Animated GIF

Grumpy2305 Lebans has created a GIF player some years ago : https://www.lebans.com/animatedgifplayer.htm

Besides that you can take a look at my article : https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/33716/Defeating-the-device-independent-bitmap-dib-format.html

If you examine the code you will see that at some time i use a collection to store the images..so you could extend the code to handle the images per frame and play them via a timer event

It won't be .gif (haven't test it) but you could gather e.g a couple of hundred frames and playback them..depending of the quality you want you could go as up /or as low...

1 second animation should be smooth at around 15fps so with 150 images you could have a 10 second animation

For now the code is 32bit only but i have made some tests and possible i will offer a 64bit version in the near future