Notices by Kris (ashortbusvet@mastodon.social)

@dosnostalgic Ah, sorry.

@dosnostalgic At the time my wife & I were stationed in Brunswick, Maine. Wasn't much there at the time that carried any sort of tech, much less shareware CD's.

@dosnostalgic Or you went to a dark, shady place on IRC somewhere & traded a copy for whatever you had that others might have wanted.

I did eventually pay for Quake later on, I should point out. At the time, however, that was difficult to do on a military E2 paycheck.

@dosnostalgic Could be the best DOS thing in the world, but if it takes weeks to download most won't bother. Fluctuating over here between 300k-2MB/sec for the last 8 hours, & I'm on a gig fiber connection.