How to code a lotto program and best programs for lotto programming.

Reply #47

mindtab — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:48:07 GMT

I agree. And me personally, I use Powerbasic. Qbasic I used in the past. Not enough anymore for what I am doing. Backtesting is the way to find out what will be, or can be. Eg. Backtest for example, which 15 out of 39 numbers were top and least numbers. ANd let's say result would be, that for the past draw, 3 numbers came from the least 15, and 1 number came from the Top 15, and 2 from the past 10 draws in which they had at least 2 times. So, there you have the chance to eliminate many numbers,... [ More ]

Reply #46

riscknight — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:58:31 GMT

I use both 7 and 8. I prefer 8 to be honest.

A lot of folks though still want the 'Start Menu' and ofc that makes sense.

Reply #45

SkyLine69 — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:22:09 GMT

I have to agree with Todd. I hated Windiws 8 at first, bought a copy of windows 7 3 months ago and have not installed it yet. My biggest problem was the sidebar. Once I bought a mouse that issue went away. However, they do have quite a few bugs they need to fix but as far as speed it's lightening fast. I do wish they would work on their compatibility of Office 2013. 64 bit

Reply #44

SkyLine69 — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:18:26 GMT

I use excel and multiple different written tools (Macros) to help predict what happens next

Reply #43

SergeM — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:07:28 GMT

How long to go with Windows 7

Reply #42

RJOh — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:46:19 GMT

MicroSoft has done its job to get the word out, every time I use my XP computer I get a message about 04/08/2014 being the last day it will be supported.

Reply #41

Todd — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 02:03:56 GMT

I totally agree. It borders on criminal to purposely install Windows XP on any computer currently. Any IT person making that recommendation should be immediately fired.

I personally would not recommend Windows 7. Despite any misgivings you may have with Windows 8, it is superior to Windows 7 in every respect, and even though you may or may not initially like the interface, I recommend sticking with it, as it will grow on you.

If you can actually immerse yourself in Windows 8, especially wi... [ More ]

Reply #40

omiller315 — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 01:12:06 GMT

He built you a new computer in 2014 with XP on it? Wow. Being an IT guy of 20 years, I would advise anyone to pay the $100 to get Windows 7 upgrade over (guessing the free Xp install). XP was easier to install with corporate licensing. Windows 7 is alot different in that regard. I am not a fan of Windows 8, but you can install a 3rd party start button to make is easier to use. Just not sure how any computer shop/IT guy would install XP in good conscience.You can still get Win7 software, laptops

Reply #39

Nikkicute — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:48:10 GMT

Thanks so much

Reply #38

SergeM — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:59:30 GMT

There is a rumour that some people use linux for Internet. Others surf with Android.

Reply #37

riscknight — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:12:18 GMT

You can use your old Computer but I wouldn't recommend it under any circumstances for '*Internet*' after Microsoft stops supporting XP.

Check out Todd's post in his blog.

https://blogs.lotterypost.com/todd/2013/8/your-perilous-future-on-windows-xp.htm

Reply #36

Nikkicute — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 04:51:33 GMT

I was thinking the samething, what am I suppose to do in April

I just got my new computer Monday (yours 10 years I had mine 11 years lol) and the guy at the computer shop who built me a new computer still uses WindowsXP so I did not upgrade to Windows 7 or 8.

He explained to me when Windows support stops I can still use it on my computer.

I can still use the older computer, it's not totally broken down, they just need to start over and reinstall

WindowsXP over again and some mem... [ More ]

Reply #35

LottoBoner — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:25:30 GMT

No. This is a term I coined. It is a play on words really. It should be called a Polymerase Reaction Chain.

Of course we are not using mRNA or ribosomes or anything, but I like the ring of it.

I am sure it is something you have thought of, although I dont know If I would go for 32 number 2if2 wheels as you seem to go for.

It will be in my first book after I win a large Jackpot.

Or if LottoLaughs doesn't mind I can put it as an appendix in one of her books. (for a small fee)

Terms... [ More ]

Reply #34

chrissy16 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:27:24 GMT

I think Excel/VBA is the way to go for any lottery system.

Reply #33

Igamble — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 03:21:27 GMT

i got my statistics done using apache oppenoffice -someone did it for me ! i just gave the instructions ...only learned many years ago BASIC program ,i think in 1992 i learned that ....but going back to JP games i use similar combinations of groups of at least 3 or more numbers on different lines -preferably at least 3 lines ;This are taken out from 2-300 drawings ...

Already it gave me 4 out of 5, 3 times in cash 5 games ..and many ,many 3 of 5 ...and it did very good in PB also.The million... [ More ]

Reply #32

dsscsystems — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:13:20 GMT

I use CSharp, also u can use VB, i have been working a lottery program myself using CSharp, what programming languages do u know? Also it seems u are tring to implement some statistics, which analysis method are u trying to imploy

Reply #31

RJOh — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:23:22 GMT

Original Post by LottoBoner

This looks like a polymerase chain reaction to me.

Is this a term you learned by reading GH books? What does it mean

Reply #30

LottoBoner — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:38:59 GMT

This looks like a polymerase chain reaction to me.

I would go for all odd numbers next.

If that doesn't work I would go for all evens.

If that doesn't work, I might go rob a bank.

If that doesn't work, I would invest in the stock market.

A gamble is a gamble.

Reply #29

RJOh — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:49:09 GMT

Niether have I but in random events almost anything can happen and often does.

Reply #28

SergeM — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:42:48 GMT

I haven't seen anyone proving anything that wouldn't fit into randomn events.

Reply #27

RJOh — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:45:52 GMT

The 70% that do have a connection to past drawings varies so many ways that they would be hard to explain in a comprehensive manner. Besides, anyone who was really interested in such data would be willing to do the research to come up with it.

Reply #26

SergeM — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:32:25 GMT

30% = no connection then 70% have a connection to the past drawings. You would have to detail your response to make it comprehensive.

Reply #25

RJOh — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:33:27 GMT

Systems that try to pick combinations based on past results find about 30% of drawings results have no connections to past drawings which may because most lottery games are changed or ended before picking one percent of their possible combinations.

Reply #24

SergeM — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:22:22 GMT

Another tactic might be to avoid what worked just too well in the past and look for a different outcome.

Reply #23

RJOh — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:34:03 GMT

Finding out what worked in past drawings is easy, predicting when it will work again in the future is the hard part. For example the last two drawings in Ohio's Rolling Cash Five.

MON 02/17/14 - 02 09 29 35 39

SUN 02/16/14 - 09 15 29 35 39

Reply #22

lottologix — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:21:44 GMT

Forget months try years. Constant backtesting to find what actually works, and what work together.

Reply #21

phileight — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:43:20 GMT

The fact that Microsoft will stop supporting XP does not change your being able to use it. I use windows 98 every day at work.

Reply #20

RJOh — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:03:26 GMT

I have until April, I read MicroSoft plan to stop supporting XP after then.

Reply #19

lottoburg — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:59:31 GMT

Reply #18

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:39:09 GMT

RJOH

If your programs will compile using QB 4.5 then they will run on QB-64. Even your GW code should

take very little tweeking to convert to qb-64. I still perfer to use QB-64 for lottery programming and

you can copy the DLL's to your system32/64 folder and then the compiled programs run from anywhere

on your PC. QB-64 was designed to be compatable with QB45 coding and if you decide to give it a try I

suggest the SDL version 0.924. I use a little bit of everything but like I said... [ More ]

Reply #17

RJOh — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:16:28 GMT

If an idea is acted on then one knows if it was any good.

Reply #16

Igamble — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:44:11 GMT

yep ,i was one of them.It took me almost 2 weeks to get a chart done .

Reply #15

SergeM — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:09:56 GMT

People think that they can get top class Excel files for free.

Other people think that they have good ideas.

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Reply #14

RJOh — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:42:57 GMT

I've heard good things about Excel but never brought a copy or learned to use it. I like the idea of having stand alone programs that don't require knowledge about another program. All my GWBasic programs have been complied using a QBasic complier.

Reply #13

phileight — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:18:55 GMT

RJOH I used gwbasic for many years. Excel's VBA uses essentially the same code as gwbasic. a few syntax differences and how to reference a location on the display and you can be up and running. saving your Gwbasic file as a text file you can them copy and paste into a VBA macro, edit as needed. check out gasmeterguy blog on how to get started.

Reply #12

mmx1 — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:08:36 GMT

Microsoft Visual studio Express is free and the best.

C# language.

Reply #11

RJOh — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:39:23 GMT

How do you plan to use your programs once you upgrade beyond Windows XP? Windows XP is the last version of Windows that can run MS-DOS programs without a emulator program like DosBox.

All my programs are written using GW-Basic but I still have a XP computer by HP that's over 10 years old. I'm thinking about learning Visual Basic, Liberty Basic or some other that will run in Windows 8 and rewriting them.

Reply #10

MillionsWanted — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:30:39 GMT

Here's a list of free office alternatives:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-microsoft-office-alternatives

Reply #9

SergeM — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:25:25 GMT

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Migration_Guide/Calc_and_Excel

I saw a version of Open Office a few years ago on Linux I believe, and it was programmable, as I tried it in the second hand shop. They recycled old pc's installing Linux and Open Office. I suppose that MS is standard. There is Excel for Mac too and it had a good reputation.

Reply #8

omiller315 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:14:03 GMT

Martor. You brought back flashbacks. I use to use Qbasic in high school and loved it. I then went to Visual Basic. It is the same type of code, just more Visual with forms and such. VBA(Visual Basic for Applications) is used in Excel. I think if you know QBasic and the logic of variables, loops and if/then statements, you should be able to incorporate VBA into Excel and really make Excel powerful(which Excel already is without VBA)

IGamble. Open Office equivalent of Excel is pretty decent. Th... [ More ]

Reply #7

Igamble — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:46:07 GMT

I just started and i have a mac , so i use oppenoffice which has some difference compare to excel but in the end it does the same thing.

Reply #6

SkyLine69 — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 06:26:37 GMT

I use excel. It does everything I need

Reply #5

GASMETERGUY — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:56:59 GMT

A few posters here think Excel is the best tool for tracking lotto numbers. Do you have Excel

Reply #4

Igamble — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:07:51 GMT

thanks mate

Reply #3

martor854 — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:31:32 GMT

You will find good info here:

http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic

Reply #2

Igamble — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:13:31 GMT

thanks !what's something similar for mac ? i see a lot of this programs are written for windows only...

Reply #1

martor854 — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:26:49 GMT

Hi Igamble,

I use QBasic to do all my programming for lotto. It is good enough for an amateur like me. It comes with MS-DOS and older versions of Windows. I use it to check things I notice over the database and/or generate/filter sets of combinations with numbers I input. Nothing random, only the numbers select using other methods. Hope it helps.

Regards,

martor854

How to code a lotto program and best programs for lotto programming.

Igamble — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:20:41 GMT

I was in a coding quest for a JP chart that finally loks like is done and since that was some headache i thought of opening a discusion about best programs for Lotto coding .I realize virtually 0.0003% of users on LP have no interest in this but i do b/c it has to do with me playing the lottery and wining more and getting better at it .All the others can play their birthdays and add/substract all they want ....