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      3 days ago

      Oh yes lol, and those. But they had to up their protection when we just included the scanned manual 😁

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        3 days ago

        my favorites were: at the beginning of the game:

        **Please do not pirate this. We worked hard and could use some money"

        or something like that. The shareware version of Doom got me hooked on FPSes for a good decade though.

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          Oh yes. It even worked. I felt bad if I didn’t pay. But also it wasn’t that easy. For me, back then, only one big shop had games for those rare computers. And it was a 1hr drive with my bike…

          Oh yes…I still know the maps and cheatcodes by memory. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago!