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[quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'178002\' date=\'Feb 16 2008, 01:53 PM\']
Seriously, could computers do random (or pseudorandom) processes back then, or were squares drawn out of a hat?
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The TTD board was a bunch of ganged-up Apple IIs. I assure you that the Apple was capable of random number generation.
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As long as you didn't use the built-in "random number" generator unassisted, it was. If you were to write a program that used the random number generator to print ten random numbers in a row, then turned off the Apple II, turned it back on and ran the same program, you'd get the same ten numbers.
There were ways around this, of course, and considering that we didn't see the dragon in the same place at the start of the first bonus round each day, I think we can safely assume that the programmers assigned to Tic Tac Dough were aware of said workarounds. :-)