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Chapter 223 nimbus game console

Walker moved the mouse, and then his entire seat began to move, and the direction of the iron rod that served as the barrel in front of him also began to change.

He looked at the crosshair position on the screen and nodded.

"It's incredible, oh, this is definitely a masterpiece in the history of tanks."

The head of the Seat Quality Supervision and Management Office, Walker is very optimistic about Ark Company. Although their products seem to be unprecedented, they are indeed of great help to the war.

Although Walker uses mouse control, such a mouse is completely useless in war.

Catherine originally wanted to use a capacitive touch panel as a device, but unfortunately, there is no such device at all.

The reason why Pip-Boy 1016 has been able to develop so fast is inseparable from the fire control system and laser rangefinder provided by Hughes Company.

——Now, the two companies have begun to cooperate on this system.

Walker is currently sitting in a machine that technicians built to create a virtual tank for experiments.

In front of him was a CRT flat screen. On this screen, there was a red crosshair. As he moved the mouse, the picture began to change - this picture came from the camera on the barrel.

The center of aim is the position of the impact point. Based on the position measured by the laser rangefinder and the data of the artillery shell, the computer can perform inverse calculations based on these data, and then align the position of the muzzle with the impact point.

This is the legendary way to hit wherever you point.

After getting off the machine, Walker was in a good mood.

"By the way, if you use a mouse, although it is convenient, will it be too unsafe?"

Walker asked the technician.

"Yes, so when we officially use it, we will use a fixed handle operation method. The button on the right is to select the type of ammunition, and the button on the left is used to control the position of the crosshair."

The technician explained.

"In fact, we originally considered using a touchpad device, which is more accurate and has better effects, but unfortunately, this device is only in the conceptual stage and has not been put into practice."

In her previous life, Catherine was very accustomed to using the keyboard and touchpad that came with her laptop. Once you get used to it, this kind of touchpad is very convenient.

Therefore, Catherine's initial consideration for the crosshair system was to use a touchpad, but unfortunately, this touchpad idea was somewhat unrealistic.

"Really?" Walker nodded.

"Actually, our main problem now is loading ammunition. Although our computer can complete this task, most of the time, the space problem inside the tank itself is the most troublesome."

Walker nodded: "With automated control, the number of people on the bus can be reduced significantly, so there will be enough space."

The technician nodded.

"In fact, it would be great if there was a customized fully automated tank... If it were an unmanned tank that does not require our children to step into the battlefield... Sigh."

Walker shook his head. His words made Catherine, who had just come over, turn her whole face into the word "囧". Automatic tank? It's too far away.

"Unmanned tanks are still far away, but I think it is still possible if automation is implemented."

Catherine smiled and told the trend of future wars.

"Perhaps a fully automated tank would be better than our current modification method." The technician suddenly interjected.

Walker nodded, looking thoughtful.

After the other party left, Catherine was also thinking, would it be better to have a specially customized tank?

But compared to those arms dealers, Catherine's ark was completely unsatisfactory. Hughes Company chose to cooperate with Catherine's company because of its vital interests.

If you want to talk to those traditional arms dealers... you have to at least double your market value, right?

For now, the only way to go is to continue to develop stable systems that are suitable for military use.

The development of sfc has reached a critical stage. With an allocation of 100 million US dollars, the research has become much smoother. After sfc is released, the company is ready to start researching a stable 16-bit military-grade CPU.

For Catherine, the company's product sales are not a problem. With the new generation of TV sales model, Catherine's products have almost just been shipped to the United States from Taiwan and need to be shipped to all parts of the country immediately.

The company also signed a long-term contract with FedEx Corporation for this purpose.

The supply of goods is tight, so Taiwan is producing products at full capacity. Although it is low-cost and low-priced, and the company even works three shifts, it can only barely maintain it and cannot continue to expand production.

"How's the research going on with the automatic locking system?"

After Walker left, Catherine asked the researcher.

"Uh... In fact, I don't think our computer's performance can support such complex calculations at all..."

Indeed, it is really difficult to achieve automatic locking simply by analyzing images.

After all, until the 21st century, this automatic locking system still has many difficulties that have not been overcome.

"Then let's do this for now."

Catherine said and left.

Then, Catherine came to nimbus's research department.

The next generation of game consoles will become the touchstone for Catherine's GPU.

The predetermined specifications of the Nimbus game console are to use a maximum resolution of 560x420, and the memory and video memory are both 256kb.

The system is expected to support a maximum of 65536 colors, with a maximum of 256 colors on the same screen.

——Of course, this is without GPU support.

Catherine does not plan to install the GPU directly on the Nimbus game console. This will only extend the development cycle of the game console and increase the cost.

Catherine is considering using the GPU as an additional module to be released with some 3D games - or pseudo-3D games - in the future.

Therefore, the mobile phone must reserve a slot in the system, which is easy to handle.

Nimbus will support current Xbox cartridge games and tape games.

In the future, the GPU module only needs to be inserted into the slot of the game cartridge. In the "historical" SFC game console, due to insufficient performance, game developers chose to add a DSP chip to the cartridge to make up for it.

Games that require GPUs to improve performance will be sold on discs.

The CUDA patent will be applied for soon. In the future, games that require GPUs will also have the CUDA logo on their packaging.

The capacity of optical discs is not comparable to that of cassettes, which also gives you more space to design programs without being limited by capacity.

In addition, in Catherine's vision, the machine should also be able to support online battles. At the same time, this vision is also the most difficult to realize.

There is nothing more interesting in Catherine's vision than realizing online battles.

In "history", the reason why Microsoft's game consoles became successful was because they had the powerful tool of the Internet.

Historically, Sega's game console swansong DC was also popular because of the Internet. Unfortunately, Sega's shipments and production seriously failed to keep up, resulting in it not occupying the market at the best time. In addition,

Due to the impact of masterpieces such as "Final Fantasy", Sega's game console ended up being a tragedy.

Of course, Catherine will not make the same mistake again.

It's just that for now, the Internet penetration rate is really not high. Doing this yourself can even be said to be an increase in costs.

If it doesn't work, Catherine considers giving up network support in nimbus. At worst, the next generation of consoles will add this support... Best, it can be used in first-person shooting games such as FPS...

In addition, the Nimbus game console is also a game device that Catherine is preparing to enter the Japanese market.

IBM's march gave Catherine an inspiration.

The Japanese developed computers only after the 1980s. They came up with the weird PC-98 architecture.

Therefore, now that my company has entered the Japanese market, it may go smoothly.

But Catherine still felt a little worried.

Because of the prosperity of personal computers, history has changed drastically.

Just like the study of memory.

Because Catherine's Microsoft II computer opened up the hardware market, third parties began to become active. So far, they have a single memory of up to 128kb.

Catherine opened the door to the electronic world in advance. Although Moore's Law still exists in history, concepts that originally appeared in the 1970s have now begun to have products. Catherine believes that the future of this world must be more colorful.

However, competing manufacturers may appear earlier. Now they hold most of the patents. These patents, as well as their own ultra-low price measures, effectively prevent other manufacturers from competing with Catherine, so they can only serve as

exists as a third party.

Maybe Japanese manufacturers will develop their own game consoles in advance, and Catherine will suffer a big loss.

Having said that, it is not that simple for the Japanese to develop a finished product.

Although the personal computer market has developed to what it is today, Catherine has never written a paper about CPUs.

Although such a world may be technologically more powerful than the original history, in terms of technological level, the average level of the world may be even lower than before - and the initiator of this matter is named Catherine Eyre.

This big capitalist from Dessen.

But it's not absolute. As long as they are willing to spend money, they might be able to research it.

Rather than waiting for their research to appear before entering the U.S. market, it is better to preemptively occupy the Japanese market.

At this time, IBM was standing in front of us.

As the saying goes, if the former wave dies on the beach, with IBM to protect Ark, Catherine doesn't mind making more money.

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