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- From: mpark@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Assembler routine that generates random numbers?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:02:57 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes:
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- >: I remember (it's a long time since I disassembled the code) that when the
- >: XBIOS routine is first called, the generator is seeded with a new number --
- >: but I forget where that number comes from.
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- >I'm quite sure they come from the 200HZ timer (from the system variable),
- >but I'm not 100% sure...
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- The initial seed comes from _frclock, according to the docs I have.
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