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I think it's mostly just download time. Didn't take long for me.

Oh, do you mean between game areas? I didn't actually play it yet!

Yes, the load times between levels are super fast. I remember waiting for perhaps 30 seconds when playing the game on my PC in 1997.

Also, I would've sworn that the shareware version included the Butcher on level 2. It doesn't...

I had a shareware version that did, and I know this for a fact because I never played the full version and still remember facing him.

i played diablo shareware with my friends in 1997 on our school pcs. I still remember us beating the butcher in shareware.

The Butcher isn't a guaranteed quest on every playthrough, maybe that's also true of the Shareware version?