Hi Mike,

Here is a link (with code) that might be of use to you:

http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/generators/

Good luck with your project!

mcb



At 03:17 PM 03/09/2000 +0000, Mike W wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I'm just starting on my first PIC project ( its starting life as a  random
>morse code generator ) and I could use a routine to produce a
>random number between 0 and 45 decimal to use as a lookup
>variable.
>
>I have some example code written in Cvasm/Parallax assembler to
>do something like this but I'm not competent to successfully translate
>this code to MPASM with any confidence.
>
>I'm using MPASM because whatever assembler I eventually use I'll
>need a good understanding of MPASM to debug native code so I'd
>better learn MPASM syntax first.
>
>At present I'm using the timer to trip an interrupt every 1/500th
>second which toggles porta.0  to produce the tone on a piezo
>sounder if a flag is set, and not if reset. so the timer is being used,
>but perhaps it could be used as a seed
>
> Anyway, if you can help it would be appreciated. I brew a really
>mean Bitter Ale.( approx 14%pv )
>
>Thanks... Mike W mike@corn2.freeserve.co.uk
>

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