ian@dgp.toronto.edu (Ian S. Small) (11/23/88)
After a couple of comments in a recent Sun-Spots regarding the potentially dishonourable conduct of gammontool, I decided to spend some (very small amount of) time examining the source. Based on ten minutes investigation, I can report to all the frustrated gammontool users out in netland that it does not appear that gammontool cheats. This is based on the observation that the die rolls (generated with the incantation "random() % 6 + 1") are displayed on the screen before they are sent to the strategy modules for determining where the computer should move. Therefore, unless the die rolls change on the screen while you watch, it seems unlikely that the computer is cheating by modifying or influencing the die rolls. It just seems that computers are *very* lucky sometimes... Ian S. Small Dynamic Graphics Project Computer Systems Research Institute University of Toronto (416) 978-6619 Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 BITNET: ian@dgp.utoronto EAN: ian@dgp.toronto.cdn UUCP/CSNET: ian@dgp.toronto.edu