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News > Dicebag version 1.0

#28696 - krom - Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:29 pm

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A nice dice simulator has been released by Sean James including source:

It is a dice rolling program for the GBA, devleoped using HAM and HEL,
and implementing a custom font routine.
Sources are included in the .ZIP

Download the dice simulator + HAM source from the main site!

#28720 - Lord Graga - Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:47 am

There's some obvious optimizations to be made, most of all, there's no SWI halts in the mainloop that saves batterylife and CPU.

#28869 - pollier - Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:57 am

Also, in regards to dice-rolling mechanics, I get the same number every time I start the program... might want to seed the generator with values taken from, say, user input.