Play XTreeGold Online
You navigate your DOS files in a clean tree view, zipping and unzipping archives with a few keystrokes—no more memorizing commands just to find a document.
Game Overview
XTreeGold was basically the closest thing to a proper file manager you could get on DOS back in the day. Instead of wrestling with cryptic commands, you got this semi-graphical interface where you could actually see your files and folders in a tree structure—revolutionary for 1989. The menus were keyboard-driven but way more intuitive than anything Microsoft shipped with DOS.
What made it stick? Speed, mostly. It ran like lightning even on ancient hardware, and little things—like being able to undelete files or peek at hex dumps—felt like wizardry compared to the barebones DOS shell. The ZIP support was a big deal too, back when compression wasn’t just built into everything.
Windows eventually killed it, which is ironic because even now, Windows Explorer still can’t do some of the stuff XTreeGold pulled off effortlessly. The Windows version was a mess though—they stripped out all the good bits, and that was pretty much the end of it. If you’ve ever cursed at a file manager for being slow or clunky, you’d appreciate how ahead of its time this thing was.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
Download XTreeGold ROM
You can download this ROM to play XTreeGold offline using an MS-DOS emulator (Top Emulators).
*This ROM is provided for backup and educational purposes only.
