[Coco] Tandy Color Computer 3 RND Function

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:41:50 -0500
Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:20 PM, Melanie and John Mark Mobley
> > <johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I said) The value of the stack pointer at the next timer interrupt
> > is somewhat random. But now that I think about it some more...
> > The value of the program counter at the next timer interrupt is
> > somewhat random. But now that I think about it some more...
> > The value of the return location that is stored on the stack at the
> > nex timer interrupt is somewhat random.
> 
> Thanks Steve, John Mark, and the rest of you, for keeping me up too
> late writing up an article for www.subethasoftware.com
> <http://www.subethasoftware.com/> about RND. It will be posted Friday
> at noon CST.
> 
> 		— Allen
> 
> 

    I just knew that Allen would write it all down for us to reference.
Thanks Allen!!

    It should be noted that when I worked for a company that sold
display equipment to casinos, any random number generator what we used
had to be approved by the local gambling commission. Just like the
gambling devices themselves, they had to be 'random enough" for the
commission.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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