 Experienced Doom players will recognize this area as Map 4 from episode 1 of the original Doom. You run into this dark area, the walls recede into the floor, and there's this odd shape here on the floor. Here it is on the map. I'm using ZDoom to record this, which gives the automap this odd paper-like color. And I'm using Fraps to record it. OBS can't do it. My computer was built in 2011 and doesn't have the hardware to use the native Windows 10 game recording. And since I upgraded to Windows 10 a couple of months ago, my Avermedia Live game reportable doesn't work at all. So I'm stuck recording ZDoom with Fraps, which works fine. But ZDoom gives the old WOD files updated graphics and sound, which doesn't give you the authentic original look or feel. Anyway, every time I play this level and go into this room, I expect to see this shape on the floor to look like a swastika. I remember it being a swastika. But every time I've gone back and played the old original Doom, I never see the swastika. So earlier this year, I decided I'm going to find out why I remember there being a swastika. So I went online and downloaded the shareware Doom WOD, but it's not there. In fact, you're looking at the shareware right now, or rather the shareware that you find online. So I'm thinking, where did I see a swastika? How did I see a swastika? Where could I have possibly seen it if it's not in the shareware and then I remembered? I still have this on my shelf, the original boxed, registered version of Doom. But more importantly than that, I also have the original boxed shareware. And in that shareware box are the two floppies. So I want to install the version of Doom that's on these floppies, but how do I do it? Well, getting the content off of the floppies is easy enough. I have this USB floppy drive, which works great. Windows automatically recognizes it as drive A and everything. But that's not the same thing as getting this old DOS installer to work. DOSbox can't see this USB floppy drive. So you copy the contents of these two floppies into directories on your hard drive and have DOSbox run the installer from there. But when the installer asks you to switch to the floppy, there's no way to do it. So I'm thinking I take the two halves of the WOD file from these two floppies and try to merge them somehow. And I go online and I find a way to do it. There's actually a DOS command you can use to merge two halves of a compressed WOD file. Although right now I can't remember it and I can't for the life of me remember where or how I found it online. Anyway, it worked. But the resulting WOD file didn't look like it was big enough. At the time, earlier this year, I was using chocolate Doom and it wouldn't load. So I was thinking, well, the merging process didn't work. The WOD file is no good. It's somehow broken. I was about to give up and then I thought, wait a minute. Why don't I try the original executable from these floppies combined with this WOD file in DOSbox? And here's what happened. It started right up. There's no music, but the game plays and there's sound effects. So here we go. Map 4. You go into the dark room. The walls go down and there's your swastika. There it is. Plain as day. And now here it is on the auto map. My memory was correct. All these years, more than two decades, I've never heard anyone mention this. I've never seen anyone on the internet write about it. But you search the phrase, shareware, doom, swastika. You will find an explanation of it on the Doom Wiki under a trivia section. Sharp Eye viewers will note that this swastika is actually backwards. The arms are croaking to the left instead of the right. Why? I don't know. I recorded this with my Avermedia Live game reportable when I was still using Windows 7 a few months ago. Nothing else will record DOSBox, not Fraps, not OBS. While playing this early shareware version, playing map 1 specifically, I discovered something else. You know how you run through the hallway which triggers a secret elevator that takes you through a secret corridor up in the ceiling? Here it is. You all know it. Well, in the swastika shareware, that secret ain't there. I had already played Doom all the way through. Then a friend of mine was showing me how he used the no clipping cheat to get into this secret corridor in map 1 and I was like, wait a minute. I was really surprised because I knew all the secrets. This discovery solves that little mystery. I didn't know it was there because when I first played it, it wasn't there. So there you have it. The original original shareware Doom.