Uploading the game would be illegal. Please do not do so.
I'm afraid I can't help you. Keep looking for various versions of DOS4GW. I'll check a few of my games to see if they use different versions.

Robo, do you know the system requirements for this game?

386? 486? etc...

By the way, just so you know, we are rapidly approaching the "Nothing More We Can Do" stage.

Nicht, try going through some of your old games to see if you have any versions of DOS/4GW other than 1.97. Same goes to anyone else. As I've got over 300 games, it'll take me quite a while to go through mine, but hopefully some of you all have less.

DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.8
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1992

DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.92
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1993

DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.95
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1993

DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994

Update to DOS/4GW 2.01 at:
http://www.tenberry.com/dos4g/watcom/index.html
The price is just $49 *choke*

Apparently v1.97 was the last "free" version.

At least they have a DOS4/GW FAQ at
http://www.tenberry.com/dos4g/faq/index.htm

Well, freakin' upload some of those old versions! Geeze, do I need to spell it out every time for you, Nicht? 😉

The game isn't sold anymore - It's from 1993.
No readme's, no docs...

Is it OK to upload it to my own server?
And even if you do get to the "nothing to do" stage, thanx for trying 😀

Snover wrote:

Well, freakin' upload some of those old versions! Geeze, do I need to spell it out every time for you, Nicht? 😉

Well..Phbbt. I figured all I had was three and you had the big archive... Here's my pittance....

My big archive is much too large for my measly two CD drives to go through in an efficient manner. If any of your versions work, I won't to go through the arduous and lengthy process of sifting through all my games for DOS/4GW.

Ah well...In that case I guess I've got the big archive. It's just that the majority are rather inaccessible at the moment. I found those three just from a local drive scan. I'm not sure just yet how many versions of DOS4GW there actually were...

heh. I've got all my old games archived on my HD. Working on CloneCD'ing my TONS of windows CD's now.

DosFreak wrote:

heh. I've got all my old games archived on my HD.

Well then, we have another volunteer! Find DOS4G*.* please.

Well I haven't gone through ALL of my games yet but here's some of the ones that I have collected:

1.6
1.95
1.95 (different file size same year)
1.97
1.97 (different file size same year)
2.01a

huh. Where did I get that 2.01a come from? 😮 (Don't say it)

I did find this:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/d … extenders.shtml

Primarily noted these two, as they say they are "drop-in" replacements for DOS4GW:
Pmode/W DOS Extender (link to it's site was broken)
EOS DOS Extender (links to an archive, which apparently must be compiled for use).

Just a little FYI.

Interesting finds. DosFreak, please upload all your DOS/4GW copies in an archived file here. Thaaanks!

None work...
Thanx for trying anyway 😀

Baaaah! You're gonna make me go through mine, aren't you? *grumble* 😉

Only if you REALLY want to 😀

*sigh* Fine...not like I've got anything better to do anyway...

Oh, just a note:
Since we're all looking for different versions of the same file, please download this utility and write MD5 checksums for every version that you find.

So far I've found one version of 1.8, one version of 1.92, two versions of 1.95, three versions of 1.97, and one version of 2.01a. I know I have other copies of DOS/4GW, but they are integrated with the program executable, so I can't give them to you. (That said, those are more than likely duplicates of versions I already have separately.)

Something I found rather interesting: NO Sierra games use the DOS/4GW extender. This is probably because all their games have independent parsers (AGI or SCI), but even LEC's VGA SCUMM parser used DOS/4GW!