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Was learning machine code a waste of time?I remember computer magazines from the mid-1980s often had features about using machine code, which I duly skipped over as it seemed totally impenetr…
... learning the meaning of apparently random strings of numbers and letters wasted ... -
Was learning machine code a waste of time?I remember computer magazines from the mid-1980s often had features about using machine code, which I duly skipped over as it seemed totally impenetr…
... learning the meaning of apparently random strings of numbers and letters wasted ... -
Was learning machine code a waste of time?I remember computer magazines from the mid-1980s often had features about using machine code, which I duly skipped over as it seemed totally impenetr…
... learning the meaning of apparently random strings of numbers and letters wasted ... -
Was learning machine code a waste of time?I remember computer magazines from the mid-1980s often had features about using machine code, which I duly skipped over as it seemed totally impenetr…
... learning the meaning of apparently random strings of numbers and letters wasted ... -
New game: QuizTron 48000 seriesOkay, this time I made a series of games. I got inspired to make a trivia game engine, and found a set of questions.. that was too large to fit into …
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Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…
... trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your ... /> "This is the 32-bit random number generator routine I used ... fast and returns a reasonable random
number. This version ... USR calls. Refer to the "Strings" section in my compendium at ... -
random numbersCan you write a piece of code that gets you a truly random number from the Spectrum, or is it only capable of generating a pseudo-random number (ie. …
... that gets you a truly random number from the Spectrum, or ... capable of generating a pseudo-random number (ie. one from a ... -
Wanted: Monty Mole and the random crushersA fairly good rip off of Jet Set Willy, this game suffers from one main weakness- the randomly falling crushers. You can be the best player in the wo…
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Random Smiley FacesAs promised, here's the Syntax: ;Startup 5 CLS 7 PAPER 0: BORDER 0 ;Graphics 10 FOR n=0 to 7 20 READ row: POKE USR "P"+n,row 30 NEXT n 31 DATA BI…
... DATA BIN 00000000
; Random Numbers
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RND not random?I recently wrote a simple Alien style game where the bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after a while the Variable that is supposed to …
... bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after ... that is supposed to be random gets stuck on a number ... -
Random Pick.I finished the game 'Simpsons Hit & Run' on the weekend and I am about to choose another game to start playing in a few days time. I was thinking of…
... got me thinking that a 'random pick' feature might be a ... archive so that a totally random game could be choosen for ... -
I need ASM for random numberI need to generate a random pair of coardinates in asm so that x=random no between 0 and 31, y=random no between 0 and 23. Any ideas on how to code …
I need to generate a random pair of coardinates in asm so that x=random no between 0 and 31, y=random no between 0 and 23.
Any ideas on how to code the above
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How do I get a random numberHi, I need a simple routine to get a random number from 1 to 4. I don't need nothing very complex or that much random, it just have to produce diffe…
... simple routine to get a random number from 1 to 4 ... very complex or that much random, it just have to produce ... -
Pseudo random numbersHi everybody, I 'd like to convert a little program i wrote in VisualBasic6.0 to C or C++ to make it run faster and for training as i'm a very very n…
... program in VB gets 5 random generated numbers (min=1 max ... to have the very same random generated numbers (not only the ... /> More generally:Can the pseudo random numbers generated in VB environment ... some way synchronized to pseudo random numbers generated in C or ... -
Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget - Random World of Spectrum gameWell, now you all have a reason to upgrade to Windows Vista... I knocked up a sidebar gadget to load random games from World of Spectrum. Every 15 m…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... for smithore mining.
4. Random events, good and bad. Shit ... plot for that good, a random element, economies of scale and ... column" string being printed at random locations in either left, center ... , look it up under the strings library. Also look up the ... -
problem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…
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Random Gamer ep1 - Spectrum SpecialHi, in Random gamer I randomly choose 3 games for a given system and do a sort of video review of them. The first attempt is with Spectrum games and …
Hi, in Random gamer I randomly choose 3 ... YouTube Gaming Video's inc. Random Gamer Ep2[/b][/u][/url] -
10 Random things about you.Have a butchers of this. 1. I fell thirty feet out a window when I was 1 year old onto concrete, landed on my ass and survived totally unscathed. …
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Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is ... -
Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
... can choose at random,(or at least as random as spectrum basic ... -
Kung Fu Knights / Random things on tapesI've just sampled 'Kung Fu Knights' by Top Ten and was cropping the samples and thought there was some garbage or random data at the end of side 2. W…
... there was some garbage or random data at the end of ... else ever come across any random stuff hidden away on tapes ... -
Random game text funMy wife is watching Nigella Lawson shovelling her cooking into her pie hole, and she was making Chocolate hotpots. But it sounded like she said Hot-a…
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Anyway this totally random train of thought got me ... me wonder if typing other random bits of text or conversations ... -
Random numbers...Hi Folks, I am not an expert when it comes to random numbers. If I have the RANDOMIZE statement the beginning of a program and then proceed to gene…
... expert when it comes to random numbers. If I have the ... and then proceed to generate random numbers from that seed I ... should get a pseudo random sequence - correct?
However ... -
Help with random numbers......Hi all, wonder if anyone can help me... sort of a novice here ... I have been trying to write a simple ish basic program to compare random sets of n…
... ish basic program to compare random sets of numbers
for ... of 6 numbers that the random generating routine (that i thought ... !
10 REM PUT RANDOM NUMBERS INTO X ARRAY
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Space Invader names pleaseHi all, Feeling creative? If so I could do with some help creating names for a feature in my next game (another platformer) featuring a lot of rand…
... platformer) featuring a lot of random generation. More on that later ... from two separate list of strings.
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BASIC: Find the nearestHello guys) A few days ago I found oldie ?Jeux et casse-tete a Programmer? by Jacques Arsac (Paris?85) and suggested my nephew to try a few in Basic…
... ?s a hero at a random position
- there are X ... ?s respawned at a random position with a random value.
random position with a random value.
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joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
... much reorganised & condensed; the joining code is new. LOAD at ... -
editing strings with INPUT LINEHere's the latest in my unpredictable series of utility routines. This one I needed for the SAGE game editor; it emulates INPUT LINE l$ but with the …
... /> The vertical cursor enhancement from "joining lines of BASIC" (but not ... the joining bit, of course) could also ... -
Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
... previous interest in games before joining them or was it a ... , I realized that the random number generator was producing the ... was actually pseudo-random. So Phil wrote a random number generator ... that was truly random, not just pseudo-random. I remember it ...
