GenX-DOS

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This one needs a keyboard

GenX-DOS is a desktop DOS terminal and 8-bit emulator suite — you drive every machine from a physical keyboard, so a touchscreen can't run it. Open it on a desktop or laptop and the whole museum is open to you.

Retro computing · self-hosted · desktop

GenX-DOS

Boot classic computers and consoles
from a life-like DOS prompt.
Nothing to install.
Zero telemetry.

Enter the museum

Desktop · keyboard-driven · nothing to install

The front room. Type a number, a machine boots.

What you're looking at

A museum that boots

Behind each number on the menu sits a working replica of the real machine — faithful enough that the games can't tell the difference. Forty-year-old software actually runs.

Nothing installed, nothing tracked

The whole thing arrives in one go and runs from a single place. No downloads while you play, no accounts, no phoning home. That is this site: a copy you host yourself is the same software; all you have to provide are the games and firmware.

It has opinions

Not "the 8-bit era" — the 8-bit feel. Ten games per system, sorted by year, every control checked against the original manuals. Curated, not dumped.

See it running

The GenX-DOS menu shown inside a photographed IBM 5153 CRT monitor on orange 70s wallpaper, in a browser tab. — The launcher — box-drawn menus inside a real IBM monitor.

California Games booting on a photographed Atari Lynx handheld, held up in a browser tab. — California Games — running on an Atari Lynx handheld.

Spec sheet

Systems35

Games438

Emulators19

To installnothing

Tracking & downloads0

Every machine, game and page ships in one clone and runs from a single origin.

Go further

Read The story How a life-like DOS prompt became a 35-system arcade — the feature article. Browse The wiki Every machine, how it's put together, and what's shipped or ruled out. Open The source The emulators on GitHub — static HTML, no build step, CC BY-NC 4.0 with the emulator glue under GPL. The games are not in it; ROMS.txt says what goes where. Discord Come and say hello Questions, bug reports, or a machine you would like to see here. A new tab — off-site, so it leaves whatever you have running alone.