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  • New CPU and Spectranet oddity.I have no reason to suspect this problem is due to a fault/poor design of the Spectranet, but understanding what it does at system initialisation may…

    ... is used to initialise the random number seed but this is read ...
    Winston Winston January 2014 Hardware
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... rule for selecting any random integer from a range ... value, n is the number of values and s+n ... />
    For selecting a random number from a non-sequential range ... lowest value, n the number of values and g the ... ) and read the Random section for more examples.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... Spectrum rule for selecting any random integer from a range is ... .

    For selecting a random number from a non-sequential range ... the lowest value, n the number of values and g the ... an extract) and read the Random section for more examples.[/QUOTE ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Deterministic random number generatorI'm looking for a random number generator in assembly which, given a seed, the generated sequence is always the same. You change the seed, you get a …

    FYI: Patrik's RNG is also available [URL="http://chuntey.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/random-number-generators/"]here[/URL].
    Arjun Arjun February 2014 Development
  • Deterministic random number generatorI'm looking for a random number generator in assembly which, given a seed, the generated sequence is always the same. You change the seed, you get a …

    Patrik Rak's XOR random number generator works a treat and it's incredibly compact. Exactly what I needed, thanks :)
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2014 Development
  • Deterministic random number generatorI'm looking for a random number generator in assembly which, given a seed, the generated sequence is always the same. You change the seed, you get a …

    ... together a 15-bit random number generator (as required ... ;
    ; Generates a random number in the range 0 .. RAND_MAX ... = 32767
    ;
    ; This random number generator is a 32-bit ... /> ;
    ; exit : hl = random number in [0, 32767]
    ;
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2014 Development
  • Deterministic random number generatorI'm looking for a random number generator in assembly which, given a seed, the generated sequence is always the same. You change the seed, you get a …

    [QUOTE=na_th_an;751611]Patrik Rak's XOR random number generator works a threat and it's incredibly compact. Exactly what I needed, thanks :)[/QUOTE]

    Totally agree, Patrick's XOR RNG is the dogs b*******...

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2014 Development
  • Deterministic random number generatorI'm looking for a random number generator in assembly which, given a seed, the generated sequence is always the same. You change the seed, you get a …

    ... ;751610]Patrik Rak's XOR random number generator works a treat and ...
    Gedlion Gedlion February 2014 Development
  • R.I.P. Bob Hoskins:( [url]http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/30/bob-hoskins-dies[/url] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27224995[/url]

    ... !"

    He dials a random number and gets some half-asleep ...
    Grunaki Grunaki May 2014 Chit chat
  • Sorting BusinessThis is a little bit different from the usual game-related fare but I know there are a few people here who like this sort of thing. This is about so…

    ... , having graded the same number of assignments as took me ... the same seed so the random number sequences are always the same ... shellsort resides uses a different random number generator so the shellsort result ... better pivot will mean the number of items in the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2014 Development
  • Sorting BusinessThis is a little bit different from the usual game-related fare but I know there are a few people here who like this sort of thing. This is about so…

    [QUOTE=Einar Saukas;768335]Use the middle element of the partition as pivot. This should be good enough in all practical cases.

    There are even better, more sophisticated strategies for choosing a pivot, but they have an additional overhead ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2014 Development
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... /forums/showthread.php?p=651670"]Random number generator[/URL]
    [URL="http ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak May 2014 Development
  • + 3 floppy drive clicking then nowtJust picked up a split mint +3 so i expected it to work perfectly but when i switch it on or reset it the floppy clicks about 10/12 times and then no…

    The answer is yes. I'm just not sure if the question is: "is 42 a nice random number"? :D:p:lol:

    [B][I]Mark[/I][/B]

    Posted on my earth computer
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2014 Hardware
  • Deterministic random number generatorI'm looking for a random number generator in assembly which, given a seed, the generated sequence is always the same. You change the seed, you get a …

    I use Patrik's XOR random number generator and think it is excellent.

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2014 Development
  • CMWC random number generator for Z80Seeing the interest regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23070"]Xor-Shift random number generator for Z80[/URL]…

    ... a raw 8 bits of random number.
    UpdatSeed() uses the ... frames variable to change the random seed number. (Time() sets DEHL = ... of needing to redo the random number, so multiple cycles rapidly ... not easy to get a random number between arbitrary values from ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2014 Development
  • Spectrum sometimes boots with graphic issuesA while ago, my Spectrum 48K (issue 3B) broke down after fiddling with a brand new joystick interface in combination with DivIDE. Today I tested the …

    ... is causing the video to generate random pixels. The lower 16KB of ...
    Ricardo99 Ricardo99 September 2014 Hardware
  • FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…

    ... be not longer than some random number.

    [QUOTE][QUOTE]As ...
    Timmy Timmy January 2015 Brand new software
  • Random object placementI'm looking for some advice on placing objects randomly in a game. I have a routine that reads a table and prints the corresponding object: 0 prints…

    [QUOTE=Jerri;817782][QUOTE=Einar Saukas;817774]I just run a simple empirical test (plotting randomly on screen) to compare the random generator algorithms mentioned here:

    [CODE]10 FOR f=0 TO 20000
    20 LET y=USR 32768: IF y
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2015 Development
  • CMWC random number generator for Z80Seeing the interest regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23070"]Xor-Shift random number generator for Z80[/URL]…

    ... correct, best options for random number generators should be:
    ... Rak's Xor-shift random number generator[/URL], 28 bytes ... Optimized Patrik Rak's CMWC random number generator (unaligned)[/URL], ... Patrik Rak's CMWC random number generator (aligned)[/URL], ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2015 Development
  • CMWC random number generator for Z80Seeing the interest regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23070"]Xor-Shift random number generator for Z80[/URL]…

    ... /> Now the best options for random number generators are:

    random number generator[/URL], 28 bytes ... Optimized Patrik Rak's CMWC random number generator (unaligned)[/URL], ... Patrik Rak's CMWC random number generator (aligned)[/URL], ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2015 Development
  • CMWC random number generator for Z80Seeing the interest regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23070"]Xor-Shift random number generator for Z80[/URL]…

    ... be called for independent random sequences.  It's ... /> ; Generates an 8-bit random number from a 75-bit seed ... org/forums/discussion/39632/cmwc-random-number-generator-for-z80
       ; exit  : a = random number [0,255]
       ;         seed updated ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2015 Development
  • CMWC random number generator for Z80Seeing the interest regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23070"]Xor-Shift random number generator for Z80[/URL]…

    ... . If you google for "z80 random number generator", the top hits are ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak May 2015 Development
  • Would you like to test my astrology life calculator?<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">While the forum was down I got into astrology</span></font><div style…

    You should convert this to Z80 so we can use it as a random number generator!
    joefish joefish May 2015 Chit chat
  • Procedurally generated levelsThere seems to be a myth roaming the internet that Spelunky was the first game to use procedurally generated levels. I'm pretty sure there are ear…

    ... really just 'pseudo-random'. They appear to be random but they're ... to make sure that a 'random' sequence of numbers is actually ... repeat.

    Some crap random number generators will output each possible ...
    joefish joefish June 2015 Chit chat
  • Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…

    ... "]fprand()[/url]" that returns a random number between 0.0 and 1 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2015 Brand new software
  • New Game: The Order of MazesI'm pleased to announce my first full game release since Flynn's Adventure in Bombland 4 years ago. It is called The Order of Mazes and you can downl…

    ... are etc... It uses a random number generator to determine all of ... will have different mazes. The random number generator it uses is [url ... /forums/discussion/23070/xor-shift-random-number-generator-for-z80/p1"]Patrik ...
    TomD TomD October 2015 Brand new software
  • New Game: AmnesiaHello! First of all, sorry for my English. I have developed my first game. It is called "Amnesia", and I have used the Freescape engine "3D Con…

    ... which is triggered utilising the random number variable. Have you checked out ...
    Flanimal Flanimal December 2015 Brand new software
  • Mr. Jido makes some noiseA little something to analyse and discuss for you. [code] ORG 60000 ; RND Generator: RND LD HL,EARTH LD A,(WIND) ADD A,L LD …

    ... to be some sort of random number generator, perhaps pausing for a ... random period, or something like that?... ... plant and its prerequisites as random conditions, when you look at ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil December 2015 Development
  • New Game: AmnesiaHello! First of all, sorry for my English. I have developed my first game. It is called "Amnesia", and I have used the Freescape engine "3D Con…

    ... which is triggered utilising the random number variable. Have you checked out ...
    huelvy huelvy December 2015 Brand new software
  • London - recommendations for things to doHello folks :) Heading down to London for a few days (1st-3rd March) with my girlfriend. It's been quite a while since I was last in the Big Smoke…

    ... weird computers, including ERNIE (1950s random number generator) and a gold plated ...
    textvoyage textvoyage February 2016 Chit chat
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