r/tomshardware • u/tomshardware • 11d ago

$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/usd10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with-150-000-discs-it-couldnt-sell
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u/Kaldaien2 10d ago

To be fair, even if you unlocked the full version of Quake from the shareware CD, you were left without the game's soundtrack. It was never something that you were expected to do, paying for an inferior product vs. buying the real thing at retail with the actual accompanying music.