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| Blackthorne || 1994 || Interplay / Blizzard || Does not work || At least 2048k of EMS is required | | Blackthorne || 1994 || Interplay / Blizzard || Does not work || At least 2048k of EMS is required | ||
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| − | | Monster Bash || 1993 || Apogee / 3D Realms || Digital sounds do not play (music | + | | Lemmings 2: The Tribes || 1993 || DMA Design / Psygnosis || Digital sounds do not play (music works) || No Expanded Memory Manager found; FX Failed to Load |
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| + | | Monster Bash || 1993 || Apogee / 3D Realms || Digital sounds do not play (music works) || Sound Blaster sounds require 100K bytes of EMS memory | ||
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| Sid & Al's Incredible Toons || 1993 || Sierra / Dynamix || Does not work || You need 737280 free bytes of EMS memory | | Sid & Al's Incredible Toons || 1993 || Sierra / Dynamix || Does not work || You need 737280 free bytes of EMS memory | ||
Revision as of 16:38, 20 July 2018
This is a list of known programs that require Expanded Memory (EMS) in DOS, in the sense that they other do not run at all, or have important features not working when EMS is unavailable. Running these programs requires an EMS board, a chipset with built-in EMS support, or an EMS device driver, such as EMM386 or JEMM386.
Games
| Title | Year | Publisher | Problem | Error message |
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| Aladdin | 1993 | Disney / Virgin | Does not work | EMS allocation error |
| Blackthorne | 1994 | Interplay / Blizzard | Does not work | At least 2048k of EMS is required |
| Lemmings 2: The Tribes | 1993 | DMA Design / Psygnosis | Digital sounds do not play (music works) | No Expanded Memory Manager found; FX Failed to Load |
| Monster Bash | 1993 | Apogee / 3D Realms | Digital sounds do not play (music works) | Sound Blaster sounds require 100K bytes of EMS memory |
| Sid & Al's Incredible Toons | 1993 | Sierra / Dynamix | Does not work | You need 737280 free bytes of EMS memory |
| The Incredible Machine 2 | 1994 | Sierra / Dynamix | Does not work | You need 262144 free bytes of EMS memory |
