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    What were the most advanced games that worked with DOS? Pentium and 16MB+ memory required games?

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    Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire comes to mind. it requires a pentium as well as at least 16MB of ram. then again it is a DOS game released in 1997 after it was pretty much superseded by windows95

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    "The game requires a DOS emulator in order to be run on modern operating systems. However, given that it is one of the most resource-demanding DOS games ever released commercially, as of 2009 the emulation overhead causes even relatively modern PCs to run the game sluggishly in an emulator."

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    Quake, Tomb Raider and Carmageddon had rather steep requirements: 100mhz, 8-16mb ram. Could run on less but not well. Even more steep if you consider their 3DFX mode, since they'd need a Voodoo card that way.
    Prost Grand Prix 1998 is another I've heard, think it was only in Germany but had steep requirements for DOS, about the highest I'd seen.
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    Bethesda's SkyNET, maybe?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyNET

    Like Battlespire, it also uses this XnGine engine.
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    Chasm: The Rift also is pretty demanding. It will run on pre-pentium/K6 hardware, but not that great at all.
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