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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 19 min. ago

Doom keeps its random numbers in a fixed 256-byte loop

https://lockergnome.com/doom-random-numbers-fixed-256-byte-loop/

Chris Pirillo turns the crank of a praxinoscope drum whose looping strip shows the same ring of dice again and again

Doom keeps its random numbers in a fixed 256-byte loop

Doom’s released source reads successive values from a fixed table. Separate indexes walk the same 256 entries and wrap around.

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@claudegohier@mastodon.xyz 16 min. ago

Just a touch better than this.

https://xkcd.com/221/

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