> A lot of people replied my letter about the R register
>(flash trivia: did you know that Spectrum programmers thought
>it was a "secret register"? I'm not kidding and have no idea
>where they got that notion...) The use of it as a random number
>generator is obvious (if not read too often, of course). Setting
>it up, though, seems a dangerous operation on some computers...
>Maybe it could be used for... Crashing the computer? Genetic
>algorithms with real random mutations? Some kinds of computer
>artwork...?
I was wondering: does the R-register still have its function on the R800 or
the Z380, I mean does it still change continuously??? I heard something...
~Grauw
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