Re: [pbmserv-dev] Change to the random algorithm

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

Yes, the seed and the number of times rand has been called
is stored in the board file

    (random seed n)

Undo does not automatically do the resetting of the seed, etc.
yet.  We need to look into that, but it could.

The main updates were game.h and game.cpp.  (to add the random field)

Additionally, all programs that used rand() in their code were also
updated...  so...

    backgammon.cpp
    cardgame.cpp
    chex.cpp
    dots.cpp
    es_entropy.cpp
    life.cpp (which is a copy of dots, not life, but a place holder)
    moultezim.cpp
    plakoto.cpp
    powerdrain.cpp
    scramble.cpp

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:53:10PM -0500, Douglas Zander wrote:
> do you mean that the "seed" is also stored in the file along with
> the number of times that rand() was called?   If this is true then
> would an undo work automatically or does the programmer still need
> to do something special for a game with rand() calls?   (I would
> assume that an undo would automatically look for the seed)
> Also, I wish to ask which files were updated, I would like to have
> the newest files for my testing server. 
> 
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