STATIC, the software TV-tuner Copyright 1997 Marco Nelissen This is based on something I did on my Amiga way back when, although I used an entirely different method of generating the static there (had to, because of the lack of colors). The way this one works is: - open an 8 bit BWindowScreen of the desired resolution - fill it with random garbage, taking care not to use color 0 - generate a random palette each frame (The Amiga version used two bitplanes with random data that moved in front of each other). There is a slight problem with BWindowScreens, which will make this blanker usually not respond to mousemovements, you'll have to press a key or click a mousebutton to unblank. Enjoy! Marco Nelissen