[rvanmil]

I fondly remember playing Doom with my brother. Our dad had made a serial cable for us. One of us was playing on the PC and the other one on a laptop with a grey scale display and terrible ghosting. We had so much fun and it felt like magic indeed :)

[bentcorner]

My dad had a similar laptop. Playing video games on it was pretty trippy with all the ghosting.

Back then a cousin and I found a cheat exe on some BBS that gave you infinite ammo in Doom 2, it also gave us a virus (Michaelangelo, I think?). My dad somehow disassembled the exe to remove the virus so we could keep our infinite ammo cheat. I'm spoiled - I would struggle to do the same without online resources.

[aidos]

In the original Doom you could use IDKFA and IDDQD for infinite ammo and godmode (from memory!)

[bombcar]

IDSPISPOPD!

Got it right!

Back then cheat codes were hard to find, especially if you found doom on shareware floppies and didn’t have BBS access to the DooM FAQ.

[hulitu]

> Back then cheat codes were hard to find,

And a couple of years later we had dlh.net

[jonathanlydall]

IDKFA: I Did Kill Fucking Alien

[rezaprima]

I think it's id-Key-Full-Ammo