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Ask HN: Which was the first 32bit DOS game?

by DrNosferatu on 9/22/25, 5:58 PM with 4 comments

• by DrNosferatu on 9/23/25, 6:36 PM

  Seems Links 386 Pro beat them to it in 1992.

  “It employs Phar Lap's 386 DOS-Extender 4.1“

  https://lilura1.blogspot.com/2022/02/Links-The-Challenge-of-...

• by wingi on 9/23/25, 3:10 PM

  Watcom C/386 compiler version 7.0 was released in 1989 and was one of the first 32-bit compilers for DOS targeting the 386 CPU.

  Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Sierra) was published 1993 too - Sierra adventure games using Watcom C/386.

• by wingi on 9/23/25, 3:15 PM

  Release date of Gabriel Knight was 1993-11-22, Doom was 1993-12-10.

  Bam.