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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The signifigance of the seeds in Accrete
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.130009.6596@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 13:00:09 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder) writes:

>    This algorithm is therefore fairly succesful.  Does anyone know of a
>better way to generate seeds, guarranteed to be different each time, on any
>Apple II, independant of the use of GetLn, and which does not require the
>program to keep track of the last seed?

Umm.. ask the user to press a key, and do a GET a$ or something. This scrambles
the same location GetLn does (because GetLn calls the same key input routine
as GET, and the key input routine is what actually increments $4e and $4f).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu