The 386 Experience Downloads

All of the files listed here will work on a 386 computer.

1/16/05 - Repaired all of the broken links.

If you have a program that you would like to share with other 386 users, send the zipped file to The 386 Experience.

The 386 Experience does not claim to hold any copyrights on software made available for download. We respect the hard work of the developers of these fine products. The only purpose of this site is to make available games, applications and operating systems for users of 386 computers. Most of the files listed here are no longer sold in retail stores. If you hold the copyrights on any piece of software we make available for download and do not wish to see it distributed here just mail us and we will remove the files in question immediately.

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Operating Systems

Program Name

Description

Minimum Operating System Required

File Size

Click on File Name to Download

Windows 1.01

The First Windows operating system

DOS

663 K

win101.zip

Windows 2.03

The Second Windows operating system

DOS

1310 K

win203.zip

Windows 3.0

The Third Windows operating system

DOS

4380 K

win3.zip

Windows 3.1

A Great Windows operating system

DOS

7040 K

win31.zip

FreeDOS

A DOS alternative operating system

386

11971 K

freedos file directory

Linux

Alternative Operating System

386

Many to choose from

Linux Web Site

Compression Programs

Program Name

Description

Minimum Operating System Required

File Size

Click on File Name to Download

PK Ware 262

Compression utilities for zipping/unzipping programs for Windows 3.1.

386 Win 3.1

666 k

pk262w16.exe

WinZip 3.1

Very useful compression program.

386 Win 3.1

615 k

winzip31.exe

WinRAR

Compression program for .RAR files

386 Win 3.1

923 k

wrar300.exe

WinImage

Compression program for disk image files.

386 Win 3.1

170 K

Download Site

Games

Program Name

Description

Minimum Operating System Required

File Size

Click on File Name to Download

Moraff's Pinball

Basic pinball

386 Win 3.1

71 k

moraffpinball.zip

Pong

Just 2 paddles and a ball

386 DOS

45 K

pong.zip

Yahtzee

Great Game, keeps score for you

386 Win 3.1

24 K

yahtzee.zip

Tanks

Tank battle game

386 Win 3.1

109 K

tankgame.zip

Ms PacMan

It's Ms PacMan

DOS

56 K

mspacman.com

Blockout

Break the bricks game

386 DOS

102 K

blockout.zip

Pac Man

Classic Pac Man game

386 DOS

73 K

pacman.zip

Rally

You drive a car and other cars chase you through a maze

386 DOS

76 K

rally.zip

Tetris

Classic Arcade Game

386 DOS

109 K

tetris.zip

Mortal Pong

Pong with an attitude

386 Win

246 K

mortalpong.zip

Doom 1.9

3D hunt and destroy game

386 Win 3.1

2.46 MB

doom95.zip

Laser Chess

Chess with a few modern weapons

386 Win 3.1

100 K

laserchess.zip

PC Pool Challenge 1984

Very old pool game

386 DOS

75 K

pcpool.exe

3-D PacMan

Play pacman in a strange 3-D world sorta like Doom

386 DOS

24 K

3dpacman.zip

VolleyBall

One on One volleyball game

386 DOS

25 K

volleyball.zip

PC Golf

Text based golf game

386 DOS

28 K

pc-golf.zip

Leisure Suite Larry 1

Join Larry in his pursuits around the neighborhood.

386 DOS

274 K

leisuresuitlarry.zip

Monopoly

The classic game of capitalism.

386 DOS

68 K

monopoly.zip

Sopwith

Fly a biplane and have dogfights

386 DOS

61 K

sopwith.zip

Solitaire

Play cards by yourself.

386 DOS

152 K

solitaire.zip

Tank Wars

Fire tanks at each other.

386 DOS

183 K

tankwars.zip

Tower

Try to climb out of a tower.

386 DOS

106 K

tower.zip

Death Zone

Drive a car around and kill or be killed.

386 DOS

161 K

deathzone.zip

Wolfenstein 3d

The 1st-person shooter that started it all. As the Allies hero, B.J. Blazkowicz, you run around 3D mazes and blast away Nazis until you can find your way out of their fortresses, prisons, and secret laboratories.

386 DOS

711 K

1wolf14.zip

Duke Nukem

The original Duke Nukem.

386 DOS

306 K

1duke.zip

Billy

Cool program that creates an imaginary person to talk with in text format. Sort of like artificial intellegence. Billy learns as you talk to him.

DOS

227 K

billy.zip

Spider-Man

One dimensional game where you are Spider-Man. Resembles old Duke Nukem games.

DOS

114 K

spiderman.zip

Ground War

Its the USA vs Iraq in a ground war with tanks. Overhead one dimensional view of a battlefield. One or two person games.

DOS

106 K

tanksa.zip

Win Tetris

Very small simple tetris game.

Win 3.1

16 K

tetris.exe

Joust

Its the classic arcade video game. You are on a flying horse jousting.

DOS

49 K

joust.zip

Pong 3K

The best Pong game I have seen. Very authentic game play. Two person games or you against the computer.

Win 3.1

8 K

pong3k.zip

Applications

Program Name

Description

Minimum Operating System Required

File Size

Click on File Name to Download

Word for Windows 1.1

Classic Microsoft word processing program

386 Win

4180 k

WFW11.zip

Excel 4

Classic Microsoft spreadsheet program

386 Win

6060 k

excel4.zip

LapLink 3

Program for linking your laptop to your desktop computer.

386 Win

77 k

laplink3.exe

Spreadsheet

Simple Spreadsheet Program

386 Win 3.1

941 K

sphygmic.zip

FaxMail

Send/Receive faxes through your computer and fax modem.

386 Win 3.1

945 K

fax_v924.zip

Winbar

Customizable Tool Bar for Win 3.1, looks like Win 95/98

386 Win 3.1

177 K

Download Site

Calmira

Customizable Tool Bar for Win 3.1, looks like Win 95/98

386 Win 3.1

662 K

Download Site

Webford HTML Editor

Great HTML Editor

386 Win 3.1

1071 K

webford.zip

Thinking Man's Thesaurus

Thesaurus Reference

386 Win 3.1

810 K

ththes12.zip

WordWeb Dictionary/Thesaurus

Great reference

386 Win 3.1

3700 K

Download site

Microsoft Publisher 2.0

Desktop publishing program.

386 Win 3.1

6440 K

pub2.zip

WinDOS

Utility for Windows 3.1 that allows the user a choice to stay in DOS by touching any key while booting windows.

Win 3.1

33 K

windos.zip

Talk

Very cool program that has two applications in one. One is Talk which will "speak" through your speakers in several possible "voices" what you type into a notepad-type screen. The other application is called DocTalk which will read any Windows text document to you. There are two zip files for this program. After downloading them, unzip each of them into one folder.

Win 3.1

303 K

talk.zip


talkdll.zip

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