Chapter 162 Meetings

The "Calculator Upgrade" project of the SAM group, after Lin Hong's publicity at the dance, gained a lot of popularity. Because of its interest and practicality, it soon spread in Latin schools. Because the cracking method is very simple, and they do not limit the cracking program to their own hands. Anyone who asks for it can send it to the other party, and then ask the other party to help crack other people's calculators. Later, even in the name of the SAM team, they will also crack the program and two in the major technical BBS. A game program has been released. Of course, it naturally includes "Tulip" BBS.

The trend of calculator cracking quickly spread to other universities in the United States with the Internet, including universities in addition to middle schools.

There is a trend of calculators on campus, because the cracked calculators can indeed complete a lot of functions. Within the range allowed by hardware resources, some special mathematical and graphic functions have been added by Texas instrument engineers, such as function values, maximum values, Minimum values, integral and derivative calculations, as well as matrix operations, row transformation operations, conversion between matrices and arrays, etc.

Of course, everyone's favorite games are naturally indispensable, but due to the limitation of storage space, when porting the game, you have to reprogram it completely according to the original version, abstract complex graphics into various simple black and white patterns, and the characters in the game are often abstracted into a fire. Chai Man, all famous TV and arcade games soon began to appear on the calculator, Super Mario, Street Fighter, Thunder...

After the Homecoming Festival, the "SAM Group" was officially upgraded to a student club and began to accept other students to join. And the name has also been officially designated as the "SAM Technology Frontier Association". The content of the temporary research is to crack, expand and develop around calculators.

However, if you want to join the SAM Association, not anyone can do it. It must promote the project of the SAM Association. In the past few days, only one student has been successfully absorbed. He is Pearson, the author of the calculator version of Super Mario. He is a mixed-race of black descent and usually gives the impression of a nerd at school. No one is willing to associate with him without saying a word.

After the establishment of the SAM Association, he was the first to respond and wrote the first runable version of Super Mario in one day. Subsequently, with his continuous improvement and optimization, the game became more and more perfect. It soon surpassed the "ping-pong" and "Tetris" previously released by the SAM Association to become the favorite games on the calculator platform.

Of course, at present, Pison's game is only a stand-alone version and cannot be connected to other calculators. He is studying the infrared communication protocol invented by Lin Hong, thinking about how to add the connection function to his Mario, which will undoubtedly increase the fun of this game.

Today, after school. The four-person group of the SAM Association came to the headquarters of their association, that is, a small room next to the school computer room. Start discussing the next development plan.

This headquarters stronghold was specially applied to the school after the official establishment of the association. Because there were still relatively few members, it finally only applied for an empty room with an area of only about 40 square meters. Fortunately, the location is good. It is located near the school's computer room, and the gate of the headquarters is just opposite a small huā garden . They are still quite satisfied.

At present, there is only one conference table and a few stools in the headquarters. The oval conference table is still empty, and there is only a stack of association membership application forms.

The president of the SAM Association is Matthew, because both Lin Hong and Arthur think his personality is more suitable to be the president. Both of them are vice presidents, specializing in technology. Pison is the officer in it. Of course, Matthew has long promised that this is only temporary. After all the infrastructure of the association is improved, he will continue to attract members. At that time, Pison is also the elder of the association, and his status will naturally not be low.

Pison has no problem with this. He is already very happy to join the SAM Association. You know, he usually has a miserable time in school, not even a friend, and now the SAM Association has given himself a platform so that his technology can be recognized by everyone, which was done before. Something you can't even dream of. As long as he thinks that the game he wrote is installed in the calculators of almost all students in the school, he is very proud and happy. Moreover, as the first member of the SAM Association, his popularity index in the school immediately soared. At this moment, he was completely out of the realm of marginal students and gradually began to be accepted by everyone.

Everyone sit down. President Matthew began today's speech. He cleared his throat and said solemnly, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first formal meeting since the establishment of our association. There will be an important plan to be announced today..."

"Well, Matthew, can you stop talking with this kind of emphasis?"

Arthur couldn't help interrupting.

Lin Hong also laughed: "I agree with Arthur's opinion. Matthew, it's too awkward for us to talk like this. Let's be casual."

"Hey hey!" Matthew also smiled and said shyly, "This is not the first meeting. I wonder if it should be more formal."

Matthew is as good as the flow. Since everyone is not used to being so rigid, he is also happy.

"In the past few days, our upgrade plan has progressed very smoothly, and almost all students have upgraded their calculators in a short period of time."

Considering that cracking this statement is a little unpleasant, it is likely to be troubled by Texas Instruments, so the official statement is to upgrade the calculator, liberate the functions inherent in the original calculator, and maximize the function of the calculator.

"In addition, with the help of BBS, this upgrade plan has also quickly become popular in other schools. This is mainly due to STONE, which allows the cracking program to be transmitted directly to the calculator wirelessly without even connecting to the computer..."

"Up to now, there are a total of eight runable games on our platform, and there are some practical gadgets, and these things are still increasing rapidly."

"Today, we are going to discuss the next development plan of our association and set a general goal, so that we will not be confused in the future."

Since everyone believes that he chose him as the president, Matthew feels that he has to take on this responsibility, so these days, he has bothered a lot for the affairs of the community.

He himself knows that his role in this project is actually not as important as that of STONE and Arthur, so he is more careful about this matter. In the future, more members will be added to the association. If he doesn't work hard, he may be eliminated.

Matthew continued: "Let me talk about one question first, that is the hardware platform. At present, our cracking program is only concentrated on the TI-82 calculator platform. Texas Instruments has other models of calculators. In addition to hardware limitations, there are still several models that can be considered to crack together, such as TI-82e, TI-81 series, etc. In addition, calculators of other brands can also be considered for inclusion in the scope of cracking.

Lin Hong nodded. Now that TI-82 has been cracked, the cracking of other calculators of Texas Instruments is similar. Many codes and principles can be reused, but minor modifications are needed. As for other brands, it depends on the specific situation. Among several members of the SAM Association, he is the only one who knows more about hardware, so this is basically his job.

"The second point is how to make our association grow up quickly, form influence in schools, and make everyone proud of joining our association." Matthew put forward another topic: "Although we have also applied for a lot of membership applications, I know that many of them are impulsive. They just think this project is cool, so they want to join. Of course, STONE may account for a large part of the reason."

It is the usual practice of teachers to ask a problem in this way and then discuss the way to find a solution in class. Now it is learned by him to be used in the discussion within the association, which is also decent.

Arthur: "Yes. I took a look at these membership applications, and many people don't even have the most basic technical knowledge.

The three of them have been angry before. They want to build the "SAM Technology Frontier Association" into a more influential association. Naturally, they can't let anyone join. Moreover, among the three of them, only Matthew is more suitable for management. Arthur and Lin Hong are afraid of trouble, so they are strictly controlled. Member.

The overall purpose is to only absorb people who have made great contributions to the association and implement the elite membership policy. Whether the other party is popular in school or not, as long as you can promote the development of the association, you will have the opportunity.

And there is another advantage of fewer people, that is, the relationship between members will be better, and it will not be used for hundreds of members like those already flooded associations. Usually, even the members of the community do not know each other.

"I think that as long as we can bring benefits to everyone and write more software and games on the calculator, the influence in school should gradually increase." Pison thought for a moment and put forward his own opinion.

"Pison makes sense." Lin Hong nodded and then said some of his thoughts these days, "But after all, our own strength is limited, it is still a little too thin, and we still have our own studies to complete, and it is impossible to spend all our time on it. I think we rely on the power of the Internet.

"With the power of the network?"

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up after hearing Lin Hong's words.