Chicago 1990

Latest URL: "Damn it!"

In San Jose, 3DFX didn’t know when the head office ban was upgraded. Song Ya and the gearing Tony, Silencer, and Mavota were blocked by white security guards with strange faces. “A bunch of liars!”

"How can I help you sir?"

The security guards turned sideways vigilantly and pressed their hands to their waists.

"Get off! I'm the one who pays you!"

Song Ya yelled at them.

"Sorry, you need to register in advance and apply for visitor certificates." said a security supervisor.

"Don't be impulsive, Tony."

Old Mike grabbed Tony's back collar, who was in a position to try to break through. "Don't you know him?" Pointing to Song Ya and asked him.

"Yes, but... sorry, we just acted according to the rules."

The security supervisor is also very embarrassed.

"Boss..." At this time, Dr. Mei came down to pick up the people. "Let’s register first. It will be done soon." He held some temporary visitor cards in his hand and called at the front desk to confirm and register one by one. Enter the elevator.

"Don't do it later, boss."

Jimmy saw some security guards panting and climbing the stairs to follow. "I've heard stories about some company managers deliberately setting up investors to jail."

"M-Fxxk..."

Song Ya pushed open the office door that blocked the three guys last time, "Where are you? Where did you hide!?"

"All in the conference room." Dr. May said: "In the meeting, there are others..."

"Why, you learned well? Are you prepared?"

The office area of ​​3DFX is not large. Song Ya hurriedly walked to the meeting room. "You three..." opened the door. It was filled with white technical houses in plaid shirts. They all turned to look at him, making him a little blind. .

"It just so happens that our investor Mr. APLUS also came today.Do you all know each other?"

Rose Smith, one of the trio of liars, who is also the current company’s spokesperson, hurriedly greeted Song Ya with both hands together to make a begging gesture, and kept winking, "May I introduce you?"

"You wait outside first."

Song Ya decided not to embarrass them in front of so many people for the time being, and turned around and ordered Tony and others.

"This is John Carmack, the founder of ID Software, the creator of the 3D shooting game DOOM (Doom), and these 3D game project team developers from EA and Eidos, as well as these from Interactive Light, they are also developing new 3D shooting games on the arcade platform."

Rose Smith enthusiastically introduced Song Ya one by one, "We are already working together."

"Hello……"

Song Ya had to hold back his breath and shook hands one by one with the technical nerds who stared curiously at him, "John, I have heard of you, Mark Anderson said you are a genius programmer."

The only thing he knew was John Carmack, a white man who looked like a high school student. He seemed to be selected by a magazine as one of the most influential programmers in the world. How old is he now?His most famous deed was that when he was fourteen years old, he made a self-made thermite that melted a window in the school, in order to steal a new Apple computer with his accomplices, and was quickly arrested and sentenced to one year in prison.

"I know him, he is very strong, but I don't like him very much..." John Carmack spoke very straightforwardly.

"Why?" Song Ya asked.

"Long live open source!" a programmer shouted behind.

"Oh, I understand." Song Ya remembered that this guy was a firm supporter of software open source, and he just released the source code of his 3D engine not long ago.

So it's not surprising that he can agree with the three scammers of 3DFX, because 3DFX also donated its Glide API for free for game developers to use for free.

Hehe, it's all Lao Tzu's money...

"If you don't talk about code or something, I don't know much." After fainting at Netscape headquarters, he now declines all code-related topics.

"Our cooperation with John and everyone is great. In this way, when the 3DFX graphics accelerator card is released, a large number of high-quality 3D games will be launched simultaneously..."

Ross Smith introduced to the investors who paid the money, "You can take a look at the demo effect APLUS first."

Since the hardware chips have not yet been manufactured, the three crooks are still the old tricks, running the software on an SGI graphics workstation in the conference room.

The huge SGI trademark on the workstation host fell in Song Ya's eyes, and immediately evoked his unpleasant memories of being deceived, which was very eye-catching.

"Or do you try it out?"

One of the trio noticed the focus of his eyes and quickly pushed the keyboard and mouse over to divert his attention.

"I don't play much..."

"It's very simple. Use the mouse with your right hand and place your left hand on the up, down, left, and right buttons."

Song Ya saw the character holding a gun from the first view on the monitor on the conference table. Under the guidance of the other party, he held the mouse with his right hand and held down the four keys with his left finger.

The screen began to move under his control, and a polygon mob rushed over. He subconsciously moved the mouse to adjust the alignment, and then pressed the left button of the mouse.

"Wow, good APLUS, you must have played DOOM before." Rose Smith laughed.

"No, I prefer to play with civilization... This... it's a bit awkward to move..."

Song Ya concentrated on the operation, almost unable to speak, because the up, down, left, and right buttons on the keyboard were too close to the mouse, so the left and right hands would come together, and it would be uncomfortable to change the posture.

"The keys can be set by yourself, you can use whatever you like." John Carmack helped call up the settings menu.

After being dumbfounded for two seconds on the keyboard, he naturally replaced the up, down, left, and right keys with WASD, "This is much better." He started playing again.

This should be a demo. The scene is very small. After brushing a dozen monsters, he quickly got bored. He threw away the keyboard and mouse and said, "It feels pretty good..."

It's really not bad. After changing the keyboard settings, he still has an inexplicable sense of familiarity. His eyes softened when he looked at the people in the conference room. He was too familiar with this kind of "familiarity". After summarizing, he knew that this generally means crossing. The other one in front of me has related impressions and is still very impressive.

For example, the involuntary laughter when I first met Mariah Carey, such as hearing the name of the JavaScript programming language, etc...

"When the ES version (engineering sample version) of our 3D acceleration chip is produced, there is no need to demonstrate it on this host."

The liar's ability to observe words and colors is strong. Rose Smith looked at the hip-hop star in front of him and was no longer so angry. He immediately led the topic towards asking for money, "Just use an ordinary home computer host."

"So when will this ES version be produced?" Song Ya asked.

"October, October is fine."

Ross Smith replied: "But now the company funds...APLUS, come to my office and talk."

Song Ya sighed, got up and went out together, "Tony, forget it, you come downstairs and wait for me."

Sitting down in the other party's office, "what do other investors say?" He asked Dr. Mei, the supervisor who was stationed here.

"Everyone is not willing to conduct the second round of financing." Dr. May replied.

I'm afraid of being deceived...

"Then openly recruit A-round venture investors."

Song Ya rubbed his eyebrows and replied helplessly.

"In time..." Rose Smith seemed to be about to stare at a person.

"You set a timetable. If there is still a gap in venture capital before the last minute... I will see the situation again."

Song Ya stood up, grabbed the other's collar directly, and lifted the technical house away from the ground. Both of them looked straight, "If you lie to me again and again, what will I do? You know. Yes." He showed a fierce look and threatened severely.

"I understand, I understand, please rest assured Mr. APLUS."

"Ok."

Song Ya put him down with satisfaction, "Jimmy, Mike, let's go."

As soon as he came downstairs to meet Tony and others, the phone in Old Mike's arms rang, but Linda didn't follow him, "It's a fixed line, from New York." Old Mike said while looking at the strange caller number.

"Who is looking for me?"

Song Ya connected.

"APLUS, are you not in New York?" It was the voice of Doug, the chief of staff of the Underwood Party Whip Office.

"No, I'm here in San Jose." Song Ya replied.

"Is it convenient to meet in New York? I want to talk to you about this." Doug said.

"what's up?"

"It has something to do with a certain African-American congressman." Doug replied.

Then only Wrangel, Song Ya immediately realized that Underwood's fox wanted to intervene in his own business, "Fxxkyou, Doug, why do you show up whenever I make a big move? But this time you are late. I have decided not to inject capital into the Inner City Broadcasting Company, so there is no need to see this side, that's it."

"APLUS, we are resisting the Elephant Party’s boycott of next year’s federal budget in Congress, and the telecommunications bill also needs to be passed by the House of Representatives. We cannot lack the support of the African-American caucus at this time." Doug was afraid that he would hang up, saying a little more. .

"What does it have to do with me?"

"Come on, come to New York, let's talk first, we can always talk about a plan that everyone can accept, right?" Doug said.