The package also contains a useful console routine, making it the first edition of the Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator that has a serious practical use

Are you kidding? WFRNG is by definition one of the most useful programs ever!

seriously, not much of a game, and it gets featured in fake news on ticalc.org!!!!
(it's a simple number guessing game)
also i first thought it would generate real random numbers such as 25.4758476747 and 555.69876. That's what it indicated with the version number: v1.0000000069. Hmph.

seriously, not much of a game, and it gets featured in fake news on ticalc.org!!!!
(it's a simple number guessing game)
also i first thought it would generate real random numbers such as 25.4758476747 and 555.69876. That's what it indicated with the version number: v1.0000000069. Hmph.

Jhgenius01,

I think you are missing the point of the whole WFRNG thing.

The goal of this program was not to show programming skills. In fact, if you compare the original TI-86 version of this game, it's worse than any other TI-86 guessing game ever made and if you notice, the file description was purposely written in an exagerated form of n00bish'ness. The author who made the 2000 version was ticalc.org news editor at the time (and one of the best). He was well aware that the archives were flooded with tons of crappy games, games that were done over 200 times before, programs that doesn't work and useless ones. So why would a popular TI community contributor suddently release such a crappy game then? Well, here's the answer: it was purposely intended to rant about the low quality of ticalc archives and the lack of originality from programmers (especially TI-BASIC ones), but in a sarcastic way. WFRNG is simply a parody of all crappy games on ticalc.org. It's a joke, literally. Hence why it was featured in a fake news. News flash: none of those games were included in the POTY awards.

The whole WFRNG thing has been a running gag in the TI community for a decade now. Sadly, new members like you (no offense intended) don't get the joke anymore, because in 2008, the community lost many of its older programmers and barely got new ones, so when the community activity started to pick up again in late 2009 and new members joined, there was nobody to relay the joke. I admit that the old news about WFRNG were better, though. Also there are rarely fake news anymore so people are not used to them anymore. As for the two previous WFRNG articles, due to making even less sense, it was clear that ticalc.org was joking.

Here is the original WFRNG article from 2000: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/38/38229.html
The one about the TI-83+ ASM port, by the guy who wrote Omnicalc and several notable apps, and also was News editor for 5 years: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/11/115/115018.html Go on the last comments page and you will probably see it was really meant as a joke (read the set of 6 comments posted in all-caps. If you can't find it, I have it quoted in my forum signature. Just click the Spoiler button.)

I am pretty sure nobody on this forum even find this program great, not even the ticalc news editors, nor myself, nor its authors/porters. All it is is a sarcastic joke, an old TI community meme (like rickroll and lolcats) and whenever there was an invasion of crappy files on ticalc.org, people did a reference to the WFRNG joke. I even planned a TI-81 and 85 port, at one point. Heck, maybe I should learn ASM and make the 85 port ZShell compatible. Magnus, the founder of ticalc.org, will probably have a good laugh! Had Snake X not ported this game to the Nspire, I would probably have done so, at one point.

Now I hope that you understand the whole thing behind this. Omnimaga had its own similar jokes in the past. I got 7 featured games on ticalc.org, yet 4 years ago I wrote a grayscale number guessing game and convinced someone else to write a grayscale quadratic solver. Ticalc needs some humor sometimes, eh? Else it can become boring.

No problem. The thing is that for those who haven't been around for a while, it can be a bit harder to distinguish ticalc.org jokes and the like from other news. THis usually lasts until April Fools day. I wanted to make sure no hard feelings were held towards the author and ticalc due to the joke being taken seriously (which happened once with the original, as someone didn't see the news)

I got the joke when I started reading the reviews...

also i just read your spolier in your signature dj omnimaga and the news article with it. Great story, if only we could have true AI. it seems that the program has been ported to nearly every ti plaform

Nice. Another port! Quick, let us port this to all available platforms! Make a z80 and m68k version of the WFRNG OS!
Congrats on the feature though.

I won't repeat myself

So far it's for the TI-73, 80, 83+, 84+, 86, 89 and Nspire I think. Not sure about 83.

One thing, though: you didn't leave the readme file and title intact