son try it out?"

Ari smiled and nodded and said, "Sir, of course it's no problem!"

Ari said hello to Cora, moved the child to the computer, and began to teach the child how to operate the game.

Twenty minutes later, Ari happily sent away these two groups of customers. Two more ABC-1 computers were added to the store's sales list today.

During this time, the main product in his store was the ABC computer from Acorn. As for the original Apple computer, he had already moved it to an inconspicuous corner.

It is said that Acorn Computer Company and Computer Park Company have the same behind-the-scenes boss, but these have nothing to do with franchise stores like Ireli.

They only know that according to the company's policy, selling an ABC computer will make more profit than selling an Apple computer, so iResearch has been trying its best to sell Acorn's ABC computers to customers recently.

Since August, abc computers have quickly entered the counters of major computer sales companies in Beautiful Country and John Country. Along with the computers, a series of practical software has also been launched, such as computers for the previous arcade games "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle"

version of the game.

In fact, as early as after the Los Angeles Electronics Show, when the "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle" arcade machines became popular in the beautiful Chinese market, Dingtian Company received multiple offers from beautiful Chinese game companies to purchase the computer copyrights of the two games, but all of them were rejected by Bai Zi.

Rejected by Rui.

The legal department of Dingtian Company is also keeping a close eye on the beautiful Chinese computer game market. As soon as it discovers that other companies have infringed on the copycat behavior of "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle", it will immediately send a stern lawyer's letter to the other party.

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If the other party still refuses to restrain, they will go to court directly. For this reason, the legal department of Dingtian Company also took three small software companies in Meili China to court, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Relying on the huge popularity accumulated by the arcade versions of the two games, the computer game copies of "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle" instantly aroused the enthusiasm of players as soon as they were launched. After all, they go to grocery stores and small stores to play arcade games.

How can you be as comfortable and worry-free as playing on your own computer at home?

However, the two game copies of "Great Wall Cube" and "Tank Battle" can only be run on Acorn's abc computer, which makes countless players who are planning to purchase copies of the game extremely frustrated.

Dingtian Company will naturally launch game copies based on other operating systems in the future, but that will be a few months later. At least for now, the only way to play these two games on a personal computer for the first time is
Chapter completed!