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DOS extender

Software entity

Uses any DOS extender (such as DOS/4G) that breaks the memory limit of 640kB, allowing at least up to 64MB to be addressed.

32
games
2
platforms

Alternate names: DOS/4G, DOS32A

Syndicate (MS-DOS)
Syndicate
DOS 1993-06-03
Shannara (MS-DOS)
Shannara
DOS 1995
Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance (MS-DOS)
Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance
DOS 1996
Seek and Destroy (MS-DOS)
Seek and Destroy
DOS 1996
Little Big Adventure (MS-DOS)
Little Big Adventure
DOS 1994
Dungeon Keeper (MS-DOS)
Dungeon Keeper
DOS 1997
Albion (MS-DOS)
Albion
DOS 1995
The Ultimate Doom (MS-DOS)
The Ultimate Doom
DOS 1995
PowerSlave (MS-DOS)
PowerSlave
DOS 1996-12
Witchaven (MS-DOS)
Witchaven
DOS 1995
Syndicate: American Revolt (MS-DOS)
Syndicate: American Revolt
DOS 1993
ShadowCaster (MS-DOS)
ShadowCaster
DOS 1993
Note that DOS/4G allows addressing up to 128 MB RAM, 64MB in the free GW version.

DOS/32A is not used by any real DOS era games or applications, but works as a drop-in replacement for DOS/4G, and allows memory addressing up to 2GB.
Known DOS extenders:
* DOS/4G (dos4g.exe and dos4gw.exe) -- 4GW was bundled with Watcom C compiler, 4G itself was more advanced commercial version.
* DOS/32A (dos32a.exe)
* Borland RTM loader (rtm.exe)
Related:
* DPMI

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Games by year

91939597990103050709111315 123690 ABC
A1991 - Watcom C 8.5 w/ DOS/4GW released
B1996 - DOS/32 released
C2002 - DOS/32 made free

The first DOS extender video game was released in 1993.

Electronic Arts, GT Interactive and id Software published most of these games.

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

MS-DOS 31
Linux 1

Most common companies

Electronic Arts5
GT Interactive4
id Software3
Interplay Entertainment3
Interplay2
Playmates2