If the game only works with the controller, then what you do is make the 'pack in' game free on the app store, and label it 'Requires the controller, sold separately'.

Or it's possible to have a voucher that redeems for a specific title. I think that's how Skylanders for iOS does it, and that requires custom hardware to work.

You forgot Windows 2000, which was pretty good.

Oh wait, that was immediately followed by XP. Which was immediately followed by MCE, which was also decent.

Oops.

Kensington still makes finger-controlled trackballs. I use an ExpertMouse myself; they also have one called the Blade.

Why they call a trackball a mouse, I've never been able to figure out.

Blackberry 10 can already run Android apps. It's not as simple as using the Play Store on an android, but if I have an .apk file I can convert it into a .bar and load it onto my Q10. Some things don't work, of course - in particular, the square screen with no 'portrait' and 'landscape' mode seems to break things - but many do.

BB doesn't intend for users to do this. It's for their app store - if you have an Android app it's pretty trivial to repackage it as a .bar and sell it BB's store.

What revenue stream?

The adapters are included with the cards.

Because they can be set to drive the DVI port in HDMI mode, even if there's no adapter there.

Which would confuse the everloving fuck out of an actual DVI monitor on the other end of that cable.

Seriously, why is this even an issue? If you want HDMI out on an AMD video card, USE THE HDMI PORT.

They all have them. Many of them have multiples. Hell, mine has DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, and Mini DisplayPort, and it wasn't even an expensive card.

'But what if I want to use two HDMI monitors!?' Then plug the one you want the SOUND to come out of into the HDMI port.

You'd really have to be reaching for an off-the-wall situation to come up with a need to serve multiple HDMI audio streams from a video card.

If that's what you really want to do, use a camera that isn't an electronic device.

They do make them. They use this really neat non-electric technology called 'film'. You can even get one that doesn't take batteries at all, if you don't need a flash!

The DSi hasn't gotten one in a while as far as I can tell, and when it does it's mostly to break the Flash carts that let you illegally copy games. However, it's not particularly pushy about installing them, and unless you buy things from the Nintendo Shop on it there's never really a reason to update the OS.

The 3DS seems to get them fairly frequently, but they do seem to add features, not just futz with copy protection.

You mean like how you can theoretically play games offline but sometimes it just doesn't work and you're sitting there unable to play any of your games?

Y'know, like it did to me earlier today.

I can still just put a disc in my 360 or PS3 and play it when the network's down.

Steam's offline mode isn't anything even close to reliable.

The actual content only fills about a third of my browser's width.

Worthless.

Was it possible to purchase a computer in the '90s without getting Myst with it?

Try Serious Sam.

The last level of Serious Sam 3 has more enemies shooting at you than the entire Call of Duty series combined.

It is a great system. It's a fantastic system.

I used to work at a library ages ago, and that's generally the system we used. We might keep a donated book, if we thought there was demand for it, but it was rare.

Because we didn't want to waste shelf space on random books people didn't want any more. Libraries generally have a pretty good idea of what books are in demand by their patrons, and selling books that won't ever be leant out lets them get books people actually want.

Not much seemed to support the mouse. I picked up the mouse much later, when it was very cheap, and the only game I had that worked with it was Discworld.

Alas, I had the initial release of Discworld. Which had a bug: You couldn't save the game. At all. How in hell did THAT ever get past QA?

The Playstation controller did not have move/strafe - change view sticks.

It didn't have any sticks AT ALL.

It had a D-pad and some buttons. No analog sticks.

Compared to that, the N64 pad's analog stick was a godsend.

Sony didn't come out with the Dual Analog controller until after the N64's pad was out.