Run my VB apps on real Windows 98
A full Windows 98 boots in your browser via x86 emulation. Double-click the desktop shortcuts to play Pong, QuicNote, SPG, and the MP3 Alarm Clock — the apps I wrote as a teenager.
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1998 · Where it begins
2000 - 2005 · Visual Basic era
Product ID Changer
Windows product ID registry tool. Source on GitHub in 'old-vb-projects'.
SPG
Early utility project with screenshot.
Lost works: early VB games
SPG's three missing siblings from the Software Division — Superterran Tic Tac Toe, Superterran 21, and the One Armed Bandit (slot reels: Bill Gates, Tux, Pac-Man, and the ST logo). Tripod blocked binary crawling, so only the descriptions survive. Documented in Doug's own period words.
MP3 Alarm Clock (RC4)
My first 'killer app' — a feature-packed MP3 alarm clock: 7-day planner, unlimited playlist, volume fade-in so you weren't blasted awake, and a full-screen flashing clock. Freeware, offered for '3 easy payments of $0.00.'
Pong
Two-player pong with accelerating ball physics. My first real program.
Superterran QuicNote
A notepad replacement with a custom UI.
Picture Screen Saver
Custom screensaver that cycles through images. Source on GitHub in 'old-vb-projects'.
Superterran Alarm Clock 2
The rewrite — a Windows Media Player-driven alarm clock with a playlist. Source on GitHub in 'old-vb-projects'.
AVI Screen Saver
Screensaver that plays AVI video files. Source on GitHub in 'old-vb-projects'.
ActCrack
A Windows XP activation tweaker from my teenage 'tinkering with things I probably shouldn't' phase. Preserved as a historical artifact — source kept private, not distributed.
Dead Screen Saver
A simple screensaver build. Grab the .scr and right-click to install.
ST's CD Burner
CD burning utility. Source on GitHub in 'old-vb-projects'.
2001 - 2005 · The hand-coded years
Superterran XP
A teenage Windows XP beta review ("Yes You Can"), a school tech column (Doug's Geek Corner), and the XP-styled personal site that hosted them — written while beta-testing 'Codename Whistler.'
The ST Mark
The homemade Superterran branding — including the "ST·UT" banner ad (an Unreal Tournament screenshot pasted with the site URL), the Superman-parody ST crest, and the crosshair-and-globe logo that outlasted every design it sat on.
superterran (Tripod)
The original, hosted on Tripod and recovered from the Internet Archive — the framed personal site: a Flash intro, Windows XP hype, gaming, and homebrew software. (Some unfiltered 2001 ranting trimmed.)
Flash intros
Three Macromedia Flash 5 animations from the Tripod site — the "remixed" logo intro, a looping logo bumper, and a tall Flash navigation menu — dead since 2020 and now playing live again in-browser via Ruffle.
Site Construction Made Simple(r)
My flagship superterran.com tutorial: a pitch for using PHP includes to assemble your site's interface instead of hand-copying HTML into every page — rendered by my own homemade engine, 'superterran Fussion 1.3.' Reproduced in full in my 2002 voice.
superterran.com 2002
First real domain. The 'remixed' splash, captured from the Internet Archive.
superterran radio
A personal-site jukebox: the 2002/2003 site auto-played a folder of Windows Media streams — Eminem, Jay-Z, NSYNC, Timberlake. Preserved as a track list plus a real "My Shared Folder" Kazaa-era playlist (the songs themselves aren't re-hosted).
superterran.com 2004
Redesign with Flash elements.
Codename Longhorn
A mock Windows Longhorn desktop built in the browser — taskbar, start menu, sidebar, draggable windows. A lot of late nights went into this one.
Background music
The folder of game and TV MIDIs that played as site background music — DuckTales "Moon," Duke Nukem 64, TMNT, the Mario 1-Up jingle, I Dream of Jeannie. Dead in browsers for years; now playing again client-side via a General-MIDI soundfont.
2004 - 2008 · Off-the-shelf CMS · b2, WordPress & Drupal
superterran.com 2005
Custom blog/CMS era (the b2 days). Captured from the Internet Archive.
Royale: My Desktop, 2005
A screenshot I posted to WinCustomize — my maximally-customized Windows XP (Royale visual style, Inspirat wallpaper, a Samurize sidebar, Trillian). The whole personality of a 2005 power-user in one JPEG.
Flame Truth
A large phpBB flame-war forum (6700+ files), flametruth.com. Its recolored subSilver skin, rebuilt and hosted here from the original theme — content neutralized, usernames anonymized.
superterran.com 2006
Bigger rebuild — blog, articles, music, podcasts. Captured from the Internet Archive.
Serwich & Associates
A real-estate / business-brokers site for a Myrtle Beach client — my one Drupal build, from the years of reaching for someone else's platform. Database-driven and never archived live, so preserved here as the period portfolio screenshot Doug kept.
The Vanguard Online
A flame-war community portal — forum, gallery, arcade, downloads. The PHP/database site can't run here, so this is a static preview of its chrome skin (content neutralized).
Doug's Secret Shrine (2008)
Late-era WordPress blog (the 'blog-oh-blog' theme), restored from the original site backup.
2008 - 2013 · Fusion · my own CMS
Fusion CMS
Custom CMS with plugin architecture, XML routing, and MySQL config. A real framework — the engine behind the final superterran.com and the 2011 blog. Source preserved on GitHub as 'old-fusion'.
Waccamaw.org
Tribal organization website.
Audiophile
Romance Via Proxy — a short, music-framed story in chapters. Sanitized for the museum.
superterran.com 2010
The Fusion-CMS final version. The domain lapsed around 2009–2010, so no live capture survives — source preserved in the archive.
Hive
A social-app platform ('Fun Sun Studio') with a honeycomb identity — its login screen, rendered from source with an empty database.
superterran blog 2011
A 2011 blog at blog.superterran.com — recovered from the Internet Archive. A late, polished personal-blog incarnation, running on Fusion.
FileView
A PHP web file-browser with switchable themes — shown in its Mac-style 'iDisk' skin, rendered from source with a sample folder.
LyricPimp.com
An SEO playground — a sprawling, alphabetized lyrics directory that pulled real search traffic and got genuinely popular for a while. Built on my own Fusion CMS; named in honor of 'KP' from my old handle.
madhabits.com
An anonymous personal blog I hand-coded in PHP — its own little engine, not Fusion. Famous (to me) for a hex-dump aesthetic: every line framed in random dark-red hex digits, with a theme switcher. Rebuilt from the original theme files and database.
MyCMS
A simple CMS-like framework built to walk through basic web-app concepts — the teaching-sized sibling of Fusion. Source on GitHub.
Legend of Canvas
HTML5 Zelda-clone game engine. Sprite animation, room transitions, enemy AI. Runs live in your browser.
LCARS Theme
Star Trek LCARS-style Tumblr template. Pure CSS panel layout.
supa
A PHP MVC framework with a user/login panel system — the last of the home-grown frameworks before settling into Magento. Source on GitHub.
superterran.com · unused designs
The Lair
An intro design for superterran.com — clean left-nav layout, 'Welcome to the lair.'
Simple
The 'image-free alternative' — a deliberately text-only superterran.com blog layout.
Slicker
A minimal black superterran.com design — 'slicker than your average.' Only the shell survived the backups.
Digital Harmony
A 'coming soon' superterran.com design with a swirl logo; a couple of inner pages survive.
Brent
A noir splash for a brent.superterran.com subsite — red rules and a silhouette.
Techno
A dark, techno-styled superterran.com header design.
Floating Point
A superterran.com design built around a collage of childhood video-game characters.
The Flesh Look
A retro superterran.com design — a strolling James Dean and an alpha-blended layout.
Client & template work
Fun Sun Studio
Going pro: my Pawleys Island, SC web-design & hosting shop, later rebranded 131 Digital. Custom non-template e-commerce on in-house Mac Xserve servers — with recovered client builds: Palmetto Cheese, Surf The Earth, Lowcountry Jewelers, and an interior-design studio.
The businesses that almost were
The flip side of going pro: a trail of business names I gave a logo and a splash page before my attention moved on. Coastal Bits even got a finished mark — recovered here — but never a company.
EDRA
Corporate brochure template (built for a client, 'Billy') — a Flash circuit-board header over a clean blue layout. The Flash is revived via Ruffle.
WeBe Studios
A web-design studio splash page — blocky multicolor type over a swirl background, 'coming soon.'
WeBe Grand Openings
The fuller WeBe web-studio site — a three-column 'Grand Opening' layout selling templates, hosting, and custom design.
Black Jack Secrets
Promo-site template for a gambling how-to book — a Vegas-strip cover panel and simple chapter nav.
Tools & experiments
SOAP Weather
Weather API client using the CDyne WeatherWS SOAP API, with a matching background image. Source on GitHub.
stare
inotify file-watcher wrapper. Proto-nodemon. Source on GitHub.
GTK Hello World
First GTK application — a Python/GTK3 Hello World window. Source on GitHub.
MageMan
A PHP CLI tool for doing things to Magento sites — an early take on the dev tooling that became a career. Source on GitHub.
projman
Linux web-dev workflow tool and project scaffolder. "My first Python script." Source preserved on GitHub.
magesane
A SQL-dump sanitizer for Magento — strips and shrinks databases to speed up imports. Source on GitHub.
pingo
A small PHP/AJAX script that monitors internet connectivity. Source on GitHub.
Dr. Pharmacy
A browser-based Dr. Mario clone built on the Prototype framework — a sibling to Legend of Canvas in the learn-by-building-games tradition. Source on GitHub.
Honorable mentions
USS Endeavour
Not my site — but the best thing the archaeology turned up. A play-by-email Star Trek RPG (the Akira-class USS Endeavour, Bravo Fleet Task Force 21) that I crewed as a kid, run by someone else and recovered from the Wayback Machine. The LCARS fan-web my own first websites grew out of.
Computing through the years
The constant underneath everything: a kid who couldn't leave the machine itself alone. XP beta-tester, leaked-Longhorn reviewer, LiteStep/Royale shell-skinner, then Mac, then Linux. Real period desktop screenshots, recovered from old backups.
LiteStep themes
Before the unused superterran.com skins, before the browser Longhorn desktop, a teenage power-user was tearing the Windows shell out by the roots. My own Tripod site says I made LiteStep themes — but no theme file survives anywhere across 13+ customization repos. Known to have existed, files lost.
The kid who wrote about computers
Before the blog and the career, a teenager who couldn't stop writing about computers — a leaked-Longhorn review, an Apache how-to, a Steve Jobs essay, a PC-repair intake form. The tech-writing slice of the personal archive.
MySpace Layouts
Dozens of custom MySpace profiles, made and traded back in 2006 — the most ephemeral artifact the web ever produced. No layout file survived, but my own 2008 blog proves I was modding my profile's guts and hosting them off-site. The honest record of what's lost, and what we could still prove.
SupaCEC
HDMI-CEC glue that makes a RetroPie switch the TV's input when the controller turns on — small, satisfying living-room automation.
Tandy 1000EX
Tools, disk images, and notes for restoring and using a Tandy 1000EX — a 1980s PC clone kept alive decades later. Off the web story, but the same tinkering streak that started it all.
Game Genie Lookup
A statically generated Game Genie code-lookup service, whipped up in a couple of hours — search real cheat codes for the NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, and Game Gear. Retro gaming meets modern static-site generation, running live here.