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Historically accurate emulations of early PCs, down to the timing, with the original manuals and ROM listings alongside.
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PCjs Machines sits in Emulators & Old OS under Retro, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Operating systems, arcade cabinets and dead software booted inside a browser tab. Nostalgia with a working keyboard.
Yes. PCjs Machines is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use PCjs Machines without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file PCjs Machines as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Eight and sixteen-bit console libraries running in the browser, organised by system, with save states that actually work.
Coin-operated arcade cabinets from the seventies onward, emulated in a tab, attract mode and all.
Apple II software preserved and emulated, including the educational titles that an entire generation met at school.
Several thousand DOS, Amiga and console titles catalogued with screenshots, each playable without leaving the page.
A database of essentially every named summit on Earth, with prominence figures, ascent logs and rankings that fuel very long arguments.
A crowd-voted encyclopaedia arguing over the MBTI and enneagram type of every fictional character and public figure in existence.
Proper trait questionnaires with the scoring shown, rather than a quiz that decides you are a golden retriever.
Sixteen questions sort you into one of Pew's nine American political groups, with a decade of real survey data behind every one.
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