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.
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Alternate names: DOS/4G, DOS32A
DOS 1996
DOS 1993
DOS 1996
DOS 1995-04
DOS 1993-12-10
DOS 1993-06-03
DOS 1997-06-20
DOS 1995
DOS 1997-03
DOS 1997-09-30
DOS 1996-09-30
DOS 1994
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.
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)
* 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)
The first DOS extender video game was released in 1993.
Electronic Arts, GT Interactive and id Software published most of these games.
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Platforms
By year
A | 1991 - Watcom C 8.5 w/ DOS/4GW released |
B | 1996 - DOS/32 released |
C | 2002 - DOS/32 made free |