Subject: Re: [stella] Minesweeper for 2600, please test From: Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eckhard Stolberg) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:48:23 +0200 |
>>You could start the game with a title screen, where people would have to press >>reset to start the first game. Count the frames untill reset is pressed. >>That way you would get an initial value for your random generator. > >In theory, this problem could be solved on a real VCS by reading a byte >from RAM _before_ initially clearing the memory, and using that as a seed. >This should work if the RAM is as random upon startup as the TIA's >registers. This might work with real cart games, but I think the Supercharger cleans out all RAM and stores the control byte at $80 after it has loaded a game. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg -- Archives updated once/day at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsubscribing and other info at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html
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