_textShadow shadows text, so if text shadow wasn't cleared by _clrScrn, you would see text, not black dots. Who knows what the dots are from > >_clrScrn completely clears _textShadow, right? For some reason, even if >I use _clrScrn before exiting, three black dots appear on the home >screen for the three bytes of _textShadow I used.