You own a beige Pentium 133 MHz running Windows 95, wired to a 15" CRT glowing in a dark room. It is 1996. You also own 565 viruses. This was always going to end badly.
Click the POWER button on the tower (or just start a New Game). Watch the BIOS POST count memory, coax the Award BIOS beep out of the PC speaker, press DEL for the BIOS setup if you are curious, and F8 at the Windows 95 splash for the boot menu (Safe Mode is a real thing and it really does help).
The VIRUS.EXE laboratory opens with Windows. Pick any strain from the list, read its payload, then hit INFECT. Or hit CHAOS to dump five random strains in at once, because restraint is for other people.
Every strain eats System Integrity. At zero the machine blue-screens and you must reboot it. Reboots keep your run alive but not your dignity. Some payloads are permanent: the tube burns in, dead pixels spread, fans stay loud, RAM stays wrong. Tap Right Ctrl to terminate every running payload and reset the desktop on the spot, or turn the tower off to cleanse everything — either one is a cure, only the power switch clears the permanent damage.
MS-DOS prompt accepts dir, mem, ver, format c:, deltree c:\windows,
virus, chaos, reboot, cls, exit, and yes, help.
The Turbo button genuinely switches the CPU between 133 MHz and a heroic 66 MHz. The degauss button genuinely
makes the picture wobble. The floppy drive genuinely eats nothing, because it is a game.
Every virus here is fictional and harmless. Nothing touches your real computer, no files, no network, no install. It is one HTML page and a canvas pretending to be 1996. Malware is not cool in reality; here it is a firework show.
| Concept, design, direction | happystoner5420 Games |
| Engine, CRT optics, shaders | happystoner5420 Games |
| 565 virus strains & payload lab | happystoner5420 Games |
| Windows 95 environment simulation | happystoner5420 Games |
| Beige plastic authenticity dept. | happystoner5420 Games |
| Sound (Web Audio, no samples) | happystoner5420 Games |
| Fictional. Faces. Nothing here is real. | happystoner5420 Games |
Built with HTML5 canvas, WebGL, Web Audio and a deep and abiding love for beige. No real malware was harmed, written, or included. This software is 100% offline: it cannot and will not touch your filesystem, your network, or your actual Windows 95 machine that you should absolutely not be running.
Thanks to everyone who ever owned a machine that took four tries to boot. You know who you are. You still hear the fan at night.
Sharpness above ~70 starts to bite; glow at 0 removes the halo entirely. Computer noise is the fan, the drive and the case itself — slide it down if the room should be quieter.
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
This simulator cannot close a browser tab that a script did not open, so it has powered down the rig instead. Close the tab whenever you are ready — the machine is off, the room is quiet, and the fan has finally stopped.