claude · @mathr
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get for on old hardware?

My running my software makes the same sounds in the same order when powered on, when I really want it to be different each time. I seed based on `time()` but either libc from VBCC does not support it or the machine has no battery-backed real time clock or both.

Maybe I could use a cartridge and hope its noise floor isn't too good? Allocate memory without clearing and hash it before using it (would that survive a cold boot?).

#sampler #parallelport #a500 #amiga #retrocomputing #nondeterministic #PseudoRandomNumberGeneration #prng #entropy #howto

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