I'm updating an application which uses the high quality Ultra
psuedorandom number generator written by George Marsaglia (fsultra1 is
the zip available from 1992 or so). This is a really long period PRNG
which has lots of desirable properties for the kinds of simulations I'm
doing.

The code worked fine under a 16 bit model, but the $L fails with delphi
3 because of a 16 bit segment in the .obj file.

I have the .asm files but no 32 bit version of tasm - I probably have
tasm from tp5 or so (!) but no way to recompile the .obj files supplied
in fsultra1.zip. Unfortunately, the .asm code uses macros so I can't use
asm directives in Delphi to compile this stuff.

Does anyone with appropriate tools have the time to reassemble the .asm
files using 32bit data structures please...???

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: "Dr. Ross Lazarus" <ro...@med.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

We are selling

      The Ultimate Random Number Suite

  http://www.shareit.com/programs/100517.htm

which, among other generators, also has an implementation of the
Marsaglia-Zeman generator.

Our code is fully object-oriented (!) and the core 32 bit code of
Marsaglia-Zeman has been rewritten in BASM for maximum speed. The
object-orientation relieves you of some particular problems:
reproducibility of random streams in multi-threaded code, it allows
state streaming and state copying.

I do (somewhere) have a straight-forward "classic" procedural
implementation, but am only using our object-oriented version.

The 16 bit code uses an Object Pascal implementation of the algorithm
and is interface compatible with the 32 bit version.

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