10,000 dice game

[sagacity_61]

Has anyone attempted to build a picaxe version of this dice game (also called Farkle, Zilch and Boxcar) ?

I made one using 08M's and although I get random rolls using the simulator, on the actual prototype I get the weirdest results.

I've loaded each of the six PICs (on the one PCB) with a slightly different random generating routine, but all dice come up the same value, even though they are have a slightly different time delay loop before displaying (which means the random number seeding is different for each dice [or is it])?

Any constructive comment in the attached schematic and program would be welcome.

thanks

 

[eclectic]

Quick reply.

I suggest that you re-post this question to the
main forum.

The Sandbox is normally used just for testing.

 

[hippy]

Movd to Active Forum.

It's not clear to me exactly what you're doing but you need to keep calling "RANDOM w0" multiple times to get different numbers. A new random number is only generated when RANDOM is executed, so simply delaying various amounts of time won't affect the number chosen.

Your code is also wrong, although that might just be for debugging or testing ( you're overwriting whatever w0 is ) ...

makenumber:
   random w0       
   w0 = b2
   b2 = w0 // 6 + 1

 

[sagacity_61]

Movd to Active Forum.

It's not clear to me exactly what you're doing but you need to keep calling "RANDOM w0" multiple times to get different numbers. A new random number is only generated when RANDOM is executed, so simply delaying various amounts of time won't affect the number chosen.

Your code is also wrong, although that might just be for debugging or testing ( you're overwriting whatever w0 is ) ...

makenumber:
   random w0       
   w0 = b2
   b2 = w0 // 6 + 1

thanks for those comments - hit it on the head I think

 

[sagacity_61]

Thanks for the advice. I'll try to do that.
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