Well, Futureshop does ship early for me - so it will arrive on release day. Though, I'd probably just pick it up in store from Futureshop to avoid shipping charges.

Still jealous that Amazon ships early for you guys...

Mine's not up for a while yet. Let's keep the bus going guys. I've got an appointment!

Wonder why Amazon.ca doesn't do that. They only ship ON release day... at best. They usually ship a few days after release.

Amazon ships stuff to arrive release day? Damn... must be some US only thing or something. The best I've ever gotten was the friday of release week. Typically it's the following Monday.

Neat. I'm in it for the $200 so now to find something to photograph for half an hour..

That was weird. The Amazon.ca link wasn't showing up a Prime-eligible until I clicked around a bit... then it suddenly showed up.

Man, I joined up in the second half of 2003... can't believe it's been that long! Edit: Huh, maybe not. Looks like I joined a month and a half before. I think I remember the april fool's joke from that year when the CIC went paywall...

Wow, that was a pretty "meh" launch. I think Microsoft should've just saved everyone's time and announced it at E4 ("Expensive" E3). Let the hype build some, then run releases all week to steal thunder away from the PS4. Because what we saw today was... OK. Nothing really wowed me. That being...

The soundblaster was a Yamaha OPL2 (FM synth, like Adlib) and a DAC, and both were combined together in an analog mixer prior to the output amplifiers. Sounds are basically very simple devices - they're just the audio chips wired straight to the ISA bus, with a tiny amount of logic gates to...

Yeah. The adapters usually have a spot on the circuit board for an optional NES001 chip as well (this was the way NIntendo prevented third parties from making clone games that lead to the game crash a couple of years earlier). Of course, the joke really is the spring contacts on the NES were a...

Just like NES and Famicom - they were different cartridge shapes and connector sizes, but basically the same console. Though the Famicom lacks the NES001 chip. I have a few of those adapters, and one of my carts actually has the adapter built inside the cart.

Humble Bundle tends to be DRM free, mostly. They did run a DRM'd one (THQ bundle) but that was the exception rather than the rule. It's not all the time, and you're in luck as they're in the middle of another one. http://www.humblebundle.com/

The only Android versions are the ones for tablets running a Tegra 3 (e.g., Nexus 7) or the Sony Xperia Play. There are no versions for general Android devices.

*whistles* (see external links). :P

Ah. that's it. BaSS was made available for SCUMMVM a decade ago. http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky

BaSS has been free on GoG for a LONG time now - I think it was one of their freebies since they officially launched. I believe Sierra made it free a few years before GoG - it was one of the freely available games for the Sierra Game Engine emulator years before that as well. Name escapes me at...

Explains the forced DRM stuff. After all, I've downloaded plenty of DRM-free eBooks from Barnes and Noble... Though I have to admit, I sort of suspected it was Amazon.

I'm taking you're referring to the Karen Traviss books (Glasslands, The Thursday War)? I have them, but haven't gotten around to reading them (I'm actually doing the Greg Bear ones, which are the Forerunner saga).

Spartan Ops maybe, but that's about it. Though I'm kinda of a lone wolf.