It is a pretty neat game. I have no idea what MTH$RANDOM is.Can you suggest some...

pjscott · on Jan 19, 2013

The best reference that Google turned up, IMHO, was the info page for the GNU Scientific Library's random number generators, which has MTH$RANDOM under the name gsl_rng_vax():

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Other-rando...

Of course, that info page can't tell you what seed the VAX in the game is using....

sswezey · on Jan 19, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Unfortunately, I can't get the numbers to fit, even with accounting for 00, and using an actual roulette board order.

dsr_ · on Jan 19, 2013

Roulette board order doesn't matter. It's calling the RNG sequence.

My mistake was feeding the mod 36 output back in as the next seed; it's the output from the RNG itself, and a good thing too...

mindcrime · on Jan 19, 2013

https://www.google.com/search?q=mth%24random ??