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A near-comprehensive collection of DOS/4GW memory extenders.
This compilation is dated 2002-08-22 and was released for Very Old Games On New Systems <www.vogons.org>.
DOS/4GW was distributed with Watcom C++ to "break the 640K memory barrier" so that programs larger than 640KB could be run in DOS. Several versions of the program were released during the lifetime of DOS. This collection is meant to provide as many versions of the DOS/4GW executable as possible, because often times certain versions packaged with certain games will crash on some systems while other versions will not. The most common version of DOS/4GW is version 1.97, released in this package as 1_97_2.EXE.
Versions 1.6 and 1.9 were provided by DosFreak. All other versions were provided by Colin Snover.
Do you have a version of the DOS/4GW extender that is not listed here? Would you like to contribute it? If so, please visit <www.vogons.org> and let us know!
The MD5 checksum program used to verify the different versions of DOS/4GW was created by 3L Software and can be found at <iay.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/threel/tech/tools/md5.htm>.
Another program that can be used to check MD5 checksums (with source code) and that supports long file names can be found at <langfine.com/rsa_md5.htm>.
The CRC32 checksum program used to verify the different versions of DOS/4GW was created by Big-O Software and can be found at <big-o-software.com/hksfv32-overviewfeatures.php>.
WinRAR was used to package these files at a 39% greater compression ratio than could be achieved using standard ZIP archiving. (1.31MB for ZIP vs. only 372KB for RAR)
DOS/4GW is copyright © 1990-1997 Tenberry Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
All versions of the DOS/4GW runtime files contained herein were obtained from software created using Watcom C++.
MD5 checksums (also available separately in DOS4GW.MD5):1_6.EXE = 4716107431eb3bf2e054770a496ae84f1_8.EXE = a63c63f62dadba7163776fbc32ce3fe31_9.EXE = 3ec2f6e3f1ade4e21143cfeff7a4c0cb1_92.EXE = a75fdc120ae2fbb4cb2fd9e7b6a948581_95.EXE = 498c3f0c7bc7a9206a7b1b049f0c32341_95_2.EXE = 15ff24d641ba6ad318362935147bc2fb1_97.EXE = 006211ca60fa3d4b38a9a8da2ade10561_97_2.EXE = ee4033581845b3b8d28c4b7287eb4fc21_97_3.EXE = fd90468391ade7feb178340c44877e932_01A.EXE = ba53625d50570fa897134d57f2da649cCRC32 checksums (also available separately in DOS4GW.SFV):1_6.EXE = 0x099EFB691_8.EXE = 0x323764221_9.EXE = 0x7DD43C8B1_92.EXE = 0xC8E3CF7D1_95.EXE = 0x95D35B4D1_95_2.EXE = 0x3B750E061_97.EXE = 0x5CC34B0F1_97_2.EXE = 0xCB2144471_97_3.EXE = 0xEA7106EB2_01a.EXE = 0xA47C6A1F