On M100/T102, you can seed the RND function by poking the RAM. It is
stored as an 8-byte floating point number represented in BCD format.
Your first may look like garbage characters if printed, but will work in
calculations:
10 R=-1745:S=-902:POKE R,PEEK(S):POKE R+1,PEEK(S+1)
That should seed the random number generator with about 1664 different
possible values.
Ken
On 1/31/18 10:44 AM, Kevin Becker wrote:
Now that I haver Virtual T running, I hit my first snag on the first
line of my program.
Is there a good way to seed the random number generator in M100
BASIC? The only method I've found so far is to do a for loop based on
the "seconds" portion of the current time. That seems inefficient,
especially in a 10 line program.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org
<mailto:ke...@kevinbecker.org>> wrote:
I hadn't found CloudT before but that is very cool.
I got the precompiled VirtualT binary working on Fedora 27 by
downloading the source from http://ijg.org and compiling it myself
and then, instead of doing a "make install", I just copied the
single libjpeg.so.9 binary to /usr/local/lib64/ and added that
path with ldconfig.
It's working now.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:56 AM, John R. Hogerhuis
<jho...@pobox.com <mailto:jho...@pobox.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:48 AM Kevin Becker
<ke...@kevinbecker.org <mailto:ke...@kevinbecker.org>> wrote:
So I gave it a go on a fresh Fedora 27 VM and the binary
is complaining that it wants libjpeg.so.9 and I have
libjpeg.so.62. I tried a symlink but it really wants that
specific version.
Well when you decide to give the build a shot again I suggest
asking on the list for help from another Fedora user. VirtualT
build is always a little bit of messing about to build but it
always comes together after figuring out what packages and
make command line to use.
But I will say I’ve never had much luck with the canned binary
except in Windows.
Also if you just want to play in BASIC I created a JavaScript
emulator
http://bitchin100.com/CloudT
— John.
