Chapter 140 - New Computers
Early in the morning, Chiba dragged a small flatbed cart and a large box to the door of Dr. Asasa's house and knocked on the door.
"Thousand feathers!" In less than three seconds, the magnetic access curfew of the gate was lifted, and the eyes of Motota, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi were extremely excited. "Did you bring anything?"
"Brought~" Chiba smiled and carried the box that looked very large, but not too heavy, into the house, while the others cheered and pulled the flatbed into the house as well.
In the room, Conan and Dr. Asa were laying a large carpet on the floor, motioning to Chiba, who had just taken off her shoes, to move the box.
Qian Yu came to the altar of earth and opened the box, revealing the contents of it.
A cube computer monitor, a cassette reader, and a keyboard, connected by a data cable.
"Commodore64~~~" ^_^ Chiba smiled and took out the parts of the computer and assembled them. "Doctor, bring the multi-directional line and the magnification device. Gray Plains, what about game tapes? ”
Gray Yuan inserted a cassette tape that was clearly not a regular game cartridge into the reader, and the reader immediately spun around and began to read the contents of the tape.
In this tape is a reproduction of the original cassette after Dr. Asasa rewrote it, and the name of the genuine cassette is SQIJ.
SQIJ is an RPG where players take on the role of a bird and explore caves while dodging and killing monsters that appear at any time and finding the pieces that will immortalize it.
Although this game is a game from seven years ago (1987), it is probably because the program code itself is more practical, and the frame rate, operation feel and music are also excellent in the case of excellent graphics and rich game content.
Of course, when Dr. Asasa rewrote the code, he also modified the game itself.
For example, each player-controlled bird will disappear when it touches the checkline that leads to the next map; In order to accommodate the six times the firepower of the six birds, the number of spawn monsters has also been tripled; In order to make it easier for everyone to distinguish where their birds are and to avoid overlapping of their birds, the size of the birds has been reduced to a quarter of its size.
However, the display screen of the commodore64 computer itself is actually not large, not even the size of an A4 paper, and it is impossible for six people to play normally through such a small screen together, so Chiba asked Dr. Asa to prepare a magnification device.
Plug the multi-directional cable into the output port of the commodore64 for easy access to six birdies with six handles. The combined lenses are then used to magnify and project the image on the monitor on a large screen.
"Then again," Mitsuhiko sat down as he leaned over a handle. "Is it more or less difficult to set up like this?"
"As you know, each bird only has 5 lives, so if you hit it in the late game, only some of the birds will be able to continue to beat the level." Chiba sat down in the same way as a duck and picked up another handle. "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 only the last bird remains, there will still be three times as many enemies as it will spawn. ”
"Is it that tall?" Yuan Tai wailed. "The single-player version is already a very difficult game, and if there are twice as many enemies, it will be impossible to fight well!"
"Enemies will only spawn out of holes at the edge of those maps, and they will only attack half a second after they have been spawned," Chiwa said. "As long as you concentrate on the next map's decision line, it's almost impossible to hit."
"You're the only one who can beat the single-player version more comfortably, right?" Conan squinted. "Hmm, if you have the ability to clear customs, Gray Yuan-san is also one."
When Gray Plains played the game before, it all depended on the state of whether he passed the level, and it often happened that he lost all his lives before clearing the level. Of course, it's still better than Mitsuhiko and the others who rely on the explosion of character to clear the customs.
A certain Conan, who has no record of customs clearance at all, scratches the wall speechlessly.
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"I'm really curious now how the spectrum platform's SQIJ could have been done like that." Gray Yuan mourned that he had lost his life and could only wait until the next map was resurrected, and he complained while watching the birds of a thousand feathers rush to the end.
"That..." After hearing Gray Yuan's words, Qianyu's hand trembled, causing the bird to be almost hit by a large number of cannonballs, and he hurriedly dodged the barrage bombardment. "That platform's SQIJ is poisonous!"
SQIJ is actually a very extreme game, because although the gameplay of SQIJ on commodore64 is very high, the porting of SQIJ to the spectrum platform is simply miserable.
Imagine a big white bird standing in the center of the screen in the style of a pixel game like the 70s, and two monsters with the same rough graphics are jumping pixel by pixel block on the big white bird. The image quality is so rough that it seems to be only 40*30 pixels, the frame rate is very low, and it takes about a second (that is, one frame per second) for the picture to refresh once, and the sound effect is simply not there!
Of course, all of these flaws are theoretically remedy, because the real fatal flaws are much more than that.
If you try to play this game on the Spectrum platform, you will find the most fatal flaw of the whole game.
If you try to press the four WASD keys that control the operation of the Great White Bird, you will find that no matter how you operate, the bird will not make the corresponding action at all! This game is simply a run-down scrap! As a result, the game also successfully defeated Atari's "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" (this game has a very low quality game and boring content due to short development time, few personnel, and high development difficulty due to non-professional factors such as schedules). In the end, Atari's home video game belt market was hit in the face. ) is now considered to be the worst game of all time in the gaming market - only in the Spectrum version, of course.
"Words," Motota, who had already been out of the game because the bird had died five times, suddenly remembered something. "Why did you bring your computer here today? Didn't I remember you always asking to play this computer at your house before? ”
"I've changed computers," Chiba shrugged. "So this computer was moved."
"Qianyu, you are so happy," Mitsuhiko said enviously. "If you want to buy a computer, you can buy a computer. My parents are very strict! ”
“。。。” Qian Yu shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.
The computer I bought by myself is not something you can buy if you want to, because this is a handmade computer that Qianyu has ordered heavily on the dark web, and all the performance represents the top level of personal computers.
Although the imaging performance of the LCD screen itself is limited, and it is still in the era of six-digit pixels, Chiba scales the pixels of multiple screens to a normal-sized screen by specular reflection and lens scaling, so as to obtain more than 1 million pixels. As for the chassis under the desk, it was scaled up to the limit of what his room could fit in order to improve performance.
However, the guy who took over his own hand-made computer task seems to have similar tastes to himself, and the computer is quite easy to use...