The CC generator even had a little bit of assembly code inside of it (to change the appearance of characters, and to use text colors other than the 16 standard ones). It used part of my screen framework too, for the buttons. Overall that app was a moment of brilliance despite its, err, shady reason to be.

The sign one was “Watersig”. That was also pretty cool. I remember I even released it as shareware but I ended up sending it for free to whoever asked. I don’t think it used the mouse though — I had a hard time getting mouse input in QB, I used some assembly to do that but it was pretty flaky so I never really employed it anywhere.

The Maiden app (and the e-mags I created using part of the code) was awesome, it even had the doom-like “page switch” animation where text would just slide down the screen. And the e-mags would fade in and out *smoothly* from screen to screen, also using assembly, and were all programmed by changing a text file — the emag exe was just an engine to the dat file. Much similar to what I do with XMLs and sites in Flash today!

My biggest app was one I never released, “Watermail”. It was a QWK reader. It was pretty awesome looking. But I started running into memory problems and just abandoned the project. Learned a lot from it though.

You know, sometimes I find it really hard to believe some of the stuff I created. That was around 12 freaking years ago. I look back and say “holy fuck that boy was a genius” but then I realize it’s me and then it seems like I’ve been moving backwards. I’m creating some fun stuff, but programming shit for myself and a few nerd friends for no reason at all, and still adding every little detail and perfecting the code and making it super beautiful just because I wanted to… THAT is amazing.

I don’t know. It’s crazy.

And your (i think…) bluewave addon/plugin to select your sig with the mouse?

and ofc, the super cool MAiDEN app

damn.bas

Oh wait, that’s my code there. WHEW! I can stop crying now.