Executable formats
Software concept
Mostly of interest are formats that are no longer supported or in active use.
This is a container group; its children are:
| CMD executable | Comes in the .CMD binary executable format, associated with the CP/M operating system. (too short) | 0 game | |
| COM executable | Comes in the .COM binary executable format, associated with the CP/M and DOS operating systems. Applications in this format are all 8-bit and have maximum on-disk size of 65,280 bytes. | 1987 / 1996 | 7 games |
| DOS MZ executable | Comes in the DOS MZ .EXE binary executable format, associated with the DOS operating system and different from the later WinPE .EXE format. | 1989 / 1996 | 8 games |
| Executable and Linkable Format | Comes in the ELF executable format associated with UNIX System V and unix-like operating systems. (too short) | container group 2 games | |
| NE executable | Comes in the NE .EXE binary executable format, associated with DOS 4.0, 16-bit Windows, & OS/2. Designed to replace DOS MZ, it was quickly replaced by PE. | 1 game |