Re: A86: Random
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Re: A86: Random
You can use his routine to pull bytes from the ROM. Even if the bytes are
next to each other, most likely they will be very different.
>
> yeah i had the same problem with it
> what are good for this type of thing?
>
> --- Andreas Finne <a_finne@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jimmy's random routine is very fast, and is great if
> > you just want a single
> > random number every now and then. But if you for
> > instance want to have
> > random coordinates chosen one after the other, it is
> > not as good. I have
> > made a program to try out different random routines
> > by taking random
> > coordinates and put out a sprite at the chosen
> > location. With this routine
> > the results were something like this:
> >
> > 00 0
> > 0 00
> > 0 00
> > 0 0 0
> >
> > All sprites were in an area from the upper left to
> > the lower right. You will
> > get a little better results if you put a 'halt'
> > between every call to the
> > random routine.
> >
> > Andreas Finne
> > a_finne@hotmail.com
> > a_finne@iobox.fi
> >
> >
> > >From: Matt C <snoborder420@yahoo.com>
> > >here is Jimmy Mardell's random routine from
> > Tetris,i
> > >think
> > >i use it alot
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