Subject: [stella] Generating Random Numbers From: danboris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan Boris) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:57:54 -0400 |
When I was at Electronicon I talked to Howard Warshaw (Yars Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc). He said the the way he would generate random number was a pseudo-random number, but he had a neat trick for constantly re-seading it. He would use some sort of counter the measure the time between moves of the joystickand use this to re-sead the random number gernerator, the user being the only truely random thing in the system. Dan Boris -- 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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