alt Hacker NewsMy favorite is the Doom random number generator, which is just a list of “random” numbers that it cycles through and if you know how to use it, you can do things like concentrate BFG attacks.
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PennRobotics • today at 7:45 AM
:)
the closely related not-at-all-random fizzlefade from Wolfenstein: https://fabiensanglard.net/fizzlefade/
xoxxala • today at 5:47 AM
EverQuest also used pre-generated numbers. The randomness was derived from the large number of players using the same list.
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nomel • today at 2:40 AM
Reminds me of a "Dice" electronics kit I assembled when I was a kid. It just used some standard sequential counter ICs run at very high rate. Pressing the "roll" button would just stop the counter!
decino made a video about that, and at 13 minutes in the video they show what happens in-game if you set all values to 0 :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3x1Jy8pYM