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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:17:36 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Happy 30th Birthday to the *shareware* version of DOOM! 🎉🎂🎈🍾🥂
   Uploaded to the FTP server at the University of Wisconsin on December 10th 1993.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:20:52 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     $40 back then is about $84 today.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:28:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Original DOOM shareware De-ice installer and notes for a sysop:
     #DOSGaming

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:38:35 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Eliot Lash

     @Eliot_L That's fine with me. I'm incapable of describing things.

   • Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 18:38:37 UTC Eliot Lash

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     @dosnostalgic #Alt4You
     1: Doom splash screen showing doomguy shooting guns
     2: Starting area of E1M1: Hangar level
     3: Shareware upsell screen advertising additional episodes for $40 with screenshots of new game content and ordering hotline number
     4: Pre-quit screen berating player for not ordering Doom

     Thanks for the great content. Please consider adding alt text to your images in the future. It helps keep the fedi accessible and many people including me won't boost without it!

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 19:48:03 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
     • Eliot Lash

     @HauntedOwlbear @Eliot_L I understand, and I understood this about Mastodon when I joined. I can describe text paragraph on a background, but anything more than that sends me into a small panic. Just for the sake of my own comfort this is a hit I knew I would have to take with the community. I don't see it changing either.

   • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 19:48:04 UTC 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Eliot Lash

     @dosnostalgic, thanks for the post and @Eliot_L, thanks for the descriptions!

     I appreciate the image descriptions†, and also that some people can't do them, so boosting both posts works okay for me.

     †because my uncorrected vision is terrible, many of my mutuals are blind, and I read fedi on a text mode device

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 19:50:49 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
     • Eliot Lash

     @HauntedOwlbear @Eliot_L This applies in real life too. I just can't describe things, and I often don't even remember visual details. I've lived at the address I currently reside in since 2009, and I couldn't tell you what color my house is. 🤷♂️

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 20:05:40 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
     • Eliot Lash

     @HauntedOwlbear @Eliot_L No, no. I was just expanding on my originally brief reply. I couldn't remember if I ever expressed this on here before, and it's probably better if I put it in writing.

   • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 20:05:41 UTC 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Eliot Lash

     @dosnostalgic
     I hope I didn't accidentally make you feel that I was demanding alt text!

     I was trying to get across that I know you can't do it, and that's okay, while thanking @Eliot_L for their supplied text.