Subject: [stella] entropy & randomness From: "B. Watson" <atari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:43:53 -0400 (EDT) |
I'm messing with the random number generator from Suicide Mission. Here it is for reference: RND LDA RNDL LSR LSR SBC RNDL LSR ROR RNDH ROR RNDL LDA RNDL RTS ...my question is, would it be more `random' to call this once every frame, or only when I actually need a random number (maybe less than once a frame, the program I'm messing with changes COLUBK every 32 frames) also... in an actual game, would it help randomize things to do something like INC RNDL every time the player presses the fire button, or would this actually make the sequence more predictable? I guess I should go & find some papers on chaos theory or something, but the math is beyond me. I never learned much about statistical analysis, but it'd be interesting to be able to test `how random' my random numbers are. Any pointers? B. --- If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation? - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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