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I never quite grasped how that shareware check worked. Always thought the WAD file was what you bought, not the engine/executable itself?

From doomstat.h line 60: // Game Mode - identify IWAD as shareware, retail etc. extern GameMode_t gamemode;

I haven't done a deep dive on the code, but it looks like gamemode is set based on something in the WAD file.