I am trying to display a full-screen image (or flash screen) in DOS for a spacific number of seconds. I can write batch files, I can write basic (such as qbasic), and I can write c++ (using a Windows Borland product). I don't care which I use to get the job done, as long as I can get it to work. I am only just learning c++, but there are several qbasic processes I used to use to do similar things, such as load a bsv file and sleep, but it distorts the image. When I try to compensate, the computer is reset. I've tried searching the web for source code that would display the image in bmp format, but they seem to only display the image properly if it is a large black square. I don't care what format of image file I have to use either. Even if it is only 16 colours with a 320*200 resolution. The best image I have for this purpose, however, happens to be 256 colours. I appologise if I make no sense. If you understand enough to help, any help will be pleasing to me :)

The only thing that comes to mind is an image handler from Alchemy Mind Works which will, among other things, convert an image to a self-displaying exe. Maybe you could use that and then implement in your code the wait time to quit display [maybe output a BREAK or ESC] and go to the next step. M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Google to the rescue. http://www.philipz.com/qb/source.htm (source code for bmp loaders in qbasic)

Fozzie, the source code at that site works perfectly with extremely mild editing! Thanks for the help! %00