Notable DOS Extended Applications
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 1.0 (uses an early version of DOS/4GW professional)
- AutoCAD 11 (PharLap 386)
- Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3 (Rational Systems DOS/16M)
- Oracle Professional
- IBM Interleaf
- Major BBS, a 1980s BBS software package that utilized the Phar Lap DOS extender.
- Quarterdeck DESQview and DESQview/X multitasking software
- Watcom's C, C++ and Fortran compilers for the x86
- Countless DOS games from the early to mid 1990s, mostly using DOS/4GW, including:
- id Software's DOOM and its sequels, as well as Quake (built with DJGPP)
- Looking Glass Studios' System Shock,
- Parallax Software's Descent
- Crack dot com's Abuse
- Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
- 3D Realms' Duke Nukem 3D
- Midway's Mortal Kombat
- Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- DMA Design (now Rockstar North)'s Grand Theft Auto. Later versions of the game were ported to Windows in order to make it more compatible with modern computers.
- Comanche: Maximum Overkill by NovaLogic used a custom Unreal mode memory manager which required a 80386 processor and was incompatible with memory managers and virtual DOS boxes, requiring a complicated DOS boot menu configuration in the CONFIG.SYS. Later revisions included a DOS extender which solved the problem.
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