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From: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice BLink problem
Message-ID: <1859e774.ARN0a72@swinjm.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 12:45:40 GMT
References: <1990Nov22.133240.12613@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: The Software Winery
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In article <1990Nov22.133240.12613@gdr.bath.ac.uk>, J I L Gold writes:

> In one of the modules in the game I'm writing, I'm needing to get
> a random number. So, I #include <math.h> and use the function
> drand48() to give a double in [0,1). [...]

Don't know if you really want a double, but if not you'll find all you
need into amiga.lib (1.2, 1.3, 2.0x):

extern ULONG RangeSeed;             /* declared in amiga.lib */
    ...
    RangeSeed = your_seed_value;
    ...
    your_random_number = RangeRand( maximum );
    ...
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