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Subject: Re: Linear Feedback Shift Register
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:49:35 -0000 (UTC)
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Duhast wrote:
> On 9/11/2024 11:58 PM, Kent Dickey wrote:
> 
>> Your original code didn't initialize RAND to anything.  So it may vary
>> between systems.  My modified code initialized it to 1.
>> 
>> Kent
> 
> In my original code, I DB'd RAND as $01.  I'm not great at assembly, but 
> is that not initializing it?
>

If your assembler takes DB to mean "define a byte within the assembled
object code," then yes. Use the Monitor to check your program after you load
it into RAM, but before you execute it, to verify it is $01.

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