The Apple IIGS archive · Since 1996

What is the Apple IIGS?

Thirty years of Apple IIGS software, cover art, manuals and screenshots, preserved by Alex Lee. Explore the archive through an emulator, stream it to real hardware, or run it right here in your browser.

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1,196 Title pages

736 More apps on boot volumes

781 Zips to download

212 Boot in browser →

2,299 Disks, stream with CoGS →

IIGS Archive

Applications231 titlesProductivity, creativity and system softwareGames299 titlesThe gaming library, action to simulationEducational243 titlesClassroom classics that put the GS in schoolsHardware133 titlesCards, accelerators and peripheralsPublications222 titlesBooks and magazines of the GS eraDemoscene58 titlesDemos and intros, FTA to Ninjaforce and todayEmulation15 titlesEmulators, front ends and FPGA cores

GS/OS boot disks

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Ready-to-run hard drive images: a complete System 6 install, every OS version on one Taifun volume, and 32 meg collections packed with installed software. Download, boot here, or stream the same volumes to a CoGS-equipped IIGS.

Boot Disks

Download or stream: every disk here boots on real hardware and emulators alike · 11 items

System 6.0.1 Hard Drive Image12.8 MB zip · 18 titles System 6.0.4 Hard Drive Image12.8 MB zip · 18 titles Every GS/OS & ProDOS 164.3 MB zip · 1 title System Add-ons12.1 MB zip · 18 titles Fonts14.8 MB zip · 3,001 files Action Games16.7 MB zip · 25 titles Adventure and Simulation Games19.5 MB zip · 33 titles Board Games and RPGs15.7 MB zip · 29 titles Sports & Unreleased Games12.5 MB zip · 21 titles Games with Path Modifications12.3 MB zip · 37 titles Productivity & Visual Creative13.8 MB zip · 34 titles more →all boot disks

The demoscene

Nothing shows what a IIGS can do like the demos written to show off. From the Free Tools Association's Nucleus and Modulae in 1989 and 1990, through Ninjaforce's Megademo, to 256-byte intros released this year, 58 productions each have a page with the history, the original download and, wherever the disk allows it, a Boot in browser button. Floppy-only demos run in the emulator's 3.5" drive; the rest are on two ready-made collection volumes that also stream to a real IIGS.

All 58 demoscene pages → · FTA & the French Scene · Ninjaforce · Groups & Parties 1988-1999 · Modern Scene 2007-2026 · Tech Demos & Intros · Collections & Launchers

CoGS

Modulae1990Bootable CoGS

Nucleus (FTA)1989Bootable CoGS

Ninjaforce Megademo1995Bootable CoGS

No Hard Feelings2021Bootable

XMAS Demo (FTA)1990Bootable CoGS

Opale1994Bootable

Delta Demo1991Bootable CoGS

Interweaver2026Bootable

Highest rated by visitors

From two decades of ratings submitted on the original site.

CoGS

Zany Golf1988Bootable CoGS

Merlin 16+ v4.081989Bootable CoGS

Symbolix1990 - 1995

Greek Mythology1991 CoGS

Plunder1990

Apple IIGS Sales Demo1986

GNO/ME1991 - 1993 CoGS

ProTERM 3.11993

Probe GS1987 CoGS

ShadowDial1992

Run a IIGS on an emulator

No hardware needed. Every title here can be tried in an emulator on the computer you already own, and most of the bootable ones run right on this site. These are the current emulators, front ends and FPGA recreations, with notes on which does what. ROM images for emulators are on the Boot Disks page.

GSSquared2026