List of programs that require EMS

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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
Aladdin 1993 Disney / Virgin Does not work EMS allocation error
Blackthorne 1994 Interplay / Blizzard Does not work At least 2048k of EMS is required
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

Other programs