I'm sure if you played shareware DOS games such as Keen 1 and 4, you also had these games lying around somewhere. AFAIK, 3DRealms has actually made all four episodes of Pharoah's Tomb, Arctic Adventure, and Monuments of Mars freeware now.
For 10+ years I've had working copies of all these games on a modern PC with DosBox and they've worked fine. However, today I've found that trying to run any of them results in a divide-by-zero error. Attempting to run any of them causes DosBox to drop back to the C:\ prompt and print the following:
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Pharoah's Tomb 1: Runtime error 200 at 10FF:12DB.
Pharoah's Tomb 2: Runtime error 200 at 1105:12DB.
Pharoah's Tomb 3: Runtime error 200 at 10FA:12DB.
Pharoah's Tomb 4: Runtime error 200 at 10FA:12DB.
Arctic Adventure 1: Runtime error 200 at 150D:12DB.
Arctic Adventure 2: Runtime error 200 at 1506:12DB.
Arctic Adventure 3: Runtime error 200 at 1505:12DB.
Arctic Adventure 4: Runtime error 200 at 1509:12DB.
Monuments of Mars 1: Divide error
Monuments of Mars 2: Divide error
Monuments of Mars 3: Divide error
Monuments of Mars 4: Divide error
Does anybody have an idea as to why this may have happened?