Hi everyone.
There's a great DVD you can buy from Amazon etc. called "Look around you" which is a series of spoof schools programs from the 1970s. These programs have the schools countdown timer with the little rectangles on it and some pretty dodgy music too...
Attached are a couple of flash files of the schools diamond pattern and the schools countdown timer with the circles. You will need to have flash installed for the animations to work. If you want to run them full screen, you can download the files and use a little freeware application called "Swiff Player" from the Internet. The flash files were written by someone much cleverer than me, although I don't know who. I think you can download them from the BBC web site if you can work out where to look.
http://www.oldtechnology.net/misc/BB..._Countdown.swf
http://www.oldtechnology.net/misc/BB...ls_Diamond.swf
http://www.oldtechnology.net/misc/SwiffPlayer11.exe
Thanks everyone.
From Mike.