Rand() is not random...

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>Is there something i'm doing wrong, does something stay in
>memory, or does Blitz have a certain pattern which
>imitates a true random effect?

Generally, computers produce pseudo random numbers, not true random numbers. When you use a timer as seed for the rnd function, you simply force the rnd function to begin at a different location in a table of predefined pseudo random numbers.

Andy