Will only work in Power Basic 3.0, not QBASIC 5 b=10 10 popup quiet b:popup sleep using ems, "C:\mike" 30 b=b-1:delay 1:locate int(rnd(1)*23+1),(int(rnd(1)*70)+1),1 35 if b=1 then let b=10: print "I am an alien trying to communicate with you from the Oort cloud!" 60 goto 10