So I came up with this, which seems slightly better than parsing out the seconds portion of time$. It gives a larger range of numbers and uses a little less code. Still seems like a terrible way to get a pseudo random number though.
100 FOR I=1 TO PEEK(63791):J=RND(1):NEXT 63791 is some sort of clock-related counter that keeps cycling down from 125 to 0. On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Josh Malone <josh.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > You only need to see once I think. RND is basically terrible on these > tiny machines, but.. hey what to you expect in 10 lines :) > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org> > 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> > 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> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:48 AM Kevin Becker <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. > >> > >> > > >
