* * * PIETER.COM * * *

now running on your Atari ST

Welcome! You are reading this page inside CAB (Crystal Atari Browser), on an emulated Atari ST with TOS 1.02 -- and there is no internet connection at all. This HTML file lives right on the Atari's disk. It is a real 1996 web browser rendering a real web page, just the way it looked back then.

How deep does this rabbit hole go?

This page is being drawn by a stack of machines pretending to be other machines:

Your modern web browser
...running DOSBox, compiled to WebAssembly
...booting MS-DOS + Windows 3.11
...running PaCifiST, a DOS-based Atari ST emulator
...which boots TOS 1.02 and the GEM desktop
...which loads CAB, showing you this page

A browser, inside an OS, inside an emulator, inside an OS (MS-DOS), inside an emulator, inside a browser. Six layers deep. And it is fast enough to read. Kind of.

Have a look around

CAB can browse the Atari's own disk like a web site. Click below to see every file on drive C: as clickable links:

Browse drive C: (this disk)

pieter.com / 2026