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From: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: RangeRand seed
Message-ID: <4637@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 23:09:04 GMT
References: <148@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <148@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> davea@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Dave Allen) writes:
>Somebody recently mentioned the function RangeRand in amiga.lib....
>...What is the function in amiga.lib that initializes the random seed? 

There is none.  You need to add to your code a:

	extern ULONG RangeSeed;	/* For C */
	XREF _RangeSeed		;For assembly

And set it to your start seed.  Usually the number of clock ticks since
the machine was powered on is a good place to start the seed.


Note that a previous document for this function listed the above as a UWORD.
That was wrong!

			-Bryce