On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:30:52 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:09:12 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>4 - Enabled the Missile to display something that, nearly but not
>> totally, looks different than a pistol (#1)
>>
>>#1 Uhm, I read the german translation of 'The Restaurant At The End Of
>>The Universe' and tried to re-translate that joke. If it shows no
>>similarity to the original words at all now, it's only 50% my fault.
>
>The wording was a bit different - the original was "a liquid that was
>almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea", but the joke was quite
>recognizable :)
Whoops, I did not mean to cc the list on that, so sorry to clutter up with
both that message and this one :)
Andrew Davie wrote:
>elegant). ESPECIALLY when using a dodgy random number routine which isn't
>really nearly random at all.
>Random
> ; Generate a pseudo-random number
>
> lda rnd
> lsr
> lsr
> sbc rnd
> lsr
> ror rnd+1
> ror rnd
> ror rnd
> rts
Anyways, to make this post have some useful content, yes, that is a
horrible random number generator :) If I read the source correctly, rnd+1
is a byte that holds a bunch of flags for the game state. Very not
random.
For a mathematically sound random number generator that fits well on the
2600 (although requiring 4 bytes of RAM), see my post from way back when
at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199703/msg00296.html . (I
tried finding my sources for that on the web with no success.)
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