GioTux boots inside a normal Windows console and turns it into its own little operating system — a persistent shell with a real command set, its own app format, and a couple of modes to drop back into Windows when you need to.
Nothing gets replaced. GioTux takes over a console window, runs a shell loop on top of your real file system, and hands control back cleanly on exit. Under the hood it's still your machine.
ls, cd, grep, find and friends do real work against real files — this isn't a static screensaver pretending to be a terminal, the commands run.
Save a color scheme once and it sticks. Write a .gtux app in a few lines. Drop a batch game in the games folder and it shows up as a command.
Need the real console back? cmd drops you into an unmodified DOS-style window. Need to actually fix something? Passcode-locked admin mode gives you the real tools, on purpose.
This is a small simulation of the real prompt, running in your browser — not the actual GioTux binary. Type a command below.
Try help, ls, whoami, ginfo, cowsay [text], fortune, matrix, or sudo.
Requires Windows with cmd.exe (built in). PowerShell is used for a few extras like ginfo and the fullscreen switch — also built in on any modern Windows install. The gui command needs Python installed separately.
Looking for older builds or a changelog? See the releases page.