How to animate a gif for a very simple loading screen?

How Do I Make A Fake Loading Screen?

• What's the easiest way to create a fake ZX Spectrum/Amstrad/C64 loading screen? So I'm helping put together a stage show based around computer and video games, and it'll involve a digital projector and whitescreen. I want to look at the possibility of faking up a loading screen that brings up the show title at the beginning like on an old cassette-based game, you know, with flashing borders, the data noise, and then the picture being drawn. What's the most straightforward way of somebody with limited technical aptitude accomplishing this? At the moment I see two possible methods: a fake flash-based recreation of a game loading, or running an emulator with a custom-written programme in it that brings up said screen. While the latter would look more authentic, my programming skills don't extend beyond making the word 'POO' appear when you press any key. Is there a way I should be approaching this? Please note: I'll consider 'No, you are a moron. This is not possible,' answers perfectly legitimate if this is, indeed, a ridiculous idea.

• Answer:

  All the emulators b1tr0t mentions will work great, and getting a screen to load in on an Amstrad is simple. Let's see if I can remember: To save what's on the screen, you go: save "pic.bin",&C000,&4000 That is, save the 16kb of memory from address &C000 to disk. Then to load it: load "pic.bin",&C000 And it will appear just like a "typical" game loading screen. Assuming you've set the palette correctly. Putting together a simple BASIC program to do this is easy, contact me if you want to proceed along this route and I'll see if I can help. Of course, drawing the picture there to begin with is the difficult part - I don't know how you would do it other than using drawing software on the CPC emulator, some of which you're sure to .