Play the classic SSI Gold Box role-playing games in your browser, on a recreation of the 1980s PC they were made for. 2 of the 13 titles run today, and 9 more are planned.
Amber Folio does not include the games: you bring your own copy, and they are still sold today on GOG and Steam.
What to expect
Built for these games
Not a general-purpose PC emulator with a settings file, but a machine made for exactly what the Gold Box games need. The program you bought runs on it unchanged, so every rule and quirk is the original’s — how it works.
A controller or a screen reader
A controller plays the game on a computer, a phone or a tablet: the d-pad walks the party and moves the game’s own highlight, A takes the command and B backs out, and any button can be given another job — controllers. A screen reader reads the game’s menus, lists and messages aloud, and where the party is as it explores and fights, but not the pictures — screen readers.
Enhancements built in, not bolted on
An automap, the journal on the game’s own screen, a rest that heals the party in one command, and an easier-to-read font for the game’s text. Each is part of the game’s screen, reached through its own commands, and none changes the story, the rules or the challenge — enhancements.
The way it looked
These games were drawn for a tube. The CRT filter draws them through a colour monitor’s mask and scanlines, and the footsteps and fights play on the Tandy 1000’s sound chip, as the game drives it.
Nothing to install, nothing uploaded
Open the page and play, always on the latest version. Hand over your game folder once: it and your saves stay in your browser and are never uploaded. No account, no cookies.
Saves that travel
Export a saved game as a zip that unpacks straight into a GOG or DOSBox install, or bring saves in from one. Your party is never locked in here.
Open source
The emulator is a public project (opens in a new tab) under the AGPL-3.0-only licence. This site runs v1.2.0, built from commit f222bd3 (opens in a new tab). See licences.
