Use other sprite numbers between 0 and 511.For,example: ACLS SNUMBER=5 A=SNUMBER+1:DIM SX[A],SY[A] FOR S=0 TO SNUMBER:SPSET S,0:NEXT FOR S=0 TO SNUMBER SX[S]=RND(300):SY[S]=RND(200) SPOFS S,SX[S],SY[S] SPCHR S,RND(100) NEXT