Where to download Chex Quest

[Atariangamer]

the CD should still work tho...hmm...

[ChexCommander]

It should work in terms of installation...

I think he meant he was trying to install from DOSBox maybe?

[Atariangamer]

AH. There's your problem.

Install normaly, then direct DOSBox to C:\CHEX to play.

[Aroenai]

ALSO, chex.exe is a 16-bit program. in those days it really wasn't a DOS/WIN type thing. Once 32-bit came in, it started getting to a DOS/WIN thing. I have a 16-bit version of M$Office (called Office 4), and the 32-bit version was Office 95. you could run several 16-bit programs both ways, though certain ones could only go Windows. In 32-bit programs, it was just only windows.

No, chex.exe is a MS-DOS program that has an embedded DOS/4GW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4GW) loader. The DOS/4GW loader is a 16-bit program that switches the processor into protected mode (32-bit) and loads the program into memory to begin execution, essentially it adds 32-bit capabilities to DOS. You can actually replace DOS/4GW with a newer loader called DOS/32 (http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html) if you wanted, and it makes the game run a little better in Dosbox.

As far as I know, DOS/4GW came before 32-bit versions of Windows and the original Doom used it as well. Sorry, the computer networking major in me wanted to clear that up.

[Atariangamer]

O_o ok...

I knew about DOS/4GW, but how did you know it was embeded? (did i miss somethin?)

and DOS/4GW came before 32bit windows, yes. But I dont know if DooM used it. Doom had problems running in Win95 in some cases (hence the Doom 2 for Windows 95 package), so I dont think it had a dos loader like that.

[TheMasterOfBattle]

Wow, I just looked at the board stats, and the Chex Quest is available for download thread has almost 22 thousand views.   It would have the most views on the forum if it weren't for The "EVIL" Game.

[ChexCommander]

Wow, I just looked at the board stats, and the Chex Quest is available for download thread has almost 22 thousand views.   It would have the most views on the forum if it weren't for The "EVIL" Game.

Curse you, Dvader!!!!

[Aroenai]

I knew about DOS/4GW, but how did you know it was embeded? (did i miss somethin?)

and DOS/4GW came before 32bit windows, yes. But I dont know if DooM used it. Doom had problems running in Win95 in some cases (hence the Doom 2 for Windows 95 package), so I dont think it had a dos loader like that.

You can see the DOS/4GW text when you load the game, also DOS/32's installer identifies it as DOS/4GW (run sb -r chex.exe).

EDIT:
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Versions_of_Doom_and_Doom_II

v1.1

    * Released December 16, 1993.
    * The first registered release of Doom.
    * First appearance of gamma correction, which is either on or off.
    * A more stable version of the DOS extender (DOS/4GW).
    * Sound Blaster 1.0 support.
    * Textual changes:

        * At the text screen of Knee-Deep in the Dead "buy" is changed to "play" in the final sentence.
        * The "This version is NOT SHAREWARE, do not distribute!" text was added, to be shown with the registered version.
        * Many more, including capitalization, spelling corrections and additional error messages.

    * Serial mode multiplayer was added.
    * The command line parameters -send and -receive were added.

[ChexCommander]

@'MOB: I don't see 22 thousand.....the shot in the arm has about 1100 more posts, and it has 3 thousand...you might have looked at the thread wrong?

[TheMasterOfBattle]

@'MOB: I don't see 22 thousand.....the shot in the arm has about 1100 more posts, and it has 3 thousand...you might have looked at the thread wrong?

[The Slimeinator]

@'MOB: I don't see 22 thousand.....the shot in the arm has about 1100 more posts, and it has 3 thousand...you might have looked at the thread wrong?

He means Chex Quest 3 is Available for Download, which is basically... not gellin' to the tune of this thread.

[ChexCommander]

Oh, there...heh.

@'MOB: I don't see 22 thousand.....the shot in the arm has about 1100 more posts, and it has 3 thousand...you might have looked at the thread wrong?

He means Chex Quest 3 is Available for Download, which is basically... not gellin' to the tune of this thread.

Well, that's what it was gellin' to before Chukker uploaded Ben(s)on's musicz into da game. 

[Manny Cav]

I'm bumping this topic with updates to the first post, listing where you can download the various versions of Chex Quest.