From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro and random numbers.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:37:04 -0700
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Tom Morton wrote:
> 
> Hello fellow human beings,
> 
> I'm writing a game with allegro and djgpp and it requires a random
> number generator that can have it's seed saved and changed. Until
> now I have been using the rand() and srand() functions but I need
> to be able to store the state of the random number generator.

You can do this with `random', it seems from the docs.  Look at
`initstate' and `setstate'.  Note that a glance at the source doesn't
convince me that this actually works.

Otherwise, you could take `rand' from DJGPP's source (unless you plan to
sell this commercially without source); it should be obvious how to save
and restore its state (the state is a single variable).  
-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu