Chapter 140 - The New Computer
In the early morning, Qianyu dragged a small flatbed truck and a large box to the door of Dr. Ali's house and knocked on the door.
"Qian Yu!" Within three seconds, the magnetic access control of the door was lifted. Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi's eyes were all extremely excited. "Did you bring the things?"
"Bring it~" Qianyu smiled and carried the box that looked big but was actually not too heavy into the house, while others cheered and pulled the flatbed truck into the house.
In the room, Conan and Dr. Ali were spreading a large carpet on the floor, and motioned to Qianyu, who had just taken off his shoes, to move the box over.
Qianyu came to the altar of earth, opened the box, and revealed the contents.
A cubic computer display, a tape reader and a keyboard, connected by data cables.
modore64~~~^_^" Qianyu smiled and took out the parts of the computer and assembled them. "Doctor, bring the multi-directional cable and the amplification device. Haiyuan, where are the game tapes?"
Haibara Ai inserted a tape that was obviously not a regular game cartridge into the reader. The reader immediately started spinning and began to read the contents on the tape.
This tape is a product reproduced by Dr. Ali after rewriting the original cassette, and the name of the original cassette is - sqij.
sqij is a role-playing game. The player needs to play a little bird and explore in the cave. At the same time, he must avoid and kill the attacks of monsters that appear at any time, and find the fragments that can make him immortal.
Although this game was made seven years ago (1987), it is probably because the program code itself is more practical. With excellent picture quality and rich game content, the frame rate, operating feel and music are also considered.
The best is the best.
Of course, when Dr. Ali rewrote the code, the game itself was also modified.
For example, each player-controlled bird will disappear when it touches the judgment line for entering the next map; in order to adapt to the six times the firepower of six birds, the number of refreshed monsters has also been tripled; for convenience
Everyone can distinguish where their own birds are to avoid overlapping of their own birds, and the size of the birds is reduced to a quarter of the size.
However, the display screen of the modore64 computer itself is actually not large, not even the size of an A4 piece of paper. It is impossible for six people to play games normally on such a small screen together, so Qianyu asked Dr. Ali to prepare a magnifying device.
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Plug the multi-directional cable into the output port of mode64 to facilitate the operation of six birds through the six handles. Then the image on the display is enlarged through the combined lens and projected on the large screen.
"Speaking of which," Mitsuhiko sat down next to a handle. "Does it become more difficult or less difficult after setting it up like this?"
"As you know, each bird only has 5 lives, so in the later stages, only some of the birds may be able to continue to pass the level." Qianyu sat down like a duck and picked up another controller. "
In my personal opinion, the difficulty in the early stage should be similar to the normal single-player version, but the difficulty in the later stage will be several times higher. After all, even if there is only the last bird left, there will still be three times as many enemies spawned.
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"Is it that high?" Yuantai wailed. "The single-player version is already a very difficult game. If there are twice as many enemies, it will be impossible to fight well!"
"Enemies will only spawn out of the holes on the edge of the map, and they will only attack half a second after they spawn out," Qianyu said leisurely. "As long as you concentrate on rushing to the judgment line of the next map, you will basically not
Might have been hit."
"You are the only one who can pass the single-player version more comfortably, right?" Conan squinted. "Well, if we say you have the ability to pass the level, Haibara-san can be counted as one."
When Haibara Ai played the game in the past, whether he could pass the level depended entirely on his state, and he would often lose all his life before the level was cleared. Of course, it was still better than Mitsuhiko and others who relied on their character explosion to clear the level.
A certain Conan, who had no clear record at all, scratched the wall speechlessly.
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"I'm really curious now how SQij on the Spectrum platform can be made like that." Haiyuan Ai lost her life and could only wait until the next map was resurrected while watching Qian Yu's bird rush.
Heading towards the finish line, he complained.
"That ghost..." Qianyu's hand trembled after hearing what Haiyuan Ai said, causing the bird to be almost hit by a large number of shells, and he hurriedly avoided the barrage bombardment. "The sqij on that platform is poisonous!"
Sqij is actually a game with very extreme reviews, because although the gameplay of sqij on the modor64 platform is very high, the sqij transplanted to the spectrum platform is simply miserable.
Imagine that a pale white bird with the style of a pixel game from the 1970s stands in the center of the screen, and two monsters with the same rough quality are jumping pixel by pixel next to the white bird. Image quality
It's so rough that it only has 4o*3o pixels, the frame rate is very low, it takes about a second to refresh the screen (that is, one frame per second), and the sound effects are completely non-existent!
Of course, all these flaws can be made up for in theory, because the real fatal flaws are far more than that.
If you try to play this game on the Spectrum platform, you will discover the most fatal flaw of the entire game.
If you try to press the four ASD keys that control the operation of the big white bird, you will find that no matter how you operate it, the bird will not make corresponding actions at all! This game is simply a waste that cannot be run! Therefore, this game
It also successfully defeated Atari's "ET Alien" (this game had a short development time, few people, and high difficulty due to non-professional factors such as schedule, resulting in very low game quality and very boring content. In the end
Atari's home video game tape market was hit hard.) It has become recognized by the game market as the worst game in history - of course, only in the spectrum version.
"By the way," Yuantai, who had already been eliminated because the bird died five times, suddenly remembered something. "Why did you move the computer over today? I remember that you had always asked to play on this computer at your house before?"
"I changed my computer," Qianyu shrugged. "So this computer was moved here."
"Qianyu, you are so lucky," Mitsuhiko said enviously. "You can buy a computer if you want. My parents are very strict!"
"..." Qianyu shrugged and said nothing.
The computer I bought was not something I could just buy if I wanted to, because it was a handmade computer that Qianyu ordered heavily on the dark web. Its performance represents the top level of personal computers.
Although the display performance of the LCD screen itself is limited and is still in the era of six-digit pixels, Qianyu uses mirror reflection and lens scaling to scale the pixels of multiple screens onto a normal-sized screen to obtain
It has over 1 million pixels. As for the chassis under the desk, it was enlarged to the maximum size that his room could accommodate in order to improve performance.
Chapter completed!