Chapter 27 second quarter

Masaharu Nakamichi is affiliated to the Sixth Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, North Osaka University, and his graduation research topic is robot control using graph theory.Specifically, the computer is made to judge the three-dimensional shape of the object based on the visual recognition of a single direction. When he was sitting at his desk revising the program, graduate student Minobe called him, "Hey, Nakamichi, let's take a look at this." Minobe sat in front of the HP personal computer, staring at the screen. Standing behind the senior, Zheng Qing looked at the black and white screen, where there were three fine-grained squares and a pattern similar to a submarine.He recognized the image. It was a game they called "Submarine," about sinking enemy submarines as quickly as possible.It is the fun of this game to infer the enemy's position from several data displayed by three coordinates.Of course, if you only focus on attacking, your position will be detected by the enemy, causing torpedo counterattacks.

This game was made by the undergraduates and graduate students of the sixth research room in their spare time. The programming and input of the program were all carried out as a joint operation, which can be said to be their underground graduation research. "What's wrong?" Zheng Qing asked. "If you look closely, it's a little different from our 'Submarine'." "Hey!" "Like the way the coordinates are displayed, and the shape of the submarine is a little bit different." "Strange," Zheng Qing observed carefully, "Yes."

"Strange, isn't it?" "Yeah, someone changed the program?" "no." Minobe restarted the computer, pressed the tape recorder button beside him, and took out the tape.This tape recorder is not for listening to music, but an external storage device for a personal computer.Although IBM has published a storage method using disc disks, most of the external storage devices of personal computers still use cassettes. "I put this in, and it's just like it was just after it starts up." Minobe handed the cassette to Masaharu.The label on the cassette simply said "Marine Crash", in print, not handwritten.

"'Marine Crash'? What's this?" "Nagata from Sanken lent me." Minobe said.Sanyan is the abbreviation of the third laboratory. "How could he have such a thing?" "Because of this." Minobe took out the ticket holder from the pocket of his jeans, and pulled out a piece of folded paper, which seemed to be cut out from a magazine.He spread the paper out. All kinds of PC game mail order - line words come into view.There are also product names and a brief description of the game below, as well as a price list.There are about 30 kinds of products, the cheap ones are more than 1,000 yuan, and the expensive ones are about 5,000 yuan.

"Marine Crash" is in the middle of the form, with a bold font and "entertainment ★★★★".There are three other types marked in bold, but this is the only one marked with four stars, and you can tell that the seller strongly recommends it at a glance. The company engaged in sales is "Unlimited Projects", which Zhengqing has neither seen nor heard of. "What's this? Is there someone doing this mail order business?" "Sometimes I saw it recently, but I didn't pay attention to it, but Nagata from Sanken said he knew it a long time ago. Seeing that the game content of 'Marine Crash' is very similar to our 'Submarine', he felt strange. Later, he had A friend placed an order to buy something here, and he borrowed it to see it. The result was exactly the same as you saw. He was taken aback and came to tell me.”

"Hmm..." Zhengqing was confused, "What's going on here?" "'Submarine'," Minobe said, leaning back in the chair, the metal squeezed and rubbed and creaked, "it is our original work. That's right, to be more precise, we used MIT It is based on the games made by students, but it is developed by our own ideas. There is no doubt about it. An unrelated person thinks of the same idea in an unrelated place and makes it concretely. This kind of chance is almost non-existent, right?" "so……" "The only possibility is that someone among us leaked the program of 'Submarine' to this 'Infinity Project'."

"No way?" "Do you want to get other possibilities? Those who have 'Submarine' in hand are only members who participated in the production. If it is not a special case, they will not lend them casually." Masaharu had nothing to say about Minobe's doubts.Indeed, he really couldn't think of any other possibility.As it turns out, games resembling "Submarine" are being sold through the mail order channel. "Should we gather everyone?" Zheng Qing suggested. "It's necessary. It's going to be a lunch break soon, let's ask everyone to gather here after dinner. You may have a clue after asking everyone. Of course, the premise is that the person is not lying." Minobu twitched the corner of his mouth and pointed Push up the gold-rimmed glasses with the tip.

"It's really hard for me to imagine that someone would sell things to merchants behind everyone's back." "The middle way, you have to believe that everyone is your freedom, but it is an indisputable fact that someone betrayed us." "It's not necessarily deliberate, is it?" Hearing Zhengqing's words, Minobe raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean?" "It may also be that the program was stolen by someone else without my knowledge." "You mean, the suspect is not a member, but someone close to him?" "Yes." Although he was a bit repelled by the term "suspect", Zhengqing nodded.

"No matter what, it is necessary to ask everyone." Minobe folded his hands in front of his chest as he said. There are six people involved in the development of "Submrine", including Minobu, and everyone gathers in the sixth research room during lunch break.Minobe reported what had happened, but everyone insisted they knew nothing. "Let's not talk about anything else. If you do this kind of thing, you will definitely show your feet like this. Who would be so stupid as to not think of this." A fourth-grade student said to Minobu. Another person said: "Since we want to sell it, of course we will sell it ourselves after discussing with everyone. This way we will definitely make more money."

Has anyone ever lent a program to someone else?Minobe asked this question.Three students replied that they had lent their friends to play, but they were all in the presence of themselves, and everyone was sure that their friends did not have time to copy the program. "So, someone may have taken the program out without authorization." Minobe asked everyone to explain the whereabouts of the cassette that recorded the program.However, no one is missing. "Think again, everyone. Since it's not us, then someone around us sold 'Submarine' to others without permission, and the person who bought it with money is blatantly selling it." Minobu looked at everyone in turn unwillingly. .

After disbanding, Zhengqing returned to her seat and reconfirmed her memory.The final conclusion is that at least there is no possibility of my own cassette being stolen.Usually, he keeps other data cassettes and "Submarine" cassettes in a desk drawer at home.When I brought it out, I never left it with me for a moment, and never even left the cassette in the research room.In other words, there was absolutely no way things could be stolen from him. Even so, this incident made him feel completely different.It never occurred to him that their game could become a commodity. Perhaps, this would be a brand new business opportunity...